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Season 1 (Episode 20) Johann Otto Hoch

 "I am done with this world!" 
-John Schmidt (1906)





Civil War era embalming of soldiers before being sent home for burial.











Sources for this episode:
1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/arsenic-and-old-graves-civil-war-era-cemeteries-may-be-leaking-toxins-180957115/
2. https://gemeinde-horrweiler.de/geschichte/
3. https://serialkillercalendar.com/Johann%20Otto%20HOCH.php
4. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29941276/johann-otto-hoch
5. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bluebeard
6. https://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-history-cop/2016/02/johann-hoch-hung-110-years-ago-today-his-last-moments-on-earth/
7. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/05/abraham-lincoln-embalming/

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