The mausoleum Carl had Elena laid to rest in. It is hoped that the findings presented here will contribute towards the continuation of this cultural shift, and bring more empathy and understanding towards Elena rather than the man who pursued, poisoned and exploited her in life and death. He who has given you to me, will not reject our souls, united as they are in His undying love.. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. Tanzler didnt seem to get bored living with Hoyos corpse. His obituary said that a metal cylinder on a shelf above a table in it wrapped in silken cloth and a robe was a waxen image.. Carl Von Cosel was nevertheless unsatisfied with the outcome of his trial. Elenas consumptive condition meant little to Carl Von Cosel. The following "Editorial Note" accompanying the autobiographical account "The Trial Bay Organ: A Product of Wit and Ingenuity" by "Carl von Cosel" in the Rosicrucian Digest[3] of March and April 1939, gives details about his stay in Australia before his internment during the Great War, as well as his subsequent return to Germany after the War:[4][5]. Of course, she was shocked to find Hoyos body and she ran out of the laboratory to notify authorities. Maria Elena Milagro De Hoyos Birth 31 Jul 1909. Death . Elenas family had instructed Tanzler to stay away following these marriage proposals and also because of their dislike of the unorthodox devil machines used by him in his treatments of Elena. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. She had come to the Marine Hospital for treatment of tuberculosis. Tanzler emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1926, sailing from Rotterdam on February 6, 1926 to Havana, Cuba. Tanzler, with his self-professed medical knowledge, attempted to treat and cure Elena with a variety of medicines, as well as X-ray and electrical equipment, that were brought to the Hoyos' home. Hoyos examination at the Marine Hospital confirmed her worst nightmare: she had tuberculosis, a fatal disease in 1930 that mainly affects the lungs. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Detective Cases, Jun. On April 22, 1930, while working at the Marine Hospital in Key West, Tanzler met Maria Elena Milagro "Helen" de Hoyos (1909-1931), a local Cuban-American woman who had been brought to the hospital for an examination by her mother. NightMerica. During his childhood in Germany, and later while traveling briefly in Genoa, Italy, Tanzler claimed to have been visited by visions of a dead, purported ancestor, Countess Anna Constantia von Cosel, who revealed the face of his true love, an exotic dark-haired woman, to him. Elena was dying of tuberculosis, but Tanzler felt that she was his destinydespite having already having a wife and children. 36 37. As they autopsy her body, for a second time, they discovered that she was removed from her tomb two years after her burial. Sources differ (Tanzler von Cosel 1947, Perez 1952, Michelfelder 1982, Swicegood 2003) on when exactly he did this but the more respected tellings of this story (Harrison 1996, Sloan 2012) state this occurred in 1933. More than two years had already passed since Elena's death and her body had shown all the normal signs of decomposition. Hoyos body was finally buried in a new cemetery at Key West Cemetery. Tanzler von Cosel, K. The Secret of Elenas Tomb. Carl spent hours at Marias gravesite everyday, talking to her corpse, singing songs to her, reading stories, and other crazy activities that are best left unspoken. Carl could not get over Marias death, so he decided to pursue her from beyond the grave. Key West, Monroe County, Florida, USA. Von Cosel was arrested for body snatching but was not indicted because the statute of limitations had passed. He stuffed her body with rags, waxed the skin with plaster of Paris, and even fitted the face with glass eyes. iUniverse. The Mad Scientist of Key West. On April 22, 1930, while working at the Marine Hospital, Tanzler met the one person in his life he had been searching for since he was 12 years old: his soulmate. It is through several key pieces of research he came across and our correspondence on these that inspired and made this article a possibility. Join today and youll get up to twenty dollars in shopping credit toward your first order. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. Maria Elena Milagro De Hoyos, known as Elena, walked into a Key West hospital suffering from a fatal infection of tuberculosis. Search above to list available cemeteries. 