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Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

At Guillet's house a drivers license with the name of Henri Désiré Landru and a little black book with eleven names of disappeared women in it was found by arresting officers Jean Belin and Riboulet. In the bedroom Landru's mistress Fernande Segret fainted and was found stark naked on the floor.
(12 April 1919)

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Matteawan Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Beacon, New York, United States.

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