What are we capable of doing for love? Love as a mystical force, everything can, but this feeling in the most disturbed minds, like that of Carl Tanzler, motivates even the sinister.
Carl Tanzler became so obsessed by a beautiful dark-haired woman , of exotic bearing, that in death he saw the opportunity for an unrequited love to be transformed into something else, leading him to realize the unthinkable.Some said he was nothing more than an eccentric romantic; others rejected what he did, cataloging him as a repulsive subject who stole and abused the corpse of a young Cuban.This is his story...
Carl Tanzler, the man who took his love beyond Death
Carl Tanzler was a German radiologist who worked at a Hospital for Marines, in Key West, Florida.Alli his life would be intertwined in a peculiar way with that of Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos, a woman of Cuban-American origin, sick with tuberculosis.
They both met on April 22, 1930, when Maria Elena's mother, whom they used to call "Helen," moved to her office to perform physiological exams., Tanzler was captivated by her beauty.The rapture intensified much more when I remember a revelation in which a deceased aunt, Countess Anna Constantia von Cosel, showed her the supposed face of her true soulmate : she was...the exotic black-haired woman os.
He was a married man and father of two young girls.She would have married Luis Mesa, who abandoned her after having an abortion.Without any of this matter, Tanzler did everything he could., even more, so as not to depart from the 22-year-old Cuban woman.
I apply any knowledge about medicine I had to save the life of her beloved secret.He attended her at home, where she was subjected to treatments questionable that did not have medical approval.After these efforts he hoped to cure her of tuberculosis and thus earn her love .However, the disease defeated her and died on October 25, 1931.
Even with all the misfortune, death was not able to tear away the burning obsession that aroused the woman Dark-haired r.Carl Tanzler, with the permission of Maria Elena's family, was responsible for covering the funeral expenses, built a tall mausoleum so that the remains were not affected by the water.Without no one knew, besides, would have prepared the body with formaldehyde along with other substances to conserve its remains.He drew up a plan with which he would finally consummate his romance.
Two years later After the death of the young woman, the German radiologist, secretly, exhumed the corpse in an advanced state of decomposition and took it with him to his home.I use disinfectants, perfumes and preservatives of any kind to release the stench of his beloved.
I try anything to replace the parts of the woman's body that yielded p or effects of death, fill the breasts so that they do not lose their shape and join some pieces of what was left of their humanity with small wires.I try everything, even taxidermy.
I slept next to her, she sang songs for her, dressed her in new clothes and made love to her with the help of a tube that I installed so that it would work like a false vagina.I could not take this madness further.
Despite all this, nine years went by until Tanzler, the man who became obsessed with a dead woman, was discovered.Maria Elena's sister heard rumors about the stealing of the corpse of her sister who pointed to the man who had taken care of her convalescence.After visiting him at his house I verify that, indeed, it was.
The news spread like dust and became the event of the moment.The body of Maria Elena was studied by pathologists, and later , exhibited to the public.It was an extremely strange event, especially because of the conditions in which the corpse was: well, that which would have been a beautiful woman in life, was converted into a terrifying doll.
Elena was buried again in an incognito place, to prevent history from repeating itself, and although Hoyos' family went to justice so that the “eccentric romantic” paid for what happened, Tanzler was never jailed for the facts.
After all, he never regained the body of The woman he became obsessed with, but reluctant to leave everything behind, built a replica of Maria Elena with a mortuary mask that traced her face.This served to keep alive the lugubre illusion that accompanied him to his deathbed, on the 13th of August 1952.
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