Police – Doyle's Space

Carl Tanzler & Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos

He visited the tomb nightly, claiming he could hear Elena’s voice calling to him and that her spirit wished to be with him.

Carl Tanzler, born Karl Wilhelm Tanzler on February 8, 1877, in Dresden, Germany, is remembered less for his own life than for the disturbing fixation that defined it, a fixation centered on a young Cuban American woman named Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos. After immigrating to the United States, Tanzler settled in Florida and eventually found work as a radiology technician at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Key West.

Carl Tanzler was also known as Count Carl von Cosel

Grave Robberies at Mount Moriah Cemetery

The cemetery became the scene of an extraordinary and deeply disturbing series of grave robberies.

Mount Moriah Cemetery, established in the 1850s along the Philadelphia–Yeadon border, is one of the largest and most historically significant burial grounds in Pennsylvania, containing tens of thousands of interments spanning the Civil War era through the twentieth century. Long plagued by abandonment, overgrowth,

Why are They Called Billy Clubs?

A balance between a tool of last resort and a visible symbol of civic authority.

The billy club is one of the oldest and most recognizable tools of law enforcement, a short, stout baton designed to provide police and security officers with a means of defense, control, and symbolic authority. The term “billy” seems to have arisen from mid-nineteenth century American slang,