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"Ohio man accused of having sex with a corpse says he didn't know woman was dead"

By Douglas A. Berman

The headline of this AP story not only is impossible for this blogger to resist, but also is certain to be fodder for late-night talk-show hosts.  Readers are, of course, welcome to come up with their own punchlines (and alternative sentencing proposals) given these basic facts: Police say an Ohio man accused of having sex with a corpse told investigators he didn't at first realize the woman was dead.  Fifty-five-year-old Richard Elwood Sanden of Geneva, Ohio, was being held on $500,000 bond Wednesday in the Daviess County Jail in Washington, Ind., on charges including abuse of a corpse and possession of marijuana. The Washington Times-Herald reports police arrested Sanden on Saturday night after they were called to the dead woman's apartment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 12, 2011 (boomark / email).