# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emile-louis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:38:04.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emile-louis"
name: "Émile Louis"
slug: "emile-louis"
description: "Émile Louis was a French bus driver and the prime suspect in the disappearance of seven young women in the Yonne department, Burgundy, in the late 1970s. He confessed to their murders in 2000, but retracted this confession one month later. Louis was sentenced to life in prison by the cour d'assises of Yonne in 2004. The sentence, which was upheld on appeal in 2006, was confirmed by the Court of Cassation in 2007."
tagline: "Serial killer (1934-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C3%89mile_Louis_proc%C3%A8s_mars_2004.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1934-01-26"
deathDate: "2013-10-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.724464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "إميل لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Louis"
    title: "Émile Louis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Louis"
    title: "Émile Louis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Louis"
    title: "Émile Louis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Louis"
    title: "Émile Louis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3588630"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump