FRENCH 'BLUEBEARD'
54 BODIES IDENTIFIED
Rec. noon. LONDON, September 1. .Police have identified the bodies of 54 people, mostty ■ women, who were murdered by Dr. Marcel Petiot, the French "Bluebeard," says the British United Press correspondent in Paris. Officials of the Paris Surete told the correspondent: "It is no myth" about Petiot. He is very much a fact. Heaven knows how many more victims will be found." - .
A mystery reminiscent of the Landru case was discovered in Paris last March when the remains of .34 bodies; mostly of women, were found in the cellar of an uninhabited house owned by Dr. Petiot; His body was subsequently reported to have been found in the River Yonne, near Fontainebleau.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 6
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117FRENCH 'BLUEBEARD' Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 6
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