Demented Love

November 28, 2015

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THE DEMENTED LOVE

OF

DOCTOR CARL VON COSEL

     Some time in the 1920's, a man named Carl Tanzler (who later became Carl Von Cosel) immigrated from Germany to the United States, leaving behind in Germany a wife and two young daughters and settled in the Florida Keys. He'd worked as an x-ray technician and inventor, barely able to make a living but claimed to many that he had been an ex submarine skipper and had nine different college degrees. In 1927, he found employment at a local Florida Keys hospital in their tuberculosis ward using the name Carl Von Cosel and shortly thereafter, he sent for his family in Germany who came to live with him. But his marriage ended shortly afterward, the reason for it's ending is not quite clear.

     Many years before, Von Cosel claims to have been visited by a long dead ancestor, the Countess Anna Constantia Von Cosel who revealed to him the face of his true love, an exotic dark haired woman. It was in April of 1930, while working in that Florida Keys hospital that he met such an exotic dark haired woman by the name of Elena Milagro de Hoyos who had come to the hospital for tests. Elena was by all accounts, a most beautiful woman and according to Von Cosel, he'd recognized her as the woman from his vision decades earlier. The daughter of a local cigar maker, Elena was married to a man named Luis Mesa but the two were separated with Mesa having left her after the miscarriage of their daughter, and moved to Miami. Elena was eventually diagnosed with having tuberculosis, which at the time was always fatal. Von Cosel, with his self-professed medical knowledge, attempted to treat Elena in all manner of ways, using a variety of medicines, as well as x-ray and other medical equipment brought to the Hoyos home with the hopes of curing her, all the while professing his love for the exotic beauty, showering the family and Elena with gifts of jewelry and clothing, but not a shred of evidence exists showing that his love was reciprocated by her. And despite Von Cosel's best efforts, Elena died from tuberculosis on October 25th, 1931 at her parents home in Key West.

     Von Cosel paid for Elena's funeral expenses and with the permission of her family, commissioned the construction of an above ground mausoleum in the Key West Cemetery, which he visited almost every night. But his obsession with Elena was great and one night in the spring of 1933, Von Cosel entered the cemetery and removed Elena's body from her resting place and transported her remains to his home. Von Cosel would often relate to those who interviewed him that Elena's spirit would often come to him while he sat there at her grave and serenade her with her favorite Spanish song and he often spoke of how her spirit would beg him to remove her body from the grave.

     He would hold the bones of her decaying body together using wire and coat hangers, and fitted her with glass eyes. As her skin decomposed he used silk cloth soaked in wax and plaster of paris and made a wig out of her hair when it too began to fall out. He filled her corpse with rags in order so the body would keep it's original form and into her abdominal cavity he poured vast amounts of perfume and disinfectant and other chemicals to forestall the effects

of decomposition and to keep the odor away. He dressed her body in jewelry and fine clothing and kept her in his bed. There were even stories of how he fashioned a tube which he inserted into her vaginal area so that he could have sex with her!

     It wasn't until sometime in 1940 that one of Elena's relatives had began to hear rumors of Von Cosel sleeping with Elena's disinterred corpse and notified authorities. When Elena's body was discovered, Von Cosel was arrested on a number of charges including the wonton and malicous destruction of a grave and removing a body without authorization. He underwent psychological testing and was found competent for trial. Elena's body was examined and then placed on display at the local funeral home where it was viewed by nearly 7,000 people before being removed and re-buried in a secret location to prevent further tampering. As for Von Cosel, he was eventually released since the statute of limitations for the crimes he had been charged with had all expired.

     In 1944, Von Cosel moved to Pasco County Florida, where he wrote his auto-biography which later was published in Fantastic Adventures. He obtained citizenship in 1950, in Tampa and separated from his obsession, he used a death mask of Elena to create a life size effigy of her and lived with it until his death in 1952. It was said that upon the discovery of his body, he was clutching the life size effigy of Elena. His body was found on the floor of his home, three weeks after his death according to reports...

