The mummified head of
famous spy Mata Hari is missing from its home at the Museum of Anatomy in
Paris. A recent inventory of the museum's holdings revealed that the head
was missing.
Hari, convicted of spying
for Germany in 1917, was executed that year. She faced a firing squad,
refusing a blindfold. She also was said to have blown a kiss to the squad members before they fired. Sometime afterward, her head was removed from her
body and taken to the Paris museum which houses the heads and brains of
many other known criminals, among other items.
Roger Saban, the museum's
curator, believes that an admirer or collector somehow walked off with the
famous head.
