After the death of some of the world's great figures, their remains have been preserved so that people can look at and remember his contributions, such as Lenin's body. Others are preserving parts of the body, such as Einstein's brain, and his brain was originally preserved for research. In a medical school in Portugal, there is also a person whose head has been preserved for 180 years. It is just that this man is not a great man with outstanding contributions, but a man who has committed a crime, and his head is also left because of his sin.
Born into a peasant family in Spain, this man's name was Diogo Alves, and he was originally an obedient and sensible child, but his personality gradually changed due to an accident. And this accident was that he fell off the back of the cow, his face was injured and scarred, so that he was always teased by other children of the same age, so Alves had an unhappy childhood, which also prompted him to embark on a road of no return.
Alves had little knowledge or skill, and had developed a habit of laziness, so his family sent him elsewhere to earn a living. At the age of 19, he came to Lisbon, Portugal, where he found a very tiring manual job, because he could not bear the hardships and often changed jobs, and during the period he also contracted some vices, such as alcoholism and gambling. In order to be able to have more money, Alves set his sights on the famous Agua River Aqueduct.
This aqueduct is a magnificent waterway bridge, and although it does not look strong enough, it is intact in the event of an earthquake and is also a magical building. And this has also become a place for Alves to make money and kill people, because there are many businessmen passing by here, and Alves finds an opportunity to push them off the bridge and finally take all his money. Since then, there have been continuous discoveries of corpses in this place, because of the technical limitations at that time, people can not find out what the cause is, and they think it is suicide.
In three years, 70 bodies were found, a staggering number that no longer felt like a simple suicide. After the police investigation, it was found that many of the deceased's identities were businessmen, but no property was seen on them, and such a finding also made people suspect that these deceased people died from the same murderer. In fact, during the years of the crime, Alves also had many accomplices, and in the end he was arrested for robbing a gang and killing people.
In court, the daughter of one of Alves's accomplices testified against him, telling him all the crimes of his mother and others, and in 1841 Alves was finally punished and hanged. After his death, under the influence of the "phrenology" epidemic at that time, medical personnel strongly wanted to study this serial killer, so they took his head off and saved it. This head is still well preserved at the University of Lisbon, and with its eyes open, many people can't help but be afraid to see it.