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Landru also killed at least three other women and a young man in the house he rented from December 1914 to August 1915 in the town of Vernouillet, a town 35 kilometres (22 mi) northwest of Paris. The true number of Landru's victims is suspected to be higher.
Nov 26, 2018 · Henri Désiré Landru, a convicted swindler who operated under different names in Paris during World War 1, may have killed substantially more women than the ten whose murders he was sentenced...
- Jan Van Der Made
Jul 25, 2023 · In the official version of the case, the 10 women and one youth on Landru’s list, several of whose names were written in code, were his only murder victims.
May 1, 2024 · Abstract. On April 12, 1919, Paris police arrested Henri Désiré Landru, a man who had spent the last four years of war luring women into engagements and confiscating their assets. Many of them were never seen again. Landru, charged with their murders, became an international media sensation—the inspiration for popular crime stories, including books, articles, films, television and radio ...
Apr 12, 2019 · In the end, Landru was sentenced to death, charged with the murder of only a small number of his probable victims. “The police did not trace all of the women,” says Richard Tomlinson, author of...
- Jan Van Der Made
Nov 30, 2017 · Over five years between 1914 and 1919, he killed ten women. He also killed the teenage son of one of the victims, after he came looking for his mother and discovered what Landru was up to. In 1919, he was finally arrested, after one of his victim’s sisters showed up, looking for her.
Nov 7, 2021 · Henri Désiré Landru, or “Bluebeard” on trial, facing 11 counts of murder and 37 theft and fraud charges. It took the jury less than three hours to find Landru guilty of the murders.
