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Was Louis Keseberg, the last rescued survivor of the infamous Donner Party, more than just a man driven to desperate survival? In this chilling exploration, ...
From Donner! the rock opera.
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.
Lewis Keseberg, a German immigrant, seems to have borne the brunt of public scorn, branded a cannibal who enjoyed eating humans. In an interview with Charles MacGlashan, who wrote an 1890 account of the Donner Party, he stated “It makes my blood curdle to think of it!
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. A...
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.
11 maj 1986 · Tamsen Donner died at Donner Lake, following the death of her husband. The lone survivor at the camp, Lewis Keseberg, later confessed to cannibalizing her body.
