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Convicted Necrophiliac Charged in Two Additional Cases

By David Lohr

In August 2008, I brought you the story of a former morgue employee from Hamilton County, Ohio, who was arrested on charges stemming from an incident that occurred over two decades ago, when he had sex with a corpse. There have been several new developments in the case since that time, including a conviction and the filing of two more counts of gross abuse of a corpse. The pieces of this bizarre puzzle began to fall into place last year, when DNA evidence exonerated convicted killer David Steffen, 49, of raping 18-year-old Karen Range, a young woman whose dead body was found nearly beheaded in August 1982. Steffen had admitted to murdering Range, but always denied the rape allegations. Nonetheless, a jury of his peers found him guilty of both charges, and he was sentenced to death...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).