Exhumation and history await. Liz Spikol: Before his death, his body was the subject of some debate. The Wistar Institute wanted to buy his brain, but Holmes wouldnt allow it. When he died, the undertaker--following Holmes orders--filled his coffin with cement, put his body in and covered it with more cement. At Holy Cross the coffin was lowered 10 feet into the ground and covered with yet more cement. There is no headstone, and the place where hes buried is now a large patch of grass. Though Holmes intention was to keep his body from being dug up, this inattention afforded him something else: anonymity. Without any marker on his grave--and with a new century beginning--Holmes and his crimes slowly receded into the annals of history. Finding his grave now is like a macabre parlor game.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:52:27 +0000
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