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How could a man who seemed quiet

who had a happy uneventful childhood be

able to dramatically change crime by

making several women disappear forever

during the first world war the men are

at the front while the wives Left Behind

have to get work in order to survive

taking advantage of the situation

the Bluebeard of gombe used matrimonial

ads to entice single women in order to

relieve them of their assets

their bodies are never found nothing

more than a few bones which prove

nothing

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will lead an extraordinary investigation

to thwart the culprit who meticulously

covered his tracks

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has captivated International public

opinion and several filmmakers have

brought the famous killer to the big

screen Charlie Chaplin played him in the

1947 film Mr Verdu Claude chapal

directed laundry in 1962 and more

recently in 2005 Patrick timsett's

character was modeled on the famous

criminal in the Pierre boutol film The

Landrieu case

all these films serve to perpetuate the

infamous laundry affair

at the start of October 1917 the mayor

of gombe a small town an hour outside of

Paris on the edge of the rambuye forest

receives a letter from Madame Pella in

Paris

she asks if it's possible to start a

search for her sister Mrs colomb who was

to marry a certain Mr vremier living in

gombe as she has not heard from her

sister in some time

in 1917 France is in the horrors of War

it was the terrible year of Verda the

shamandi dam Massacre thousands of

soldiers die in the hell of the trenches

so The Disappearance of a young woman

doesn't seem important in the eyes of a

Town's mayor who files the letter away

without attaching any real importance to

it

but two years later a new letter arrives

at the Town Hall

it's signed mahila cost and she asks for

any news of her sister Mrs bison who is

supposedly staying with Mr frame in

gambay she hasn't had any news from her

sister for some time it's 1919. the war

is over and life is getting back on

track the mayor's assistant who

conscientiously organizes the files

finds the letter received in 1917 and

Compares it with the one he has just

received

there's no doubt about it

who women are talking about the same

person a mystery remains

there is no Mr framier in gambay but the

description of the individual a bearded

man corresponds to that of a tenant in

an isolated house situated at the

entrance to the Village

without the authority to carry out an

investigation the mayor's assistant Mr

tierralay advises the two women to

contact the police

a complaint is therefore lodged with the

state prosecutor and the magistrate

assigns an investigation to the notary

services in charge of examining the

importance of the case

and of transferring the mission to the

Investigation Services which back then

police called the mystery office

the first lead investigated is the white

slave trade but the age of the women and

Mrs busan's photo make this hypothesis

extremely unlikely

by interrogating the families inspector

Adam quickly observes that he must

concentrate his research in gombe and

that he should also pass on the case to

the city of monts public prosecutors

Department

March 16 1919 police officer jul Ebe

arrives in gambay to interrogate the

inhabitants

very quickly tongues start wagging and

the finger is pointed at the house at

the entrance to the Village it belongs

to Mr trick who rents it out to a

certain Mr dupole

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hello

it's extraordinary

technology

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she

is

yeah foreign

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when questioned the rural policeman

declares I couldn't tell you what went

on in the house but there is something

strange about it when it was lived in

the shutters looking out onto the road

were never open

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other local Witnesses speak of a

nauseating smoke coming out of the

House's chimney

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so something moves

under me foreign

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the public prosecutor of month therefore

decided that this case deserved a

large-scale investigation and alerted

the French criminal investigation

department it was the first mobile Squad

known as the tiger Squad who took over

this mysterious file inspector jul Balan

was in charge of the inquiry

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Bella started off by interrogating the

caretakers of the buildings where the

two missing women lived they gave

accounts of a love affair with a certain

Mr flamier who had come to reassure them

telling one that Miss colon lived with

him in the countryside and telling the

other that Miss bison was in the

countryside herself in charge of a

cafeteria in general pershing's sector

of the American Army

covered his tracks and no one knew where

to find him at various known addresses

no one had ever heard of him apart from

in gombe where the house remained

hopelessly boarded up

I know honors

immediate police

hello listen picture of the police a

family was a recipe

with other effective more is a

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this is

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for street but it's two o'clock in the

