Henri Landru was a mass murderer under what nickname was he better known
Henri Désiré Landru Henri Désiré Landru Henri Désiré Landru (12 April 1869 – 25 February 1922) () was a French serial killer and real-life "Bluebeard". Landru was born in Paris. After leaving school, he spent four years in the French Army from 1887 to 1891, and afterwards had a sexual relationship with his cousin, who bore him a daughter. They wed two years later, and had three more children. After being swindled by his employer, he turned to fraud himself, often swindling elderly widows; he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1900, the first of several such convictions. By 1914, Landru was
Henri Désiré Landru the disappearance of these women, as Landru used a wide variety of aliases in his schemes. He kept a ledger listing the particular alias he used when corresponding with each woman. In 1919, the sister of one of Landru's victims attempted to track him down. She did not know Landru's real name but she knew his appearance and where he lived, and she eventually persuaded the police to arrest him. Initially, Landru was charged only with embezzlement. He refused to talk to the police, and with no bodies (police dug up his garden without result), there was seemingly insufficient evidence