The Chilling Story of One-Eyed Joe and Body-Snatching in the Late 1800s
‘They dig up corpses and sold them to medical schools’
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6 min readDec 4, 2021
John Frankford, more commonly known as One-Eyed Joe, was a famous horse thief. Throughout the mid and late 80s, he traveled from Ohio to Maryland, narrowly escaping the law as he stole and sold horses. In 1895, he was imprisoned in Philadelphia’s Eastern…
