Sixty years after tourist stole skull from cathedral, he sends it back
Published: 10/31/2025

Tourist returns stolen skull to Vienna Cathedral after 60 years: A man in Germany sent back a skull he took as a tourist decades ago from Vienna's St Stephen's Cathedral catacombs. The return was a surprise to the cathedral, with the skull arriving in a cardboard box with an explanatory letter. The skull was among 11,000 people buried in the cathedral's catacombs during the 18th Century.



