# Who has taken Charles Whitman's brain? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221 "2014-12-03T14:04:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221/21 "2014-12-04T06:30:29Z")
Brain? Brain? What is brain? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221/22 "2014-12-04T06:43:24Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I hadn’t realized the Texas education system was destroying minds in quite so literal a fashion. And that was 12 years ago. Those people were still alive then! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221/23 "2014-12-04T14:14:43Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > And that was 12 years ago. Those people were still alive then! :eek: At least they’re all still voting. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221/24 "2014-12-04T14:56:55Z")
It wasn’t me - I was taking a bath at the time and I have three witnesses. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221/25 "2014-12-04T17:43:36Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > No, wait! They’ve were destroyed 12 years ago! > > [Case of 100 missing brains in Texas takes an odd twist](http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-missing-brains-found-in-texas-20141203-story.html) – L.A. Times, Dec. 3, 2014. Oh boy. I smell coverup (or maybe formalin) all over that story. It takes a lot of money to run the UT football program. And brains [have gone for big bucks on Ebay](http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/03/us/indianapolis-stolen-brains-ebay/). Connect the dots, sheeple. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221/26 "2014-12-04T17:50:01Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > It wasn’t me - I was taking a bath at the time and I have three witnesses. > > Regards, > Shodan Kinky! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221/27 "2014-12-04T18:02:14Z")
I don’t know if it is common knowledge or not but interestingly Charles Whitman requested in the note I believe he left with the bodies of his mother and wife that an autopsy be performed on him because he knew something was wrong with him and they discovered he had a tumor on his frontal lobe, some doctors I believe speculated that this may have been at least partially responsible for why he went on the shooting spree and that he could no longer control his impulses. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221/28 "2014-12-04T19:44:07Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > [Wait … Are you thinking what I’m thinking?](http://i.imgur.com/8Hcl5yf.jpg) Obviously not, because there was nothing in that link about taking over the world. narf… ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221/29 "2014-12-05T21:12:51Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > Brain? Brain? What is brain? You need to say that with more [passion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o7UDpn1mKI). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221/30 "2014-12-05T21:36:05Z")
I’m wondering now about that label on the cans of dog food that reads “other meat products.” ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221/31 "2014-12-05T21:39:44Z")
Update. Mystery solved. > **[Mystery of missing University of Texas brains solved](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/03/texas-missing-brains/19819601/)** > > One of the missing brains is believed to have belonged to mass-murderer Charles Whitman. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-taken-charles-whitmans-brain/706221.md?page=1)