The Bluebeard Case: The Mystery Of France's Most Gruesome Serial Killer | Absolute History
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- A gruesome tale set during the First World War, ‘The Bluebeard Case' tells of a seemingly respectable man who targets single women and sets about seducing them, with the sole aim of murdering them. But it doesn’t stop there. He goes on to burn their bodies on his stove in his house in France and finally strips them of all their assets.
His name is Henri Désiré Landru. He is arrested during the investigations of two missing women, but what the police don’t realize is that they’ve just stumbled across one of the most notorious criminals of the 20th Century…
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To be honest, I'd never heard of this case. Thanks for sharing it!
Would be great to have audio translations for those that can only listen
Yes! An English voiceover would have made this much more interesting.
An eerie similarity to the case of H.H. Holmes (often identified as the "first" serial killer).
how can H.H Holmes be considered the 1st serial killer, as his 1st murder was in 1891, Jack the Ripper preceded him by 3 years.
He wasn't even the first in the US
I think Holmes is known as America’s first serial killer.
I’m visually impaired and found the subs to be hard to read.
I can think of a few modern criminals who'd benefit from the attentions of the guillotine.
2:13 The terrible year of Verdun is 1916...
I wonder how many women they saved once they put this man behind bars?
4:05 now why they do her dirty like that? ... Her picture ruled out that possibility.😂
I married my second wife in 1986. I had taken out significant life insurance policies while being married to my first wife. This ensured that my first wife would be ''financially comfortable' if I died. My second wife asked, before the marriage, if I had any life insurance policies from my first marriage. I told her yes and what amount. She asked if I would name her as the benefactor. During the first ten years of our marriage, she told me that I needed to increase the amount of my life insurance. She wanted to make sure, like my first wife, that she would be 'financially comfortable' if I died. I increased the amount of my life insurance several times over the next ten years. After the end of the ten years, I began to get sick. My doctors could not determine the cause of my sickness. I began to suspect that it had something to do with my wife. I canceled all of my insurance policies, and my illness went away. Strange?
Get a new wife
@@greywater3186😆😂
Oh hell no. I swear that sounds like every crime channel story ever played on TV, I swear life insurance shouldn't be something couples discuss in conversation, but instead something that someone does in secret for their loved ones out of love for them to insure their financial security, that is if they can afford it, but it's like a gift, not something you're loved ones are entitled too, it's like saying they're entitled to your life, which they're not. If your loved one realizes you're worth more to them dead than alive things will likely happen, money makes people do crazy things after all.
I hope your wife went away too! I would have had my blood and urine tested for poison. But that's me.
Yes, that is strange. Strange that you didn't just file for divorce! That's what I did!
Honestly…. I’m always skeptical when people who commit violent crimes have a supposedly ‘happy uneventful childhood’ especially with older cases. Even if that person claims it.
I dunno what about that dude who just got arrested for the Idaho killings? Some people are just evil.
@@darcyking14 I don’t agree at all. People aren’t just evil, self destructive and violent behavior comes from trauma.
What about me? I'm at 27, and my childhood was great
@@drowningin …. have you murdered people?? If not then… yeah. Makes sense.
People with happy childhoods go on to be successful adults & still suffer from Mental illnesses & depression.
*_Absolute History_* why has the North American region lost ability to view *_The Gruesome History of Victorian Medicine_* Video? I was going to share it, & it says we are no longer authorized to view...😔
It's usually a licensing issue. Absolute History is a distributor and doesn't make or own these. I think they sometimes make a mistake and have to back track. I get lots of notifications for documentaries that they're not authorised to show here.
The first man who was shown looks so much like Bernie Madoff! 😳😳😳
How come this channel doesn't tell you what's the actual name of the documentary? At least put it in the info if you're not gonna put it on the title.
What about Gilles de Rais?
“serial killer Gilles de Rais, a nobleman who fought alongside Joan of Arc and became both Marshal of France and her official protector, then was hanged and burned as a murderous witch.[7] However, Gilles de Rais did not kill his wife, nor were any bodies found on his property, and the crimes for which he was convicted involved the sexually-driven, brutal murder of children rather than women”.
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There's a theory that he was actually the victim of a brutal smear campaign (by powerful people who wanted his money and properties) and didn't actually commit any of the crimes he was accused of. I watched a documentary about the theory not that long ago and there was actually a lot more evidence pointing towards his innocence than any really pointing towards him being guilty :o (I'd need to look further into it before I could come to my own conclusion though)
Did they say "the age of thr women & ms. Whatever her name is' 'fugo', make this extremely unlikely" Fugo, like fugly?
Lazy historian starts talking 1:42
Stream starts 4:31
Why was he called Blue Beard?
bluebeard is an old french story where a bearded man marries women only to kill them.
“Bluebeard" (French: Barbe bleue, [baʁb(ə) blø]) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in Histoires ou contes du temps passé.[1][2] The tale tells the story of a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of the present one to avoid the fate of her predecessors. "The White Dove", "The Robber Bridegroom" and "Fitcher's Bird" (also called "Fowler's Fowl") are tales similar to "Bluebeard".[3][4] The notoriety of the tale is such that Merriam-Webster gives the word "Bluebeard" the definition of "a man who marries and kills one wife after another". The verb "bluebearding" has even appeared as a way to describe the crime of either killing a series of women, or seducing and abandoning a series of women.”:::::::::::::from. Wikipedia
@@cricket8438 My Aunt used to tell me this story when I was young only she said he was a pirate who went out of town often on business. Then one of the wives who was left alone with all the keys to the rooms in the castle and was ordered to never unlock a specific door, unlocked the door and discovered all the bodies of his previous wives. She dropped the key in a pool of blood, staining it. He found out she had disobeyed him and locked her in the spyre, then her brothers rode up on horseback and rescued her.
Because his hair was so black in the sun it had a blue tint.
Marie was a beautiful woman?
I thought the same, different times I guess
She looked like a man to me
It's too late it set my tinnitus off.
The edit button was intended to be used.
I can’t watch this. Way too much French.
Why would someone add obnoxious alarm music in the background and it's completely unnecessary
I don't know, I have tinnitus so I can't hear it I guess.
@@christopherflynn5359 it went away but then the French people started talking and I hate when French people talk and I left
@@christopherflynn5359 I'm wondering if it was in my house. My. Mother is a bad cook and I myself am wondering why it smells so bad lol
@@MagdaleneDivine can speak a little Cajun french and I love hearing Cajuns talk that stuff.
@@christopherflynn5359 Ya, I don't hear it either.
Annoying sponsor in the middle? Thumbs down.
Dear god don't let that alarm be throughout the video
if it helps this channel just straight up stole this video from the Real Stories youtube channel and that video has the sounds in a lower ring as it probably should be
Interesting case but the French accent makes my ears bleed.
Mmm koi h
Pig shit am I going to have to listen to this phelmy sounding French language half the time reading tiny subtitles the whole time
ay por favor, cariño que drama más grande del primer mundo. idiomas querida, idiomas.
@@danone2414 Spanish is second in ugly sounding language
Go cry about it
Its not the most pleasant experience trying to watch this
You dont have to watch it