5 Of The Most Bizarre High-Profile Cases You Need To Know About

Mystery Number 3, The Woman Of The Seine

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In the year 1880, a young woman was pulled out of the River Seine at the Quai du Louvre in Paris. Although sadly the girl was dead, her body was in perfect condition, with zero indications of any suspected murder or assault on her anywhere. At the Paris morgue, the pathologist ruled her death as a suicide since he couldn’t find any damage done. And he was so taken by her beauty that he decided to make a death mask of her face using wax plaster.

Presenting Her For All To See

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During those times, it was common practice to put dead bodies on display in case someone could positively identify the body. Unfortunately, the young girl didn’t have a single person who could say who she was, or how her body had ended up in the River Seine. But despite that, her haunting death mask began receiving recognition and fame when copies were made and used as ‘artwork’ in shops in France and Germany.

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