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
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