By Bhvishya Patel For Mailonline
Published: 17:54 BST, 5 May 2019 | Updated: 18:05 BST, 5 May 2019
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The final resting place of the Elephant Man has finally been discovered more than 130 years after his death, it has been claimed.
Author Jo Vigor-Mungovin discovered the unmarked grave of the man believed to be John Merrick after weeks of research and visits to the City of London Cemetery.
The biographer of 'Joseph: The Life, Times & Places of the Elephant Man' claimed that soft tissue belonging to Merrick was buried in the capital's cemetery after he died in 1890.
Author Jo Vigor-Mungovin has claimed to have to have found the final resting place of the Elephant Man more than 130 years after his death
Describing the sequence of events that led to her fascinating discovery, the author said that she had always held suspicions that the resting place of Merrick was probably in the same place as Jack the Ripper's victims.
She told the BBC: 'Then I went home and really thought about it and started looking at the records of the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium near Epping Forest, where two Ripper victims are buried.
'I decided to search in an
