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Whit Monday, May 26, 1828. Nuremberg, Bavaria. Around 4 p.m. a scrawny pale teenager appears on Unschlittplatz square carrying two letters and barely able to walk. One letter claims to be from a poor laborer who has kept the boy locked away since infancy. The other, supposedly from the boy's mother, was written ten years earlier and begs that he be enlisted in his father's old cavalry regiment. The boy can speak only a handful of sentences. He repeats one phrase the most: I want to be a horseman as my father was. He writes his name as Kaspar Hauser. He cries at loud sounds, flinches from sunlight, and eats only bread and water. He says he lived his whole life in a small dark cell with a wooden toy horse for a companion and was fed by a hooded man he never saw clearly. The respected jurist Anselm von Feuerbach takes up his case and comes to suspect Kaspar is the rightful heir of the Grand Duke of Baden, switched at birth with a dying infant by the rival Hochberg line, his true mother Stephanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of Napoleon. In October 1829 Kaspar is found bleeding from a head wound, attacked by a hooded man. On December 14, 1833 he is lured into the Ansbach court gardens and stabbed in the chest. He dies three days later, around 21 years old. A small purse with a coded note is the only clue. DNA tests in 1996 and 2002 are inconclusive. His killer was never named.

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