34 Victims Of French Doctor “Bluebeard’
LONDON! March 16,
Paris police haA’e discovered four more bodies in a Avardrobe belonging 1 t:o Dr. .Beloit, says Vichy radio. The bodies were those of three Avomen and a man. The total of victims hoav is 34. Hitherto only one male body avhs found. Berlin radio says Dr. Paul, a criminal pathologist Avho helped solve the Landru mystery, reconstructed three more bodies from the remains and said he found so many disjointed bones that it tvas impossible to determine the exact number of victims. At least one was a man as one male cranium has so far been found. Petoit, like Landru, appears to have hoarded the clothing of the A’ictims. The police found 30 different pairs of shoos in the house in Rue Lesueur. Petoit’s brother Avill be charged Avith complicity in the crime. Vichy radio says that examination of Petoit’s Avife lias shown that she knetv of her husband’s sinister activities.
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Northern Advocate, 17 March 1944, Page 3
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