Elena Hoyos Mesa’s tomb in the Key West Cemetery.

TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / April 14, 1941
1941 Karl Tanzler a.k.a. Von Cosel, the man who had kept the remains of Elena Hoyos Mesa for seven years until discovered in October of 1940, left Key West for Zephyrhills. Hours after he left town the tomb he had built for Elena in the Key West Cemetery was destroyed by a violent explosion.
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