CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES, France, March 28 (UPI) -- A jury heard chilling tales of a cold-blooded sexual predator and "virgin hunter" as accused serial killer Michel Fourniret went on trial in France.
Fourniret, 65, is on trial in the French Ardennes region charged with raping and killing seven girls and women, ranging in age from 12 to 21 since 1987.
Fourniret's wife, Monique Olivier, 59, is also on trial, charged with one killing and allegedly helping lure four other victims.
Jurors were told how Olivier would gain the confidence of the girls and women they had identified as prey, the Times of London reported Friday. After the victims had been bound, gagged and sometimes drugged by her husband, she would examine them to check whether they were the virgins he desired.
She would then hand them over to Fourniret "in the sole aim of allowing him to fulfill his fantasies," a report read in court said. He would assault his victims -- his "beautiful little subjects" -- before shooting or strangling them, the report by investigating magistrates said.
