Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (died 1922)

Henri Désiré Landru

French serial killer (1869–1922)

Henri Désiré Landru was a French serial killer, nicknamed the Bluebeard of Gambais and a prolific marriage fraudster. He is confirmed to have murdered at least ten women and the teenage son of his first victim, primarily targeting lonely war widows whom he met through newspaper…