To meet family needs, Henri Landru beginning of 1915 he did go through a widowed, single and wealthy, in search of sun and rich to seduce women. Simulating a prosperity that was no more than a facade, made them likely to see a marriage and then invited them to stay briefly in a secluded villa, which he rented, Gambais (Seine-et-Oise, the current department of Yvelines).
Thanks to his eloquence, he could bring his victims to sign a power of attorney that allowed him to plunder their bank accounts. He could only strangle the women, and make it disappear by burning the bodies in the furnace of the villa. Although he was quite isolated, the house was close enough to other houses to attract the attention of several times its neighborhood, intrigued by the smell of stinking fireplace during periods when the heating was not necessary. However, being very discreet in making a type his crimes could remain in the shadows.
Following complaints lodged by relatives of the victims, Landru was arrested April 12, 1919 after what appeared to fraud and embezzlement. Faced with the consistent evidence was soon accused of the murder of ten women and a child accompanying one of the victims.
The request for clemency sent to Alexandre Millerand, president of the French Republic, was denied February 24, 1922. The public execution of the sentence occurred at 6:05 am on February 25, 1922, in the prison yard of St. Pierre in Versailles, which had been prepared for the gallows and the guillotine.
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