morning Balan doesn't want to lose his

lead he decides to spend the night in

front of the building

the following morning he finds out from

the caretaker that guilla has left to go

on holiday with his partner for a week

the inspector knows he's on to something

he spends every day in front of the

building on horseshwar street and on

April 11th around 11 o'clock in the

evening

the caretaker tells him that guy has

returned home

this time I've got him but laugh thinks

but he must wait the questioning can't

happen before Sunrise so as not to take

any risks the inspector decides to spend

the night on The Landing in front of the

apartment's door

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nine o'clock AM

inspector bomberger who was contacted

thanks to the caretaker joins him and

they carry out the arrest

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people

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foreign

meghole

is here

Barbara

is not alone in the apartment

a few moments later a young woman in a

dressing gown emerges from the bedroom

who are you she shouts

it's a misunderstanding replies but

overcome with emotion the young lady

faints

and the policemen rushed towards her

they make her inhale salts and she comes

around moaning

Bella then asksie to prepare himself for

a detention which could potentially last

a long time

it's 10 a.m Saturday April 12 1919 when

guilla is taken into superintendent

dutell's office at the tiger squad's

headquarters number three grafful Street

before making the defendant sit down the

officers Frisk him

in his trouser packets are some Franks

in his right inside pocket of his jacket

belan takes out a notebook covered in

Black fabric

continuing their search they discover

another notebook hidden in the lining of

his coat

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the public prosecutors Department of

mold has sent a warrant in the name of

DuPont AKA fremier do you go by these

names asks the superintendent

my name is Lucian guy and I was born in

hoquah in 1874 the concerned party

replies

do you know two women by the name of

colom and bison

Jane nods his head in agreement

these women who you promised to marry

disappeared after they followed you to

gombe

gentlemen gie replies they weren't left

in my care if these women have

disappeared it's not for me to find them

it's for the police to look for them

the questioning proves to be complicated

doesn't seem to want to help the police

police custody can only last for 24

hours and nothing seems to bring him out

of his shell

below rushes to the suspect's home to

carry out a search in order to find new

evidence and there he finds a Rental

receipt for a garage on Mori Street in

cliche in the name of laundry

garage

is

foreign

armed with these documents Berlin

decides to go back to the

superintendent's office where the

defendant is still waiting but Guided by

his intuition he goes to the

anthropometric service at the French

criminal investigation department to

check if landrieu's name is on file

there it doesn't take him long to find

it I'll read Desiree laundry is subject

to eight convictions for theft Fraud and

Abuse of trust he is being investigated

by the police the photo alongside the

document leaves no room for doubt the

defendant guille is actually called

laundry

this time they've got him back in the

superintendent's office inspector belam

brandishes the file forcing Landru to

acknowledge his true identity

yes I'm laundry

but you must still prove that I'm a

killer

laundry is

foreign

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military

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a responsibility

foreign

reality

kill a participation is

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at the police station during the entire

day the inspectors grilled the suspect

he is unshakable he no longer says a

word at 10 o'clock in the evening he

asks for something to eat and they bring

him chicken a bit of bread and a coffee

he eats hardly without saying a word and

at midnight he puts his head on the

table and in front of stunned police

officers he sleeps soundly

6 a.m the following morning laundry

opens his eyes and asks for a Milky

coffee and croissant the police officer

starts questioning him again but it's

still like talking to a brick wall

for the time in police custody comes to

an end and the suspect has confessed to

nothing

they take long Drew to Mont the presumed

location of his crimes

facing the accumulation of evidence

against him judge Bona opens a Judicial

investigation to prove that laundry is

the person charged with murder to ensure

that he is imprisoned the case is now in

the hands of the justice system the

investigation is still entrusted to the

first mobile Squad

laundry remains completely mute

completely silent he puts up the wall

protecting his private life

laundry's two notebooks are of crucial

importance for the investigation in the

first inspectors find evidence partly in

code

entries read May 1918. sale lot 5 francs

desk sale 28 francs rug sale 12 francs

gas oven sale 21 Francs

the second notebook is a diary in which

he noted down his encounters with women

it showed that in just one day laundry

could meet up to six or seven women

across the whole of Paris

on one of the pages 11 names are written

in pencil two of which are and colomb

could this have been the list of people

that laundry would make disappear

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using gombe where they decide to take

