Michel Fourniret, 78, (pictured) has slipped into a coma and is on the verge of deathThe French serial killer who murdered up to 30 young women and girls including British student Joanna Parrish died in a hospital intensive care ward at the age of 79 today. Fourniret has admitted kidnapping, raping and murdering 11 girls and young women over a 14-year period from 1987, and is thought to be behind up to 21 more killings. They included Joanna, a 20-year-old Leeds University language student who was killed in Burgundy countryside in eastern France in May 1990. Last year, analysts found forensic traces of two other Fourniret victims - nine-year-old Estelle Mouzin and 18-year-old Céline Saison - on a mattress belonging to the murderer's sister. This list exclusively concerns girls or young women, aged 10 to 39, who mysteriously disappeared or were murdered between 1987 and 2003 in 17 departments, the French equivalent of counties.

Source: Daily Mail May 10, 2021 14:29 UTC