Villa Ermitage at Gambais.
Villa Ermitage at Gambais.
Villa Ermitage at Gambais.
The neighbors from
Gambais testified of the putrid black smoke that billowed from the
chimney of the Villa Ermitage. One witness has seen him toss
something into the pond out back and one witness claimed to have
pulled out something like putrid flesh while fishing in the pond.
The gardens in Gambais and Vernouillet were dug up time and time again.
Investigations
Villa at Vernouillet, outside Paris.
Landru would seduce the women who came to his
villa and, after he been given access
to their assets,
he
would kill them - probably by strangulation - and burn their
dismembered bodies in his oven.
Landru's oven.
In 1936, the daughter of the defense lawyer
found a message scribbled on a drawing
handed to him from Landru
that had been hanging on the wall of his office. It read:
"I did it.
I burned their bodies in the kitchen stove."
A notebook used as evidence.
Andree-Anna Babelay's mother testifies at trial.
Vincent de Moro-Giafferi,
Landru's lawyer.
Landru's car.
Fernande Segret
Handmade oil painting reproduction of
Henri Desire Landru 1869-1922 in his Kitchen,
from Le Petit Journal, 13th November 1921, a painting
by
Raymond Pallin.
