Henri Landru: The Bluebeard Serial Killer of Gambais
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of World War I, a French conman lures desperate woman to their deaths with lonely hearts letters. Eventually known as the Bluebeard of Gambais, Henri Landru is known to have murdered at least 11 people.
Sources:
- Seeking Hearts - Ryan Green
- https://archive.org/details/landru0000land
- https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001744450
- https://read.dukeupress.edu/french-historical-studies/article/47/2/319/387225/Dead-but-Not-BuriedSerial-Murderer-Henri-Desire
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Désiré_Landru
- https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2013/11/29/henri-desire-landru-the-french-bluebeard-found-guilty-of-eleven-murders-on-1-december-1921/
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Jesse, last time we had one of the most classic love murder tropes, a deadly dentist. |
| 0:05.7 | Shockingly enough, what's the story this week? |
| 0:08.4 | In the wake of World War I, a French con man lures desperate women to their deaths with lonely |
| 0:13.9 | hearts letters, eventually known as the Bluebeard of Gombe. |
| 0:18.5 | Henri Landreux is known to have murdered at least 11 people. |
| 0:23.1 | Wow. I'm Andy Cassette. And I'm Jesse Pre. Welcome back everyone to Love Murder, or maybe today it is, what would that be in French? Mort Amour. Mort Amour, yeah. |
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