Enoch Leng was a scientist in the 1870s who had a laboratory above the Shottum's Cabinet of Natural Productions and Curiosities. During the time that Leng had this lab in Shottum's, he would use it to kidnap young street children and use them in his experiments to find a way to prolong his life. Eventually Shottum became aware of these murders and was killed when Leng caused a fire that burned down the Cabinet. Later, in the early 2000s, while excavating a site for a glass apartment building, a construction crew broke through to the basement room where Leng hid his victims. In an article about the site, Bill Smithback describes the killings in details, spanning what the press believes is a copycat killer dubbed the Surgeon.
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