The Smoking Gun wrote:
SEPTEMBER 6--When Nicholas Grunke last week spotted a newspaper photo of Laura Tennessen, the Wisconsin man apparently became so smitten that he plotted a rendezvous with the 20-year-old woman. But the photo Grunke saw accompanied an August 29 obituary of Tennessen, who died in a motorcycle accident. Undeterred, Grunke allegedly plotted with his twin brother Alex and a friend, 20-year-old Dustin Radke, to rob Tennessen's grave so that he could have sex with her corpse. Details of the trio's degenerate scheme are contained in a criminal complaint filed yesterday in Grant County Circuit Court. A copy of the document can be found here. In a police interview, Radke said that he and the Grunke brothers stopped at a Wal-Mart to buy condoms on their way to the cemetery. The necrophilia plot was disrupted Saturday night when police received a report of a suspicious vehicle near St. Charles Cemetery in Cassville, where Tennessen is buried. When confronted by a cop, an "very nervous" Alex Grunke admitted to the grave robbing scheme, noting that his cohorts were then digging up Tennessen's coffin. When police arrived at the gravesite, Nicholas Grunke and Radke were gone, though cops noticed that a hole had been dug down to the concrete vault encasing the woman's coffin, according to the complaint. Nicholas Grunke and Radke were later arrested while walking about eight miles from the cemetery. The men are each facing sexual assault and theft charges that could land them in prison for more than five years.
Not that it's not bothersome enough that someone saw an obituary photo and said "I want to tap some of that" but, well, if my friend asked me to help him rob a grave so he could fuck the corpse, I'd be looking for new friends. But I'd probably at least send him in Barkingturtle's direction for some pointers.
The Smoking Gun didn't run a picture of the young woman in question but, showing the kind of determination my mother only wishes I had shown in high school, I managed to track down the newspaper in question and find a copy of the obituary in .PDF format. I trimmed it into a .gif for your examination.
I just noticed that this was yet another Wisconsin case. WTF is going on over there north of the state line?
Edited, Sep 8th 2006 at 6:33pm EDT by Jophiel