the defendant

the house is cordoned off they dig up

the garden and they search the wells The

Cellar inside the furniture

suddenly in the shed hidden under a pile

of papers the police find the bodies of

three dead dogs with the ropes which

strangled them still tied around their

necks

they belong to a woman who came here

with me she asked me to kill them

because they cost her too much money I

strangled them with a rope it's the

gentlest kind of death said longhu

who is this woman superintendent Hotel

asks

the wall of my private life replies

London I refuse to break through it

April 16th Mrs Friedman comes to the

headquarters of the first mobile unit

with her husband she says she recognized

laundry's photo in the paper she knows

him by the name of Dr he had met her

sister Mrs gouche in April 1914. he made

marriage promises to her and invited her

to vernui where she went with her 15

year old son but since January 1915 no

one has heard from her

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taking off a list found in laundry's

documents the inspectors find the name

coucher next to the letter J edem

together with the name is buisso and

colom this now makes four identified

victims there are just seven left to

find

the four disappearances are making the

headlines

alluded to Bluebeard the laundry drama

begins and all the newspapers bring out

their bits of information

foreign

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stream

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conditions

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a problem Monumental supports

the police

fatal

dog immediately

it's by reading the newspaper that miss

van Hove the caretaker at 330 Saint

Jacques Street recognizes the bearded

man who in January 1919 seduced one of

her building's tenants Miss Marcia

is

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foreign

foreign

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goes to see the investigators she

explains that her lovely little mites

had spoken to her about a fiance Lucian

guier nicknamed londru a charming and

well-mannered man

had to leave for the countryside to live

with her fiance and Adrian entrusted her

with a small black dog who was slightly

unwell

that's when she maritarez's fiancee who

made a good impression on her and

reassured her that the animal would be

fine

no doubt about it a new name is found on

the list and the dead bodies of the

three dogs found under the pile of

leaves in the gombe house belong to the

beautiful woman and her friend

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April 19th the state prosecutor of

Versailles receives a letter from Mrs

Foshay in too long

two has read the newspapers and

recognizes her sister's fiancee's face

her sister was Annette Pascal Annette

and her fiance were going to get married

and settle down in gombe but miss Foshay

has never been heard from again her name

was still on laundry's list

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on April 21st Mr Rigo comes to the

superintendent's office

I read in the newspapers about the

laundry case he says I think I can add

to the list of disappearances

she's a widow named Gila living at 35

kozatier Street with a family with whom

I'm in touch

the inspectors immediately follow this

lead and in less than 24 hours Miss

gila's story is pieced together

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was over 50 years old a former housemaid

she'd inherited a tidy sum of twenty

thousand francs from Her Lover now able

to take care of herself she wore

fashionable outfits and had decided to

change her life it was by the means of

marriage ads that she came to know Mr

kushe

he was pretending to be the French

Council in Melbourne Australia

good enough to seduce a woman who is in

search of status

in August 1915 muskila announced to her

family she was leaving with her fiance

to go to Australia

and no one ever heard from her again

in 1916 the caretaker of the flat on

kosace street where Miss gilan lived

before she met the council recognized Mr

coucher AKA Landru in the 13th District

accompanied by two women

she immediately imagines the worst

misquilao's name isn't found on the list

in Lander's diary but there was the name

kozatier the exact name of the place

where she lived the link was evident but

how did all of these women succumb to

the charms of this fraud

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facility

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the list is comprised of 11 names

crochet and her son Landry's first

victims had been identified

the crozatia secret has been revealed

and it corresponds to miss Gila

maritares and Annette Pascal were

included in the victims

there were just four names left on the

list to put faces to

Jean babalay and more mysteriously those

corresponding to a code Brazil and

by studying the cliche garage archives

closely the inspectors discover the name

barthelemy in the jeoma file by

cross-checking it with the meetings

diary they read the following lines

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Paul's wife would like to divorce number

