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This podcast covers mature, intense, morbid and sometimes just scary stuff.

Listener discretion is advised.

You'll need a pallet cleanser after this one,

folks. Buckle up for a bad romance told in 30 morbid minutes. This is the podcast where we cover topics, people, places, and history of a morbid, macab, dark, and downright grisly nature.

I'm Elise Willems.

And I'm Jessica Wasami.

And yes, it is that time of year.

Spring is just around the corner.

The birds are chirping. Hearts are a flutter

and love is in the air. Unfortunately, the subject of today's episode is anything but romantic.

The opposite, in fact, the very opposite. Oh, Lee. Okay. Yeah. Well, I mean, y'all knew what you're

getting yourselves into when you clicked. You knew. You know every time you clicked.

Yeah. So today we are talking about a weird, bizarre, gross, and deeply unsettling love story.

Love story, in quotes. We're covering the case of a deranged 12th century doctor who took his obsessive crush to morbid extremes.

Our story begins in Dresden, a city in the then-German Empire on February 8, 1877.

This was the day that Carl Tanzler came into the world.

Should have gone right out. Not much is known about Carl's childhood or early

life. We know who he became as an adult and the horrific act Carl would go on to commit,

but when it comes to his adolescence and young adulthood, it's difficult to separate fact

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