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The Casual Criminalist

Carl Tanzler: The Man Who Stole a Corpse and Lived With It for 7 Years.

The Casual Criminalist

Cloud10

True Crime

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Explore Carl Tanzler’s horrifying obsession with Elena de Hoyos—grave robbing, corpse preservation, twisted romance, and eerie experiments—in this chilling true story that inspired comparisons to serial killer Ed Gein himself. Sponsor: shopify.com/casual - sign up for your $1 per month trial today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Greetings from the Bluegrass State. That's Kentucky, if y'all didn't know. We want to tell you about the hottest new podcast on the block, Coffee and Cases. If you fancy yourself an at-home detective. If you find yourself yelling at the TV during that new true crime documentary, then you, my friend, are a certified sleuthound.

0:21.9

Just like us.

0:27.8

On Coffee and Cases podcast, you'll hear about the missing, the murdered, and the unsolved.

0:31.6

But the cases you've rarely, if ever, heard about.

0:37.4

All from the perspective of two teacher friends, rule followers, and self-proclaimed scarity cats.

0:38.9

Join me, Allison, and me, Maggie, each week as we take on cases that are often overlooked,

0:45.4

but are screaming for justice.

0:47.6

Coffee in Cases is a true crime guilty pleasure that you don't actually have to feel guilty

0:52.5

about.

0:53.8

Check out Coffee in Cases every week for a new episode on your favorite podcasting app.

1:01.4

Hello, really, welcome back to another episode of The Casual Criminals.

1:04.0

Today, Carl, who stole a corpse and lived with it for seven years.

1:09.7

Carl, what the fuck you up to, bro?

1:11.8

I don't know who... Oh, sorry, I do know who wrote this. Katie wrote it. Thank you. It's right here.

1:17.1

All right, so the format of the show, if you knew here, never read this before. We're going to read it

1:20.5

together, dear audience. Let us jump in.

1:35.5

Picture this. A man falls in love with a woman who's suffering from a horrifying disease.

1:41.7

Well, that's terrible. Desperate to save her life, he tries everything he can, but she ends up succumbing and passing away at a young age.

1:45.7

So far, so weepy tragedy romance. Wrecked with grief,

1:50.3

the man vows not to let death stand in the way of their love and tries to preserve it forever.

1:59.7

Literally, bro, what you're doing? What you doing? Please know. This is the extremely disturbing story of Eleanor de Hoyos and Carl Tanzler, who was convinced

2:03.9

they were meant to be together for eternity and didn't let the fact that Eleanor was dead get in his

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