Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 25, 2012
Today’s Ridiculous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Excerpt from the Badger State Banner newspaper, January 23, 1890:
John Kuhni, charged with the murder of William Christian in the town of Primrose, December 12, 1888… pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to life imprisonment… [His] crime was the most atrocious ever committed in Dane County… About December 23, 1888, 2 boys while fishing found a sack in the water. They opened it and found… portions of a human body. It was found that Christian had been killed, his body cut in small pieces, part of the remains burned, part placed in a sack and thrown in a creek, and others packed in a valise and carried away by the murderer… In his confession… Kuhni says that he killed Christian because he ridiculed his religion and laughed at him for reading the Bible.
Culled from: My favorite book, Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy
