Man Who Worked At Morgue Says He Sexually Abused Up To 100 Cadavers
He had had sex with up to 100 dead women over a period of 16 years.
By Sadho Ram — 21 Aug 2014, 10:17 AM — Updated over 10 years ago
60-year-old Kenneth Douglas, who worked as a morgue attendant in Ohio, has admitted he had sex with at least 100 dead women
An Ohio morgue attendant admitted to having sex with at least 100 corpses while on the job, federal officials said in court Friday. Kenneth Douglas, a 60-year-old Hamilton, Ohio resident, said he had sex with the corpses between 1976 and 1992 while working the night shift, WCPO reported.
"I would just get on top of them and pull my pants down"
Kenneth Douglas said he may have had sex with as many as 100 corpses during his time as an employee for the Hamilton County morgue
Image via dailymail.co.ukIn his deposition as part of a lawsuit against Hamilton County, Douglas admitted to being drunk and on drugs while committing the crimes.
"If I hadn't had anything to drink when I went to work, it wouldn't happen," Douglas added. "I would do crack and go in and drink and go in."
nydailynews.comHe admitted to sexually abusing the cadavers of three women between 1991 and 1992, two of which were murder victims
Douglas was convicted of gross corpse abuse in 2008 after admitting to having sex with the corpse of a 19-year-old woman who had been murdered and nearly decapitated in 1991.
In 2012, Douglas admitted to having sex with two more corpses. In the case of another murder victim, Douglas said he had sex with her corpse the day she was killed. Now, Douglas has admitted to having sex with up to 100 corpses, many times while the bodies were being stored for autopsies.
The extent of his crimes have only come to light after it emerged that Hamilton County faces huge legal bills after the families of Douglas's victims were told they could sue by a federal appeals court
His crimes were first revealed when DNA connected him to semen found in one of his victims in 2008. The woman's killer, David Steffan, admitted killing the woman but denied raping her, according to the NY Daily News. The county is now being sued by the families of three of the victims, who said the morgue director failed "recklessly and wantonly" to supervise Douglas.
The county now faces a Federal lawsuit and huge legal bills after a panel cited evidence that Douglas’s supervisors knew he was getting drunk and having sex with corpses while on the job.
dailymail.co.ukThe victims families' case is supported by the wife of Douglas, who said she had tried to alert the morgue about her husband's actions, but was told to stop calling. According to the wife, Douglas "reeked of sex" when she picked him up from work.
Wife: Douglas' wife said in a deposition that when he comes home he 'reeks of sex'
Image via dailymail.co.ukDouglas' wife testified in a deposition that he reeked of sex when she picked him up from work. She said she called the coroner's office and reported him, but the morgue supervisor told her to stop calling. "He said, 'Whatever happens on county time and on county property is county business,'" said Douglas' wife.
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Meanwhile, the county argued that because the cases involved unknown criminal acts of an employee, it should not be held liable
'Hamilton County, like any other employer is not and should not be responsible for the criminal acts of an employee,' Greg Hartmann, President of the Hamilton County Commission, said in a statement to the system. 'The taxpayers should not have to pay money for the acts committed by criminals.'
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