vasabii/Getty Images/iStockphoto Case closed! The mystery of 100 brains missing from the University of Texas at Austin has been solved. The jars of pickled gray matter are at the San Antonio campus. Those missing brains from the University of Texas at Austin? They've been found in San Antonio.
After several news stories appeared Wednesday about 100 brains vanishing from the college, someone called from the University of Texas in San Antonio to say the 100 specimens in glass jars full of formaldehyde were just fine, and they'd been at the school for years.
"They have the brains," psychology professor Tim Schallert, co-curator of the collection, told the Los Angeles Times. "They read a media report of the missing brains and they called to say, 'We got those brains!'''
The 100 glass jars filled with human gray matter had been stored in a basement at the Austin institution. One of them is believed to have belonged to Charles Whitman, the 1966 clock tower sniper who killed 16 people before police killed him.
"We think somebody may have taken the brains, but we don't know at all for sure," Schallert earlier told the Austin American-Statesman.
The specimens were part of 200 human brains given to the university by the Austin State Hospital about 28 years ago. Half were stored in the Animal Resources Center's basement because there was room for only 100 jars in Schallert's psychology lab. They came mostly from patients at the mental hospital and were used to study Alzheimer's disease.
AP Charles Whitman, a 24-year-old student at the University of Texas, is seen in this 1966 photograph, the same year he killed 16 people in a shooting rampage at the Austin campus. One is thought to belong to Whitman, who shot to death 16 people, including his mother and his wife, with a high-powered rifle as he fired from the 307-foot clock tower on campus. The former Marine was killed by police.
It’s still a mystery whether Whitman’s addled brain is in Austin or San Antonio.
Until the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, Whitman’s campus rampage was the deadliest in U.S. history.
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