23 Leon Street

they set off for Leon Street the

caretaker there knew Mrs Zhong and she

has not heard from her since her

engagement she worked as a seamstress at

number 26 Sheen street at the Fashion

Studio her boss Ms lejo was affectionate

for Ms Jones who had told her about

difficulties with her husband

she also told her about meeting Mr

guilla in March 1917 who had seduced her

with his good manners she decided to

leave with him for the countryside

whilst waiting for her divorce despite

the numerous letters that Ms Eros sent

to her former employee she never

received a single reply

in January 1918 Guillo laundry turns up

at Miss ero's house to appease her

worries he told her a strange story Ms

Jones set out on a journey to the United

States where she found a job I will

marry her when she comes back as soon as

the war's over he says

and one more thought inspector Bella

by coming through landru's archives the

man from the first mobile Squad don't

take long to discover the identity of

the three remaining victims

file they find identity papers belonging

to Bert Ana aeon from

in his diary they find under the date

August 28 1915.

10 45 number 165 Wren Street Bert ayon

that was landru's ninth victim

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April 26 1919 the newspapers informed

the public that the 10th identified

victim was just 19 years old when she

met the man the Press called the

Bluebeard of gambay

it's in the apartment on rosheshwar

street that the inspectors discover a

photo slid into an envelope with the

address of Miss Cola number 91 nwazi

Street Leila

Miss Cola was the mother of the young

Andre babile who had disappeared after

having met laundrom

in gambay people remember this young

girl riding her bike around outside the

Sinister house but she's disappeared

from sight

after April 1917 her mother never heard

from her again

in despair she informed the police

looked for her daughter in hospitals and

in morgs but it was all in vain

now the inspectors just need to discover

what's meant by the code name Brazil

is good

IRS

Laura Paul

this party

is

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the inspectors also carry out several

investigations in their New Year where

Landru had rented a house prior to the

one in gombe they were particularly

interested in the stove which could have

been used to burn the bodies

where he had stayed for a few weeks with

Ms coucher

presented with a multiplicity of crimes

and places which depended on different

public prosecutors departments the

decision was made to lead the

investigation in Paris where the

majority of Witnesses were located on

April 27 1919 The Prisoner transfer from

Malta Paris is organized and the link

between the investigation reports was

entrusted to the examining magistrate Mr

bonal in the examining magistrates

office London declares in the form of a

preamble question me on anything you

like I protest against the accusations

which have been made against me the

investigation will shortly show my

perfect innocence

it wasn't enough to rely on the

defendant to find out the truth without

a body there was no way of proving

laundry was guilty the inspectors set

out again on the hunt for evidence

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there's no doubt in the investigators

Minds that Landru had made the 11

victims on the list disappear but did he

stop there

in these files the names of 283 women

were noted over the space of four years

all were rediscovered some had died from

natural causes just the 11 names written

in laundry's notebook had disappeared

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they returned to gombe with the

well-known Dr Paul a forensics expert in

the shed at the bottom of the garden a

pile of Ashes containing bone remains

intrigued the investigators the experts

are immediately called in the ashes and

the oven were taken to be analyzed in

the lab

the expert's report is clear

after the examination

1500 grams of bone and teeth remains of

human origin were found and 996 grams

came from a human skull

187 bones were identified and it was

established that the bones indisputably

came from three skulls six hands and

five feet from three different bodies

moreover the remains of a fourth body

was also identified

this was confirmed by different

testimonies from the neighbors who on

several occasions had pointed out a

nauseating smoke coming from The house's

chimney

it seemed that The Disappearance of

these bodies was explained by them being

incinerated in the famous oven

however a doubt remains

just the remains of skulls hands and

feet were found amongst the ashes not a

single fragment belonging to other parts

of the human skeleton were found

the testimonies once again directed The

investigators

laundry had been seen on several

occasions crossing the countryside in

the woods around gambe

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the

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defardo collisions

the investigation lasted two and a half

years and although no body was found

judge Bona like all the other inspectors

who participated in the investigation

had no doubt that laundry had in fact

killed those 11 victims on his death

list

that he made the bodies Disappear by

cutting them up and burning them in

Parts in his stove and got rid of

anything left over by scattering the

pieces in the woods around his house his

sole aim was to recuperate the assets

and savings of his victims who he

recruited by way of small adverts

but how was Landru able to change from

the role of a fraud to a killer

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videos

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they know

terrible criminals

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metroplas United

States

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calculator

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acquired

when judge Bona returns laundry's

investigation file to the court of

criminal appeal it contains 7 000 Pages

nothing has been left a chance

November 7 1921

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crew appeared before the court of

