#carltanzler

theoddcollection:

Carl Tanzler and Elena Hoyos. 

 

Carl was a radiologist who met Elena in 1930 before she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He became infatuated with the pretty young Cuban and attempted to cure her. Alas, she died a year later in 1931. Proving that love has no bounds, Carl stole her corpse two years after Elenas death, carting it through the cemetery after dark on a toy wagon, and transporting it to his home. 

 

He attached the corpse’s bones together with wire and coat hangers, and fitted the face with glass eyes. As the skin of the corpse decomposed, Tanzler replaced it with silk cloth soaked in wax. As the hair fell out of the decomposing scalp, Tanzler fashioned a wig from Hoyos’s hair that had been collected by her mother and given to Tanzler not long after her burial in 1931. Tanzler filled the corpse’s abdominal and chest cavity with rags to keep the original form, dressed Hoyos’s remains in stockings, jewelry, and gloves, and kept the body in his bed. Tanzler also used copious amounts of perfume, disinfectants, and preserving agents, to mask the odor and forestall the effects of the corpse’s decomposition.

 

He kept the corpse in his bed for 7 years before his secret has been discovered.

 

Separated from his obsession, Tanzler used a death mask to create a life-sized effigy of Hoyos, and lived with it until his death on July 3, 1952.

 

Source: Wikipedia

bringing back this oldie because i just saw about it on tv and got chilllls