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== Death ==
== Death ==
Louis died on 21st October 2013.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24605535 | title=France serial killer Emile Louis dead | publisher=BBC News | accessdate=20th October 2013}}</ref>
Louis died on 20th October 2013.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24605535 | title=France serial killer Emile Louis dead | publisher=BBC News | accessdate=20th October 2013}}</ref>


==External links==
==External links==

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Émile Louis (January 21, 1934 - October 20, 2013[1]) was a French bus driver and the prime suspect in the disappearance of seven young women in the département of Yonne, Burgundy, in the late 1970s. In 2000 Louis confessed to their murders; he retracted this confession one month later.

Disappearances

Louis was a prime suspect in the disappearances in the Yonne Département of seven young women with mild mental deficiencies between 1975 and 1980. The disappearances initially did not attract much attention, as the girls had no close relatives and lived in homes for the handicapped; it was assumed that they had simply run away.[2]

In 1992, Pierre Charrier, the head of the Yonne APAJH association managing the home for handicapped young people where the missing girls had been staying, was sentenced to six years in prison for raping a 23-year-old handicapped woman.[3]

Death

Louis died on 20th October 2013.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Le tueur en série Emile Louis est mort", le Parisien, Oct. 20 2013
  2. ^ "French serial killer given life", BBC.co.uk, Nov. 26 2004
  3. ^ "Serial killer's confession leads to trail of care home abuses", The Guardian, Dec. 31 2000
  4. ^ "France serial killer Emile Louis dead". BBC News. Retrieved 20th October 2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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