BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 326                 Thursday, 21 November 2024         Antwerpen		
Our Young Life was Like a Flower in Bloom
Serial killer
Henri Désiré Landru
aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais


  • 12 April 1869 (+) is born in Paris, France.

  • 7 October 1893 (x) marries Marie-Catherine Rémy in Paris, France.

  • 21 July 1904 (x) is sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, France.

  • 28 May 1906 (x) is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for fraud in Paris, France.

  • 4 January 1909 (x) is sentenced in absentia to five years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, France.

  • 12 March 1910 (x) is sentenced to three years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, France.

  • 27 August 1912 (-) The 77-year-old father of Landru commits suicide by hanging in Paris, France.

  • 26 July 1914 (x) is sentenced to four years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, France.

  • 4 December 1914 (x) rents a villa in Vernouillet, France.

  • 26 June 1915 (-) murdered Thérèse Laborde-Line in Vernouillet, France.

  • 3 August 1915 (-) murdered Marie-Angélique Guillin in Vernouillet, France.

  • 5 December 1915 (x) rents a villa in Gambais, France.

  • 8 December 1915 (-) murdered Berthe-Anna Héon in Gambais, France.

  • 27 December 1916 (-) murdered Anne Collomb in Gambais, France.

  • 12 April 1917 (-) murdered Andrée-Anne Babelay in Gambais, France.

  • 1 September 1917 (-) murdered Célestine Buisson in Gambais, France.

  • 26 November 1917 (-) murdered Louise-Joséphine Jaume in Gambais, France.

  • 5 April 1918 (-) murdered Anne-Marie Pascal in Gambais, France.

  • 4 September 1918 (-) murdered Anne-Marie Pascal in Gambais, France.

  • 13 January 1919 (-) murdered Marie-Thérèse Marchadier in Gambais, France.

  • 12 April 1919 (x) is arrested as Lucien Guillet in Paris, France.

  • 14 June 1921 (x) is moved from Prison de la Sante to await trial in Versailles, France.

  • 7 November 1921 (x) Start of the trial against Landru in Versailles, France.

  • 30 November 1921 (x) is sentenced to death in Versailles, France.

  • 25 February 1922 (-) is executed by the Guillotine in Versailles, France.

  • 23 January 1923 (x) The furniture, including the stove, of Landru is sold at a public auction in Versailles, France.


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