1982, pp. Immortal Kisses Were His Goal. The former three, as he describes them, are quite applicable to Tanzler. He once shouted at her parents, Will you take the responsibility to let your daughter die through your stupidity? (p. 32) and on finding their new residence recalled, if anyone had tried to stop me [from entering], I think, I would have used violence (p.28). Life is dormant, inactive, sleeping, in a person who has died. She went over to his home to confront him, and found out his terrible secret. Tanzler had had visions since childhood of a dark-haired woman who was destined to be his true love. He also claimed nine university degrees and self-titled himself Count von Cosel, taking the name of an alleged ancestor. Her name was Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos. Despite his best efforts, Hoyos succumbed to her illness in October 1931, leaving her family and newly-obsessed caretaker heartbroken. He was cradling Hoyos doll. He slept with the body in his bed, but he kept a curtain between them because he was an extreme gentleman. Years later he was found living in a house near the sea and through an investigation by Elena's sister, it was found that he had been living with her corpse, preserving it with oiled silk and wax to slow the decomposition. Maria Elena Milagro Hoyos (1909 1931), more commonly referred to as Elena, was the middle born Cuban-American child of Francisco Hoyos (1883 1934) and Aurora Milagro (1881 1940) in Key West, Florida. He constantly applied disinfectants, deodorizer and formaldehyde to counteract the smells of putrefaction. But the curious began wondering why Von Cosel visited her night after night and when his visits stopped all assumed he had died. Bizzarrepedia Tanzler ignored the Marine Hospitals protocol for relationships between doctors and patients, and he became obsessed with Hoyos. She was only nice to him because my mother told her she should be kind to those who were kind to her. July 31, 1909, marks the birthdate of Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos, the daughter of a Key West cigar maker named Francisco "Pancho" Hoyos, and his wife, Aurora. So what does he do? The topic she has chosen for us is about Carl Tanzler aka Count Carl von Cosel and his obsession with the beautiful Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos aka Elena. Instead, he found plenty of things to do, including fashioning a wig for her once her hair fell out of her decomposing scalp. To use this feature, use a newer browser. Tanzler immediately and obsessively fell in love with Elena. 1910 - d. October 25, 1931; Key West, Florida, USA) Contents 1 Parents 2 Siblings 3 Marriage 4 Death Parents Francisco Hoyos (1883-1934), aka Pancho Hoyos Aurora Milagro (1881-1940) Siblings On February 18, 1926, she married Luis Mesa, but he left her shortly after she suffered a miscarriage of the couples first child. She was not someone important, and she never did anything of note other than die young of tuberculosis. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. Von Cosel had told me once: I have spent my whole life. 28, 67 69, Sagers, A. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. The Second Autopsy of Elena Hoyos Carl's madness was discovered. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. Episode: Maria Elena Milagro De Hoyos, the Unwilling Corpse Bride w/ special guest @rachaelnobrien 1. Maria Elena lies in some unmarked Floridian grave, in an 18 inch casket. [8] Tanzler filled the corpse's abdominal and chest cavity with rags to keep the original form, dressed Elena's remains in stockings, jewelry, and gloves, and kept the body in his bed. Instead, Marias mummified remains were put on display at Dean-Lopez Funeral Home. This article seeks to bring light to these, with the hope that people will learn what really happened as per these key findings. What he did next is unthinkable, and he never really paid a price for it.Join Ash, Alaina and special guest, comedian Rachel O'brien, as we dig deep into Karl's crazy world. Folk figure. John Dillinger was a gangster during the Great Depression. Learn about one of Key West's most haunted homes. Tanzler was evidently consumed by obsessive lust for Elena. Whether he meant me I did not know and cared less (p. 37). Aconite is a plant native to Northern Asia and Europe. Tanzler would extensively claim in this memoir, as well as during his 1940 court hearing and in numerous newspaper interviews that he had been seeing apparitions of Elena ever since he was a child, and it was the ghost of Elena that instructed him to enshrine her body in his home. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? If they only knew what was going on inside his home. Whether this is true or not, well never know the answer, but its not something we want to ponder too closely. And when she fell ill and her mother brought her into Marine Hospital in April of 1930, the disease would prove to be fatal. