In the aftermath of his passing 22 years ago, the late great baseball icon Ted Williams figuratively lost his head, and the whereabouts of his head continue to be a mystery despite the passage of time.
Although he passed away in 2002 at the age of 83, the slugger for the Boston Red Sox who was inducted into the Hall of Fame and is widely considered to be the greatest hitter of all time had his head frozen and was eventually removed, as per ESPN.
As a result of the terrible death of his daughter Claudia, who was 52 years old, which occurred a year ago and was just inexplicably reported on July 10th, new doubts have been raised regarding her father's missing body part for years. Claudia and Ted's only son, John Henry, had their father's dome removed from his body so that it might be cryonically preserved at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona. This caused the family of the perennial All-Star to be torn apart.
The strategy that they devised was to keep the head in storage until a future scientific breakthrough would make it possible to combine it with a healthy body, which would allow Ted to make a comeback that was extremely improbable to occur.
The notion, however, was met with opposition from their elder half-sister, Bobby-Jo Ferrell, who decided to take the matter to court in order to demand that Ted's head be returned to his body. She asserted that the Splendid Splinter had preferred for his ashes to be "sprinkled at sea," and she also accused her siblings of having the intention of selling her father's DNA to the person who offered the highest price.
On the other hand, John Henry passed dead in 2004 due to leukemia, while BobbyJo eventually won the struggle against the disease before passing away in 2010. When former Alcor executive Larry Johnson penned a scathing tell-all in 2009, he said that he had witnessed employees of the factory placing Ted's frozen skull in a tuna can and even batting it about like a baseball. This made the narrative even more grisly than it already was.
The charges made by Johnson were refuted by Alcor, which stated that it is a foundation that does not want to make a profit and is not in the business of selling the body parts of its customers. In addition, Eric Abel, Claudia's family attorney and a widower who is 61 years old, refutes Johnson's unsettling assertions concerning Claudia.
“We fought to keep that out of the public but were unsuccessful. I guess everyone reached their own conclusion, the lawyer stated, as per The National Enquirer.
Due to the fact that Claudia has passed away, all more information regarding the location of the famous ballplayer's bean has been successfully eliminated. Abel makes a solemn promise that the truth will be kept a secret inside the family.
“I say the same as we said with every loss in the Williams family. I’ve been the attorney for the Williams family for 30 years. Our only statement has ever been and will continue to be, ‘That’s a private family matter,’” attorney Eric furthered.
