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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.
28 paź 1992 · They found Lewis Keseberg in his cabin, delirious, surrounded by the half-eaten dead. No one else was alive. Tamsen Donner’s body was never found. Keseberg confessed to eating her remains.
11 maj 2021 · Lewis Keseberg, a 32-year-old German immigrant who had been traveling with his family and already reportedly eaten two children, also remained behind. These last survivors pinned their hopes on a fourth relief party.
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.
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.
Immediately after the discovery of their ordeal, rumors of what had truly occurred in the ramshackle tents and cabins of the Donner Party camps included sensationalized accounts of cannibalism that made the story infamous across the nation.
