André Robini

André Robini (April 29, 1928 – June 28, 2001), known as The Old Lady Killer (French: L'assassin des vieilles dames), was a French serial killer who assaulted between 40 and 50 elderly women in the Parisian arrondissements and in Versailles between 1955 and 1956, killing three of them. A self-described gerontophobe, Robini was sentenced to death for his crimes, but was later pardoned.

Early life André Robini was born on April 29, 1928, in Nice, in what was described as an unhappy family. When he was a teenager, his mother suddenly died, causing the young Robini to quit his job as a baker and begin wandering the streets at night. Not long after, he was arrested for a minor offense and sent to a juvenile detention facility. After he was released, he voluntarily enlisted in the French Far East Expeditionary Corps's paratroopers division, where he attained the rank of sergeant and later fought at the fronts in French Indochina in the First Indochina War. Marguerite Meurdrac (72) - six days after the Chenaud killing, the body of the retired journalist Meurdrac was found in her apartment on Rue de Montmorency in Boulogne-Billancourt.

Over the following two years, the case was rarely mentioned in newspapers, aside from a short segment in Le Voie de la Paix, where the Robini case was recalled as an example of the brutality of the French army commandos and their regime in French Indochina. On August 7, 1958, Robini received a pardon from the president, on the same day as another murderer, Jacques Sermeus. No information about him is available after the pardon, but in all likelihood, he was released after staying about 15-18 years behind bars (freed in 1978 after 22 years spent in jail, Guy Desnoyers, another murderer known as the infamous curé d'Uruffe, was mentioned by medias as the convict with the longest jail time) and he died forgotten in 2001.