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| “ | Constable, I buy, sell and develop properties. Profit and loss. That's as far as my interest extends. The history of a place, who lived here, I'm afraid that's... that's none of my business. | „ |
| ~ Josiah Landesman to Morse about his interest to evade his question about Blenheim Vale. |
Josiah Landesman is a supporting antagonist in Series 2 of Endeavour, the prequel series to Inspector Morse. He is one of the three main culprits responsible for the tragedy in Blenheim Vale (alongside his two partners in crime, Clive Deare and Gerald Wintergreen).
He was Oxford's property developer with fame as well as publicity, but deep down, he was a corrupt and egotistical businessman, as well as a pedophile and child rapist responsible for the tragedy of Blenheim Vale.
He was portrayed by Richard Dixon, who also previously portrayed Edmund Pettifer in Taboo.
Biography[]
Past[]
Ten years before the story began, Landesman and his partner Wintergreen led a group of pedophiles who abducted children from Blenheim Vale after Wintergreen were promoted to its governor.
With the assistance of Dr. Jasper Fairbridge, Wintergreen and Landesman took at least six young boys (including DS Peter Jakes, nicknamed "Small Pete") to the hotel, where they abused them and raped them.
Fed up by such atrocity, Peter "Big Pete" Williams led the other boys to set Wintergreen's car on fire. Following this, the boys were captured by Deare and were heavily abused until they were forced to give Big Pete in. After that, Landesman and his accomplices murdered Big Pete and buried his body underground.
Upon Big Pete disappeared, the remaining boys made a code together that one day if something happened to one of them, they would ensembled and made a secret meetings.
Present[]
One of the boys, George Aldrich, was later sentenced to the prison. Sometimes before Aldrich was expired from imprisonment, a journalist named Eric Patterson reached him for the investigation and expose of Blenheim Vale atrocities.
However, after accepting an interview from Patterson during a charity fair, Wintergreen and Landesman found this out. They sent Deare and his men to murder Patterson and faked it to be an accident, whilst Aldrich was also murdered by Deare and his men not long after he escaped from jail.
Before these happened, Landesman had been developing properties and paid for bribing certain police officers, taking slices from the Oxford's ring of corrupt police.
After the murders happened, Landesman were questioned by Morse three times, respectively after the deaths of Patterson, Aldrich and much later Wintergreen. Landesman was calm and denied he had knew about Aldrich or Patterson, but he and his fellow partners had saw Morse as an obstacle. He later sent Deare to do his dirty work and eliminate Morse.
In Series 3, after the truth of Blenheim Vale's past came to the authorities, all of the corrupt police and officials were arrested.
However, fearing the consequences of such impact. the authority chose to seal off the entire truth into cases instead of revealing it to the light, leaving no true impact upon the county's corruption and abuse of law enforcement.
Death[]
Rather than being brought to justice or prison, it is later revealed that Landsman and his secretary, Brenda Lewis, were both murdered by Arthur Lott, who was the real mastermind behind both Teddy Samuels' pimping and the Blenheim Vale incident.
It was also revealed that Lott (or at least his minions) had killed off Landesman and Brenda in order to silence them following Morse's re-investigation of this case of past darkness. He later buried Landesman's severed head to hide the evidence.
Landesman's demise was kept hidden for the next seven years until his skull was exhumed.
External links[]
- Josiah Landesman on the Pure Evil Wiki
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