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Wisconsin Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Necrophilia Case

By Rachel Plotnick

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling in coming weeks that will determine whether necrophilia is a crime that falls under the state?s sexual assault statute. The debate stems from a Sept. 2006 criminal case, involving three young men who tried to dig up a woman's grave to have sex with her corpse. On Aug. 27, 2006, 20-year-old Laura Tennessen was riding on the back of a 2001 Honda motorcycle driven by Thomas C. Sweet, also 20. The couple had allegedly been drinking and at about 3:00 a.m., Thomas lost control of the motorcycle, and they were both thrown onto the roadway. Thomas sustained minor injuries, but Laura was pronounced dead upon arrival at Grant Regional Health Center in Lancaster, Wisconsin. When Laura's obituary, along with a flattering photograph, was published in local papers, brothers Nicholas and Alexander Grunke, both 20, concocted a bizarre scheme to dig up her body so Nicholas could have sex with her corpse...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).