Jay is standing alongside of the statue of a butcher who is holding a steak in his hand. This statue is on the route of many of the ghost tour operators who take tourists on nightly ventures through the Quarter. The statue is located in a group of buildings across from the French Market on Decatur Street. According to the story, the butcher, Hans Muller, fell in love with a younger woman. Muller killed his aging wife (who worked in his sausage factory) and ground her body up in the sausage grinding machine; she was sold as sausage to the public! Customers eventually complained about finding bits of the woman’s bones and jewelry in their food. Meanwhile, Muller lost his young love when she heard about the demise of his wife.  Muller became incessantly haunted by the bloody ghost of his wife, who eventually forced him into an asylum. Muller committed suicide while at the asylum, and reportedly the ghost of the sausage factory was never heard from again.

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