Reminds me of Egil's Bones:
http://www.viking.ucla.edu/Scientific_American/Egils_Bones.htm
We meet again :-)
This reminds me of Dorothy Sayers' short story The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey.
Fascinating read, look it up...
A jealous MD married to a young woman with thyroid deficiency takes her to a foreign country and starves her of iodine to get revenge. Lord Peter Wimsey to the rescue!
(Also manages to work in quotes from Homer in the original Greek and a mention of Saint-Saens' Dance Macabre...)
Cheers!
I thought all the members of the Egils were still alive...
Hey, that article looks great. Nice and creepy too.