Victoria Cosner has spent the better part of 35 years poking around graveyards and digging for lost pieces of history. She is especially fond of delving into missing pieces of women's history. She co-authored a book, Women under the Third Reich (Greenwood Publishing) and next turned her attention to the infamous Madame Lalaurie and her incredible family. It wasn't long before another bizarre historical figure caught her attention: Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell.

A longtime member of the Association for Gravestone Studies, she has worked in public history facilities for over 30 years and has her master's degree in American Studies, specializing in cultural landscapes of garden cemeteries.

Victoria Cosner has spent the better part of 35 years poking around graveyards and digging for lost pieces of history. She is especially fond of delving into missing pieces of women's history. She co-authored a book, Women under the Third Reich (Greenwood Publishing) and next turned her attention to the infamous Madame Lalaurie and her incredible family. It wasn't long before another bizarre historical figure caught her attention: Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell.

A longtime member of the Association for Gravestone Studies, she has worked in public history facilities for over 30 years and has her master's degree in American Studies, specializing in cultural landscapes of garden cemeteries.