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Émile Louis: the body of an eighth alleged victim could be found
Émile Louis: the body of an eighth alleged victim could be found
(France 2)
Searches were launched on Tuesday, September 24, in Yonne, to try to find the remains of Marie-Jeanne Ambroisine Coussin, a mother who could be the eighth victim of serial killer Émile Louis.
Is the body of Marie-Jeanne Ambroisine Coussin in a forest in Rouvray (Yonne), in Burgundy? Since Tuesday, September 24, excavations have been underway at the site where the skull of this mother was found in 2018. She could be the eighth potential victim of serial killer Émile Louis. The criminal, who died in 2013, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of seven women.
One of Marie-Jeanne Ambroisine Coussin’s children hopes to finally begin to mourn. Jacques Ponce, her son, hopes to finally give her a burial.
In the 1970s, Émile Louis was a bus driver. It was in this context that he met his future victims, exclusively women suffering from mental disabilities. He is said to have killed at least seven of them, aged between 15 and 27, but only two of them have been found. The new investigations in the Rouvray woods also fuel the hope of finding other possible victims. The searches are due to continue until the end of next week.