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Death Penalty Case Reveals Morgue Worker Had Sex with 100 Female Corpses
Loaded on Sept. 2, 2016
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2016, page 46
In another development in the macabre murder, rape and death penalty case of convicted killer David Steffen, a former Hamilton County, Ohio morgue worker admitted to engaging in sex with around 100 female corpses.
Kenneth Douglas acknowledged in a deposition that he had sex with the bodies – among them, ...
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