Thought I'd post an article from a mag I help edit. George Parkman was murdered and dismembered by a professional rival who hid his body (parts) in one of the Med School buildings!
http://alumnibulletin.med.harvard.ed...ies/murder.php
"On the morning of November 23, 1849, George Parkman donned a purple silk vest, a dark frock coat and trousers, and a black stovepipe hat. He strode purposefully through the WestEnd of Boston, his lower jaw jutting forward in the characteristic way that had earned him the moniker ??The Chin.? He collected rent from several tenants, purchased a head of lettuce at Quincy Market for his ailing daughter, and stopped to order butter and sugar from a local grocer. He then mounted the steps of Harvard??s medical college*, a building that had been opened, amid much pomp and circumstance, just three years earlier on land donated by Parkman himself.
Parkman regarded the medical college as something of a jewel in his real estate empire and proudly called it ??a piece of the Holy Land.? During that Friday before Thanksgiving, however, the medical college was about to play host to events far removed from the sacred; George Parkman, esteemed Harvard alumnus, physician, and real estate mogul, did not leave the building alive..."
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Originally Posted by amaranthaseven
