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28 paź 1992 · The five months the group spent trapped on the eastern side of the Sierra culminated in death and cannibalism. Of the 87 men, women and children in the Donner Party, 46 survived: two thirds of...
1 lip 2017 · The most infamous member of the party was a German emigrant named Lewis Keseberg. Give us a bit of background—and describe his heinous deeds.
5 lut 2017 · Lewis Keseberg was the last person retrieved from the snowbound hell that befell the Donner Party in 1846-‘47. Though he wasn’t the only member of the ill-fated group to resort to cannibalism, despite claims that it never happened, he was the only one tried for murder.
19 wrz 2018 · To the rescue party, it looked as though Keseberg had violated one of humanity's greatest taboos, one that went beyond mere cannibalism: Murdering a person—Tamzene—to feast on her body.
Keseberg confessed to cannibalizing the other survivors after their deaths, but when the rescuers accused him of murdering Tamsen Donner, Keseberg insisted that she died naturally after getting lost in the snow on the path from the Alder Creek camp to the lake cabins.
20 lis 2022 · A third relief party found Starved Camp on March 12, finding more signs of cannibalism—including the body of Isaac Donner. The final relief party reached the camps on April 17. Only one man was left: Louis Keseberg. He was alone, save for the mutilated remnants of his fellow travelers.
TIL Lewis Keseberg, the last of the Donner pioneers to be rescued, sued one of his rescuers for spreading horrifying tales that led to his reputation as the evilest of the party. He won, but only received one dollar. Half of the donner party died crossing what is now an hour and a half drive.