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The Story of a Serial Killer

Anatoly Onoprienko

     Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko was born in the village of Lasky, in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Sovet Union on July 25, 1959 and was the younger of two sons belonging to Yuri Onoprienko, a hero of the Soviet Union during World War II. When he was four, his mother died and for a time, he was cared for by his grandparents and an aunt before being turned over to an orphanage in the village of Privitnoe. According to Onoprienko, he resented his father for giving him away while his brother, who was 13 years older, continued to stay at home. In one interview, Onoprienko alleged that it was this that predetermined his destiny and remarked that seventy percent of those brought up at the orphanage ended up in prison as adults. He grew up to hate and despise the family unit that had been denied to him in his childhood and in 1989, after years of mental problems and menial jobs, Onoprienko killed his first victims at the age of 30, which in terms of the average age for serial killers, was old. But over the next five years he made up for his slow start, killing 11 others individually and virtually going unnoticed by local authorities.

     

     Onoprienko began his murderous campaign in 1989 with Serhiy Rogozin, and accomplice when the two robbed and killed 9 people, the first being a couple who had been standing by their Lada car on a motorway. "I just shot them." He later said of the murders. "Not that it gave me pleasure, but because I felt this urge. From then on it was almost like some video game!" He'd gone on to say. "corpses are ugly. They stink and send out bad vibes. Once I killed 5 people and then sat in the car with their bodies for 2 hours, not knowing what to do with them. The smell was unbearable!" He later claimed that he had been hearing voices since the age of seven and it was these voices that drove him to murder. 

     For a time, the voices in his head were still. He made attempts to work as a sailor for a while and then he went to university to study forestry but in the later part of 1995, he once more went on a murder spree, this time alone and over the next 6 months, killed 43 people. In March of 1996, police began to panic as the number of bodies rose and soon, a manhunt was launched across western Ukraine involving over 2,000 police and 3,000 miltia, when eight families were brutally murdered in their homes. Many of Onoprienko's victims lived in remote villages in the Lvov region near the border with Poland. He blew the doors off homes on the edges of villages, gunning down adults and battering children with metal objects. He stole money, jewelry, stereo equipment and other items before burning down the house. His blood lust climaxed with a 3 month massacure, where he began the systematic slaughter of families in the villages of Bratkovichi and Busk. Troops were mobilized in the area to try and assist those still living in the area as well as trying to catch the man who had been dubbed "The Terminator."

     Finally, on April 16, 1996, 37 year old Anatoly Onoprienko was arrested at his girlfriend's house in Zhitomir, western Ukraine after one of his own relatives, a cousin, who informed on him to police when he discovered his stash of weapons and other items. He was found with a 12-guage, TOZ-34 shotgun and numerous other weapons which would eventually be linked to several of the murders, along with a number of other items he took from his victims including an engagement ring his girlfriend had been wearing, which he'd obtained by cutting off the ring finger of one of his victims. Already known to authorities, when he was finally arrested, he quickly confessed to 8 of the killings, but denied all of the others which police had been able to link him to. 

 

     At his trial, which began in November of 1998, Onoprienko stated that he felt like a robot driven for years by a dark force and that he shouldn't be tried until they could determine the source of this force. During interrogations by police, he had claimed that he was the center of a conspiracy by Interpol and the CIA, his attorney making attempts to get him declared unfit to stand trial which failed. Onoprienko had claimed to have special powers and that he had information that not even the President had access to. He said he had permission to kill from another world but did not explain further. He went on to say that he had been prepared to kill his own son.

Onoprienko was found guilty in the end and sentenced to death. Due however to Ukraine having pledged as a member of the Council of Europe to suspend capital punishment and eventually ban it, his death sentence was never carried out. His sentence was commuted to life in prison in August of 1999.

On August 27, 2013 at the age of 54, Anatoly Onoprienko died in prison of a heart attack.

In total, between 1989 and 1996, he committed 52 murders, murdering 43 of his victims within a six month time frame. In an interview prior to his death he stated that he never felt any remorse and said that if he were ever to be let out of prison, he would start killing again. He viewed what he did was akin to like hunting deer. He would be sitting bored and the thought would enter into his head and the only way he could rid himself of the thought was to act upon it. He considered what he was doing as a process of culling the herd.

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