September 24, 1880 - Cesare Serviatti
Operating in early twentieth-century Rome, he exploited the loneliness of women who responded to personal advertisements, methodically targeting and killing at least three of them over a four-year span. The comparison to Henri Landru — the French wife-killer whose name became synonymous with predatory matrimonial fraud — reflects both his method and the calculated patience with which he selected victims. He was tried, convicted, and executed in 1933.
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Cesare Serviatti (24 November 1880 – 13 October 1933), known as The Landru of the Tiber (Il Landru del Tevere, in Italian), was an Italian serial killer who killed at least three women he contacted through lonely hearts ads between 1928 and 1932. Convicted for these crimes, he was sentenced to death and subsequently executed.
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