Versailles the presiding judge Gilbert

will direct the proceedings Mr hober

godfwa is the prosecuting attorney the

defending council is Mr de moho jafferi

the trial will last 20 days

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the support

yellow laundry is

it is

very verification

despite the horrors evoked when

describing the appalling crimes

committed by laundry intense debates

accompanied by polite language take the

public from horror to laughter when the

prosecuting attorney said Mr laundry we

estimate that you have

283 successive fiances the defendant got

up and addressed the court and the

public and he said

and I only kill 10. how lenient of me

at another moment

my head

you always talk about my head I regret

not having several to offer you Mr

prosecuting attorney

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on Monday November 21st the 1027 train

from Paris to Versailles is full that's

the day everyone waited to hear the

statement from Fair known sigre

laundry's most recent mistress the one

who was in bed the day he was arrested

when she appears in the courtroom the

public holds their breath

laundry lifts his gaze suddenly

fascinated

Vernon segre approaches the bar stumbles

puts her hands to her eyes and bursts

into tears

upon Mr demoro jaffery's request the

presiding bear decides to propone the

witness's testimony until later

judging she is not in the right State of

Mind for answering questions

the following day the beautiful woman

appears again the crowd murmurs

we're not in a theater the presiding

judge cries out a man's life is at stake

in a soft voice Fair known sigre began

her account

I met Lucian guy on a tram where he gave

me his seat when I got off he followed

me and tried to make conversation then

Fernand got upset burst into tears can

you continue Miss ask the presiding

judge

I'm so unhappy

how could I not have predicted this

laundry listens to her

when the presiding judge asks her

how was laundry with you

she replies

laundry was a passionate man but normal

normal

the cord is stunned

after the summing up for the prosecution

the prosecuting attorney godfwa claimed

in his own terms the suppression of this

corrupt branch of the social tree Mr

demo jafferi employed all of his talent

as an orator to defend his client

thank you

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consecutive

president is

foreign

Philly

is

foreign

turned towards the jury and told them

what do you say gentlemen that following

your arrest these words could be written

they gave him the death penalty and they

were mistaken

laundry have you got anything to declare

the presiding judge asked

highly dignified laundry stood up and

said

yesterday you all accused me of these

crimes and faults but Mr prosecuting

attorney I still see myself as having

one virtue that of being a father and a

husband on my head be it I swear I never

killed anyone

6 40 pm on November 30th 1921 the jury

withdraws to deliberate their verdict

two and a half hours later they come

back into the courtroom and London whose

guilt is confirmed

he stayed in the court as the verdict

was delivered the magistrates withdrew

three hours later they came back and

presiding judge Gilbert pronounced the

verdict

according to the letter of the law the

court condemns londru to death

Mr demo Jafari would not admit defeat

and he succeeded in getting the jury who

had just condemned lonru to sign a plea

for pardon and his conviction was such

that all appended their signatures and

even the families of Mrs gouche and Ms

Pascal joined them

the president of the Republic Alexandre

Milan refused Landorus plea for pardon

and on Friday February 24th the

guillotine was set up in front of the

prison of Versailles

at six o'clock AM officials went into

The Condemned man's cell

be brave

laundry was stretched out clearly he had

slept well

on his way to the guillotine laundry

leaned towards his lawyer and thanked

him for having defended his case

so Mr demoho Jafari took the opportunity

to ask him

laundry you have nothing to lose tell me

the truth don't leave this world with

your secret

laundry turned towards him and said

my secret sir is my baggage and I will

take it with me

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6 10 a.m the guillotine blade sliced off

laundry's head

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in his notebook the Executioner noted

Saturday

clear weather

6 10 A.M