Julia Pastrana's husband sold her embalmed body after she died in 1860, and it was exhibited, stolen and stored in Oslo until Mexico buried it in 2013

Julia Pastrana, born in Sinaloa, Mexico, toured Europe and America with her husband and manager Theodore Lent, whom she married in Baltimore on 10 November 1855. She died in Moscow on 25 March 1860, days after giving birth to a son who died within days. Lent had both bodies embalmed by Professor Sokolov of Moscow University. He reclaimed them under a clause in his contract and exhibited them in London from 1862 and across Europe. Lent later married Marie Bartel, who performed as "Zenora Pastrana" with the bodies displayed behind her. After Lent died in an asylum, Marie sold the bodies and they passed through fairs and museums. In 1921 Norwegian carnival manager Haakon Lund bought them in Berlin. Sweden banned their display in 1973. In 1976 teenagers broke into Lund's storehouse near Oslo, tore off Julia's arm and wrecked her son's body. One account dates her theft to 1979^†. In 1990 journalists found her body in the basement of Oslo's Institute of Forensic Medicine. Norway's ethics committee ruled in 2008 that she likely would not have wanted to stay a specimen. Her body was returned to Mexico and buried near her birthplace in Sinaloa de Leyva in February 2013, with hundreds attending.