A rare and creepy finding came to light in a museum in the United Kingdom: a book tied to the skin of one of the most notorious murderers in the country, William Corder. The Corder was publicly convicted and executed in 1828 at Bury St Edmunds for the murder of his mistress, Maria Marten, who had burying under the floor of a barn in Suffolk, having previously promised that they would pop it together for Ipswich. The case became known as the “murder of the red barn” in 1827. According to the Daily Mail, after his arrest, Corder was tried, executed and then his body was dismembered. Part of his skin was used for the bookbinding of a book that tells the story of his crime, which is on display at the Moyse’s Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds from 1933. Recently a second copy of the same book was found, also tied with human skin, on the shelf of a museum’s office. […]
Source: News Beast
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