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...more teeth and several bone fragments. On the outskirts of nearby Sao Paulo, police descended once again on the dilapidated bungalow where the mystery man was said to have lived, and uncovered two bullets and a box of medical supplies. Then, returning to the home of Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert, self-proclaimed friends of the dead man, policemen came upon a tape that featured martial music and a speech by Adolf Hitler at a rally. The pieces of the puzzle were coming together, and they suggested that the body found at Embu did indeed belong to the "Angel of Death...
...Bossert story raised almost as many questions as it answered. "Why would anyone keep such incriminating letters or identity papers?" asked French Nazi Hunter Serge Klarsfeld, referring to the documents found in the home of the Bosserts as well as in Sedlmeier's. Why had the Mengele family not announced Josef's death six years ago, and so freed itself of all the negative publicity thrown up by the case? What about the many sightings over the years of Mengele in Paraguay, even as recently as last summer? And why had the Bosserts taken up with an infamous mass murderer...
...some degree, the revelations in West Germany complemented the stories provided by new witnesses in Brazil. In her attractive white house in the affluent hillside community of Petropolis Park, outside Sao Paulo, a nervous Gitta Stammer, who had earlier come forward to support and supplement the Bossert account, told her story to TIME's Jacqueline Reditt. Her face pale and worried, her hands trembling, the slight, 65-year-old Hungarian-born woman described how she and her family had kept a longtime lodger's secret for 22 anxious years...
...Bosserts' part in their alleged protection of the former Nazi remained equally mysterious, particularly given Wolfram Bossert's vigorous denial of any Nazi affiliation. After raiding the Bossert home, Tuma noted that ! everything to do with the doctor was arranged lovingly and with great care. Apparently, said Tuma, "the couple had veneration for Mengele as a great leader...
Arguing against at least one aspect of the Bossert story, the drowning, was the revelation of Marc Berkowitz, who as a twelve-year-old in 1944 had been one of Mengele's guinea pigs, and also served the doctor as a messenger boy. From his home in New City, N.Y., Berkowitz recalled that the doctor "had a phobia about water. He was afraid of water-carried diseases." Mengele told Berkowitz that he never swam in rivers or lakes. In Brazil, meanwhile, a dentist said that she had treated a man just like Mengele two months after the alleged drowning...