Why did Carl in Corpse Bride kill the bride?

Carl fitted Elena with artificial eyes.

1930 On April 22nd, Karl and others came to his "true love". Maria Elena milagro de hoyos (later called Elena) went to the hospital for examination accompanied by her mother. Carl fell in love with her at first sight and decided that she was the exotic woman with dark hair in her dream.

After a year and a half of treatment, after Elena died of tuberculosis in 193 1, Carl made a special grave for her body and waited beside her all day. Carl firmly believes that Elena is the beautiful true love in his fantasy. Finally, Carl couldn't resist his inner desire, dug Elena out, connected the bones with thread, put on an artificial eye, and wrapped the skin with a tarpaulin. In this way, Carl lived with his Corpse Bride until he was discovered.

Introduction to Carl

Carl is a German immigrant, born in Germany, and has been to Australia from India. During the First World War, his life was a vagrant. After the war, he returned to Germany to get married and have children, and then Carl's family immigrated to Zephyrhills, Florida, USA, to live with Carl's sister.

Just one year later, Carl got a job in key west Island as a radiologist in Ocean Hospital. In the United States, he claimed to be a German aristocrat in the name of Karl Tanzanle von Meidigao, and obtained nine different degrees. Carl, who immigrated to the United States, lived a stable and low-key life in front of radiologists.