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Image credit: Florida KeysPublic Libraries, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. It isnt very far off to believe that necrophilia played a part in this twisted romance, but its important to remember these claims are not fully proven. Tanzler (1947) tells of many arguments he had with Elenas parents about her condition, the Cuban culture of smoking cigars, having numerous visitors at the house and taking Elena for car rides. He was later joined by his wife and children. It motivated many of his actions from the day he met her to the day he died; giving her free and unproven medical treatments, naming his wingless plane after her, building the mausoleum, taking her body, trying to reconstruct and restore it to life, even using the tube for intercourse as Dr. DePoo revealed (a sexual payoff), publishing a memoir, being found dead with a wax replica. But unfortunately, this was a true story. All right reserved. Carl died alone in 1952, at the age of 75. Being a radiology technician, he of course had to go full mad scientist and attempt to go high into the stratosphere, so that radiation from outer space could penetrate Elenas tissues and restore life to her somnolent form. Is necrophilia legal in outer space? Currently you have JavaScript disabled. Instead of a cure, she found a radiologist named Karl Tanzler who instantly became obsessed with her. Failed to delete memorial. Tanzler (born on February 8, 1877, in Dresden, Germany) knew from a young age that he had a soulmate. Considered one of the most toxic herbs, it has been used as a deadly poison throughout history (Wood, Coulson, Thompson and Bonner 2020). Despite the lack of qualifications needed to treat a tuberculosis patient, Tanzler was determined to save Hoyos and used a variety of specially-made tonics, elixirs, and medicines in an effort to do so. File photo of Carl Tanzler when he worked as a . What followed was an on-and-off relationship where Tanzlers medical treatments were accepted but his proposals of marriage were sidestepped. She forbade the family to let von Cosel know until she was too far across the border to be recalled (p.1). Shortly after Elenas death, Tanzler talked the family into giving him residence in her room, paying them a fee of $20 a month (about $345 in todays money). He inserted glass eyes into her orbitals, and replaced her rotting skin with silk cloth coated by plaster of paris and wax. Whats more, I do not love you. He became so persistent that we asked him to stay away from the house.. She reported him to the police, and Carl was arrested. There continued to be much conflict between him and Elenas family. Tanzler was undeterred though and searched the streets every night until a sympathetic neighbour told him of the location. This went on for two years. Once she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, he took it upon himself to do whatever he could to cure her and offered services free of charge. He was proud of the excellent attention hed given to her preservation and thought mistakenly that Elenas sister would feel the same. He carried on his love affair with her corpse. These cookies do not store any personal information. He would briskly stroll around town with a cane and show off wristwatches claiming to be commissioned to him by the Czar of Russia. St. Martins True Crime Classics. When the King grew tired of the feisty and headstrong Countess, he had her exiled, and she stayed that way for 49 years until her death. All of the sources that make claims about this are modern. He died under the name "Carl Tanzler". Copyright 2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Today, it seems even the dead body is no longer respected. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ", Learn how and when to remove this template message, Martello Gallery-Key West Art and Historical Museum, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, "Autopsy 6: Secrets of the Dead - The Strange Obsession of Dr. Carl Von Cosel", "The Living Doll of Key West: Elena Hoyos & Count Von Cosel", "Ep. 2022 Ghost City, Ghost City Tours. Happy for him, she decided to visit him and congratulate him on his relationship. He was seen shopping for womens clothing, jewelry and perfumes, and everybody assumed Carl was seeing someone new and had finally moved on. Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos [ edit] On April 22, 1930, while working at the Marine Hospital in Key West, Tanzler met Maria Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos (1909-1931), a local Cuban-American woman who had been brought to the hospital by her mother for an examination. 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