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Henri Landru: Eleven People Vanished. No Bodies Were Ever Discovered
France, 1915. A country full of widows, and a man placing advertisements in the lonely hearts columns of the Paris papers.
Hundreds of women wrote back. Henri Désiré Landru kept their names in a little notebook and worked through it charming, attentive, always talking about marriage. One by one he took them out to a villa in the countryside west of Paris.
No body was ever found. Not one. So when the case finally came to court, the prosecution had to prove murder with no victim to show the jury. What they had instead was paperwork: a notebook, some household accounts, and the record of the…
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