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| Jack the Ripper - East End madman |
Dr. L. Forbes Winslow, perhaps best known for his relentless (and fruitless) attempts to identify the person behind London's Jack the Ripper murders, also was a well-known psychiatrist.
Among his many notes on his practice was the report of a heartbroken man who requested that, after his death, his body should be boiled down to extract the fat.
That fat would be used to make a candle which, along with a letter from the deceased, would be delivered to the woman who jilted him.
He even specified that the items should be delivered at night, so the woman would read the letter by the light of the "corpse candle."