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Subscribe to RSSTo the people who found the room, it looked like a scene from a horror film. Last month, staff at the University of Cologne in Germany discovered a basement room in the institute of anatomy filled with more than 100 human corpses and plastic buckets labeled, “noses,” “newborns” and “shark head,” the Guardian reported. It appeared they had been abandoned for a decade or longer.
A staff member told a German newspaper that the cooling system had broken and that the room smelled putrid.
An investigation is ongoing, the Guardian reported, and the corpses of people who had donated their bodies to science are slowly being identified.
As rumors swirled around the university about the macabre findings last month, Professor Jürgen Koebke, 66, the former director of the institute of anatomy, was found dead under a bridge in Cologne. Authorities believe the professor, respected by staff and students, stabbed himself to death.
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I know, right? That's all we get?
You can click on the link and read more....
Wow. Not a lot of guns in the EU.
Stabbed himself to death? How many times?
Kinda reminds me of the 'story' about the guy who shot himself in the head 5 times. (Worst case of suicide I ever saw.) Bwahahahahaha.
There's no conspiracy here folks, keep moving. (Heavy sarcasm applied)
Bet it explains why the janitors were never able to get rid of the building's funky smell.
Ever go into a building and it just doesn't smell right no matter how clean it is? Makes you wonder...
Uh, stab yourself to death? You don't just stab yourself to death. I suspect foul play was involved in Professor Koebke's death. That might even be possibly linked to the room with all the bodies in it. I sincerely hope that nothing sinister was being done to the corpses and that they were being studied for the proper academic purposes. However, I don't think that a room, kept a temperature to preserve the bodies, would just be abandoned and forgotten by the school. Something is wrong with this picture or the author left out crucial details.
Nalloart, I sure hope the authorities contact you right away for leads in the case, because you obviously know critical information. I mean, you must know how the Samurai merely acted like they were committing suicide with their swords without actually stabbing themselves! Hell, I'm going to stop reading the online news and try to just follow your postings online for my daily news updates! Thanks Nallo!
Nallo
You're Nancy Grace aren't you?
cool pseudo-identity.
Keep at it Nancy, everyone loves you.
Samurai kill themselves with swords for cultural reasons related to honor and shame. Other than that, it is a horrible way to kill yourself. Professor Jürgen Koebke doesn't sound Japanese, so, yes, stabbing himself to death is suspicious. That it happened in public, more so. Throw in a 100 cadavers, forgotten in a room... At the very least, it bears further investigation.
He was an ANATOMY professor. All those corpses found are pretty common in most anatomy departments. No story here.
Whocares,
Are you an a$$ on purpose, or is it genetic? Just curious. Not that I agree with everything Nallowart said, but speculation is what makes this crap interesting.
I find it strange that that room had not been entered for 10 years! What kind of cleaning crew they have there!? And the death of the Professor during the time of the discovery (hence, the mention of his death in the story) does seem strange.
And stabbing yourself to death is one of the least likely methods of suicide out there, not withstanding the Samurai. Pills and alcohol being the norm. With handguns being hard to get, and a hunting rifle difficult to carry around, I would think he would have found a way that would be more likely to be fatal on the first try, and not so very painful. It would take a hell of a lot of pain tolerance to stab yourself. More than almost anyone could stand.
Ahhhh, speculation is such fun!
@MSG
Yeah, that's right up there with "committed suicide with a shot gun....shot once in the chest and once in the head". I would have to agree that something doesn't seem right due to the circumstances.
Donate your body to science...... but maybe NOT at that university.........
Stabbing yourself to death. Dang, talk about the sincerest form of self-criticism ...
In a day filled with odd stories, this one wins the prize. Is there no oversight in these situations?
you forgot about the body parts taken from corpses and sold here in the US.
These liberal college professors are just nuts
There is always some idiot that tries to involve politics...
I'm sure it was Obama's fault!
I blame Polk.
MSpielman
Cute...Polk.
Too creepy!
Body Of Evidence,
Just when you think that you have heard some really strange stories, something like this makes the news. The discovery of a hundred putrifying bodies and body parts in a university basement is simply ghoulish. I'm guessing that some of the people that found this fiendish scene will be experiencing a few nightmares ... rather similar to the detectives that first entered Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment in Milwaukee some years ago. Bizarre.
Peace
Uhh?
Did the professor leave any note behind that might have indicated he wanted to join the gang in the basement?
Click on the link, apparently, there was a note....
There was a time in Germany they would call you lazy and write you up if you only had 100 corpses in your basement.
. . . ya think?
I don't know. It could be just bad writing, but I'm curious about how this professor 'stabbed himself to death' too. Are we talking just one good stab or more? If it's more, than I also find it hard to believe. It would also depend on where they stabbed themselves cause unless the good prof had himself a very sharp instrument...well you would think the author of this piece would have stated something like 'bled to death' from a stab wound if it was one stab someplace simple, but 'stabbed himself to death?' Seems like very odd phrasing that would involve more than one stab, if so, I don't believe it.
hmmmmmm....curious thing to be curious about....
Not really, linguistics can often be very telling. The writer inadvertently points to their own shortcomings as a journalist. They've thrown in this bit about a professor's death to imply a connection between him and the bodies discovered without giving the necessary details to connect the two. That probably means there is no connection and the writer just used the tidbit to disgracefully sensationalize the story. Either that or someone cut the crucial details through sloppy editing.
He did right. Saved the tax payers over there tons of money.
Hasn't anyone here ever heard of falling on your sword?
Well, most often that's ritual suicide and is culturally dependent. If you look at the statistics of suicide methods in men, stabbing or cutting is pretty rare. Guns, tend to be the top choice, followed by hanging.
Dr`s Frank and Stein are gonna be mad when they find their stash gone
Was there a jar labeled "Abbie Normal"?
The noses were Michael Jackson's botched attempts! All colors and sizes!
Another badly written (and misleadingly titled) article. MSN, please, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE hire some editors!!
I used to think the same. I now treat it as game. You now, a cross word or a word search, a puzzle of sorts.
'How many spelling errors will I find in this story? What terrible phrasing will they use next?' And when I get tired and no longer find it amusing, I go to Fox news :)
Dang. I think this school might have some issues. Pee-U
If you want to donate your body to science make sure you are dead before they take you !
Just is an isolated case of zombitosis, and about the professor, I will have my people contact their people immediately.
How can you possibly stab yourself "to death"?
Blame America. Clearly its our fault that there is a Professor who stabbed himself and had 100 corpses hidden in the basements of a University. Perhaps he watched too much MTV... or whatever... just do what everyone else in the world does to deflect attention and blame from themselves, and point at us Americans... c'mon... you know you want to!
Which one of these is not like the others: Noses, fingers, arms, legs, SHARK HEADS.
and the original article syas " the public prosecutor's office has said there is no evidence of any crime." Really, in a room filled with more than 100 corpses? Well, it is Germany!