ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Henri Désiré Landru

Henri Désiré Landru was a man from France who lived a long time ago, around a hundred years ago. He did some very bad things that hurt a lot of people. He was what we call a murderer, which means he killed people on purpose.

Now, Henri was not like most people. He was very sneaky and pretended to be nice to people. He would talk to them and try to get them to be friends with him. But secretly, he was planning to do something bad to them.

Henri had a strange hobby. He would put ads in newspapers and find women who were looking for husbands. He would meet them and talk to them, trying to make them fall in love with him. He would even promise to marry them!

But once they were alone with him, he would hurt them so badly that they would never go back home to their families again. He did this to many women over a few years.

Finally, people in charge found out about what Henri was doing, and they caught him. He went to jail and was punished for what he did. What Henri did was very wrong, and it's important to remember that it's never okay to hurt someone else on purpose.