University of Texas officials are trying to find about 100 brains preserved in formaldehyde that may include the gray matter of Charles Whitman, who went on a shooting spree from a tower at the school and killed 16 people.
The brains, mostly those of patients of a state mental hospital, were stored at the school’s Animal Resources Center in Austin, said Timothy Schallert, a professor of neuroscience and psychology. Officials have recently discovered that about half the collection of 200 brains can’t be located, said Schallert.
