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The man who turned a corpse into his bride

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Dr. Carl Tanzler took 'till death do us part' entirely too literally. Obsessed with a young tuberculosis patient, he dug up her corpse, wired her decaying bones together, stuffed her rotting chest cavity with rags, and slapped a crude wax mask on her skull. He slept next to his homemade Frankenstein bride for seven years before the authorities finally interrupted his putrid romance.

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