[Murder Cases here are usually filed in the name of the perpetrator, or the lead perpetrator. If the case remains unsolved or with several killers, the case may be filed in the name of the victim]
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FOSTER, CHRISTOPHER: Crimes That Shook Britain TV - Mail online - Cutting Edge: The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion TV -
In the summer of 2008 as the August Bank Holiday draws to a close a family return home from a friend's barbecue. Hours later all three members of the family would be dead and their mansion completely engulfed in flames. Crimes that Shook Britain s4e5: Christopher Foster, CI 2013
All was not as it seemed with Foster and his finances ... His business was struggling and bills were mounting up. ibid.
He had shot his wife Jill before crossing the hall to Kirsty’s room and turning the gun on her. ibid.
Millionaire Christopher Foster murdered his wife Jill and daughter Kirstie, 15, before committing suicide, a coroner ruled yesterday.
Mr Foster shot his family and their pet dogs and horses before setting his £1.2 million mansion ablaze in August last year. Earlier, the court had been shown the last actions of Mr Foster, caught on CCTV security cameras on the night of the blaze, as he walked around the grounds of his home in Oswestry, Shropshire, carrying what is thought to be a bucket, a rifle and a battery pack in preparation for setting the fire.
It also heard how Kirstie had spent the final moments before her death texting a friend, with no indication of the horror that lay ahead.
So what drove Mr Foster to end their lives? Mail online article Roger Graef 4th April 2009, ‘Revealed: Why millionaire Christopher Foster slaughtered his family’
August Bank Holiday weekend 2008: A millionaire and his family are missing after their country estate was burnt down in an arson attack. In the days that followed the burnt-out ruins of Osbaston House began to give up its secrets. Cutting Edge: The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion, Channel 4 2009
The gates were deliberately blocked by a horse box; its tyres had been shot out. ibid.
‘An investigation into the fire, which is believed to have been started deliberately, has been launched. Christopher Foster, his wife Jillian, and teenage daughter Kirsty remain unaccounted for.’ ibid. rozzer’s statement
‘He was in some significant financial difficulty.’ ibid. rozzer
‘We believe Mr Foster took his own life after setting the house alight.’ ibid.
Disturbing aspect of Chris’s personality started to emerge. ibid.
FOSTER, KENNETH: I Am a Killer TV -
Since the reintroduction of the death penalty in the US in 1976 more than 8,000 people have been sentenced to death. I am a Killer s1e1: Killer in the Eyes of the Law: Kenneth Foster, caption, Netflix 2018
‘I was convicted for capital murder and I was sentenced to death in 1997.’ ibid. Foster
In 1996 Kenneth Foster was involved in a fatal shooting in San Antonio, Texas. He was given the death penalty despite never firing a shot. ibid. caption
In 2006 the shooter, Mauriceo Brown, was executed by lethal injection. ibid.
Kenneth Foster was convicted under the Texas law of parties which states that anybody whoo is a ‘party’ to a crime can also be held responsible for it. ibid.
FOURNIET, SCOTT: People Magazine Investigates TV -
It’s a story about a mother’s fight for justice: this is a mother who would not let her daughter [Joyce McLain] be forgotten. And that for forty years she pressured the police to make sure that the spotlight was still on this investigation and the truth would finally be found out. People Magazine Investigates s3e8, ID 2020
Scott [Fournier] was also fixated on Joyce … He confessed to his pastor. ibid.
FOURNIRET, MICHEL & MONIQUE OLIVIER: Ogre of the Ardennes TV - The Telegraph online - Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil 2023 -
For forty years he pursued his prey. With each crime he ratcheted up the violence. His wife helped to lure his victims. Murder was his ultimate thrill. He relentlessly stalked young girls disposing of their bodies in Belgium and France. Ogre of the Ardennes, Crime Channel
Gaston finally left the family in 1954. Michel adored his mother, but their relationship may have been abnormally close. ibid.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison ... The years in prison did not rehabilitate Fourniret. ibid.
Over the past forty years he’d attacked and raped dozens of young girls. And he’d kidnapped and murdered at least seven women. ibid.
Monique [wife] had been an accomplice to most of Forniret’s crimes. ibid.
Police are still investigating the unsolved murders of Joanna Parrish and Farida Hammiche. Fourniret is suspected in the disappearances of at least nine other women. ibid.
His wife was sentenced to 28 years with no possibility of parole for helping to lure his victims.
In one of the most disturbing trials France has witnessed in recent years, prosecutors described Fourniret, 66, and Monique Olivier, 59, as ‘a devil with two faces’ and ‘inhuman and cruel criminals, the likes of which our country could have never imagined.’
Their killing spree lasted from 1987 to 2001, in which seven girls and young women between 12 and 22 were shot, strangled or stabbed to death with a screwdriver.
The pair face another trial – possibly later this year – as police investigate their alleged role in the rape and murder of three other women, including the British teaching assistant, Joanna Parrish, killed near Auxerre in 1990.
The Leeds University student’s naked body was found floating in a river. She had been raped and strangled after answering an advert placed in a newspaper by a man seeking English lessons for his son. The Telegraph online article Henry Samuel 28th May 2008, ‘Michel Fourniret jailed for life over Ardennes sex murders’