The story of Carl Tanzler and Elena de Hoyos is one of obsession that goes beyond the unthinkable. Despite her rejections to his advances before her death in 1930, Tanzler was simply incapable of accepting "no" and would later exhume her corpse in the dead of night in one of the most infamous cases of necrophilic fascination in history. The horror of what he did to preserve her remains in his home carried on for more than 7 years before her body was discovered in his possession. 

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