Casefile Extra: Elena Milagro Hoyos
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Casefile Extra: Elena Milagro Hoyos

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 10, 20261 hr 3 min
  • Documentary
  • Crime & justice

Casefile Extra features bonus episodes exploring compelling cases, stories and topics beyond our regular weekly releases. When 20-year-old newlywed Elena Milagro Hoyos was diagnosed with tuberculosis in the spring of 1930, her family took her to the Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida, for treatment. There, they met a German-born scientist named Carl Tanzler, who promised that he – and he alone – could save Elena from certain death. The Hoyos family’s despair quickly turned to hope, but little did they know the disturbing lengths Carl would go to preserve Elena’s life. ---</p...

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For suggested phone numbers for confidential support, and for a more detailed list of content warnings, please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website. It was around 2am on a dreary night in 1899 when 22-year-old Karl Tanslar was awoken by the feeling that he was being watched. A budding young scientist, Karl lived in his family's

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estate, the Villa Cozol, just outside Dresden, Germany. According to his mother, the estate had previously belonged to their ancestor, Countess Anna Constantia von Cozol, a German noblewoman and mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. Although the Countess died in 1765, several members of the Tanzler family had reported seeing her ghost roaming the halls at night, her long hair glowing white in the darkness.

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