Finding Love Later In Life Is Great, But Was This Love Or A Creepy Fetish?

Old Cow
8 min readNov 19, 2023

Carl Tanzler’s Terrifying, Deadly Obsession

In 1930, 53-year-old Carl Tanzler fell in love with 21-year-old Elena de Hoyos who was dying of tuberculosis in a Florida hospital.

Convinced that this young woman was the love of his life, Carl did everything he could to save her. He tried everything from homemade

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