Hello I'm French and I have a problem with Louis Letrush it multiplies ! you know when there will be an update to bug ? Thank you for your response ! Sorry for my english I use google translation

I have no idea, but I have 20 or so of him outside of Whiterun Stables. I also saw his fate happen about 5 times now as I travel around Skyrim. lol

The easiest way to fix this is to not give him his horse at the end of the quest, then he does not duplicate. Plus, you get a nice horse this way. Though he is not happy about it and may look for revenge.

I have it too, but I can live with it. I usually kill him or laeve him alone. I think you should start a new game or hope bethesda will fix it. And do you play on console or PC? I you play on PC there might be a patch, I don't know. I play Skyrim on Xbox so

how do you kill him?
i have this glitch and he's marked as essential

I just go behind him and slit his throat or just kill him. I don't know why but he pops up after a while and I kill him again, and again and again..

Really? I hadn't thought about that.

I opened his form in the ck the other day and I noticed that there was a script in one of the boxes; the script is related to the cell where dead bodies are dumped, WIDeadBody... something. I opened other characters forms and the script wasn't there. I'm wondering if this script could be the reason for Louis cloning himself over time. Anybody?

Nope, no patch yet, sorry. And I've tried to solve it by myself with the console and following several tricks people mentioned, but none have truly worked for me yet. MarkForDelete just doesn't do it for me. And yeah, aside from the five Letrushes I've got standing at the Whiterun stables for the third time, the amount of times I've encountered him in the wilds isn't countable anymore. Louis running along the path, Louis attacking an ice wraith, Louis in a fight with a spriggan and a bear, Louis running away from no apparent threat, Louis meeting the orc for the umpteenth time and getting killed (tried to save him once. Bastard said thankyou with his little knife. Replied with the same, in a bit larger shape and twofold). Last time he got killed by the orc in Riften, after which the orc entered the Barb and Bee where Maven sat, and left it again.

He shouldn't be essentail after you've done his quest. Both the ones at Whiterun stables as the ones yoou encounter over the world are killable. Doesn't stop them from reappearing 'though ...

Thank you for your reponse that there are more bethesda hoped to do someting ...

He is essential for me after doing his quest. That is the known "bug." Then he hung around whiterun and started duping. First 3, then more and now up to 13. 12 before patch 1.6, and then later I noticed up to 13 after it.

Pretty sure he is essential till you see him killed, I tried killing him a lot with my first and second characters, he would just come back to life, literally. Second character saw him killed in the wilds, he was finally killable at the Whiterun stables. My first character threatened him and got the horse, and Letrush sent some thugs sent after him, my second gave him the horse, ensured he kept it and got the thug sent after Letrush. Both informed Maven of the plan before stealing the horse. Only the second character ended up with multiple Lertush's outside the stables, and that was after he had been killed in the wilds. I had been ignoring him for ages with the second character, resigned to the fact I could not be rid of him, then after the battle for Whiterun I noticed there were now three of him, lost it and killed them. For once they stayed dead, never seen them since. My first character just cannot seem to get rid of the one Letrush he is stuck with. I am still thinking about what my third character is going to try, he has not spoken with Letrush yet to get the quest.