On their way to dig up a grave in rural southwestern Wisconsin, the Grunke brothers and a friend stopped at a Wal-Mart to pick up some condoms, authorities said.
Three days later, on Tuesday, twins Nicholas and Alexander Grunke, 20, and Dustin Radke, 20, were charged in Grant County with attempted theft and attempting to have sex with a corpse.
"In different schools that teach you about bizarre behavior, necrophilia is one of those things that you hear about, but never think you'll have to deal with," said Grant County Sheriff Keith Grovier.
A Cassville police officer arrived at the St. Charles Cemetery on Saturday night after a neighbor alerted police to suspicious activity, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday. The officer found an abandoned vehicle parked near the cemetery. Minutes later, the complaint stated, the officer saw Alexander Grunke walking toward the vehicle, dressed in black and sweating profusely. After being questioned, Grunke told the officer his brother and Radke were trying to dig up a grave, according to the complaint.
The two drove into the cemetery to find the partially dug grave of a 20-year-old woman who was killed in a motorcycle accident Aug. 27 in Cassville. The diggers had only managed to reach the top of the grave's concrete vault. Nicholas Grunke and Radke were arrested Sunday morning in Beetown, about eight miles from the cemetery.
The complaint said Radke told police that Nicholas Grunke had asked him to help dig up the Cassville woman's body and take it to Grunke's house, so that Grunke could have sex with it. On the way to the cemetery, Radke said, they stopped by a Dodgeville Wal-Mart to buy condoms "because Nick wanted to use them when he had sex with a corpse," the complaint added. YJCMTSU
The Grunkes are from Ridgeway, while Radke is from Dodgeville, both in Wisconsin's Iowa County, about 50 miles northeast of Cassville. Grovier said the three did not know the woman but had seen her picture in a newspaper obituary.
Grovier said the woman was "very well-liked, very popular" in Cassville, a Mississippi River town of about 1,100. "The community is very upset," the sheriff said. "They can't believe it."
"The family, they're people of faith, but this is still a difficult time for them," the Rev. John Norder, pastor of St. Charles Church in Cassville, told the Associated Press on Monday. "We're all pretty shook up that something like this could even happen. It blows your mind how anyone could stoop so low."
Radke and the Grunkes were being held Tuesday night in the Grant County jail. The Grunke brothers were assigned a $1,000 bond, while Radke had a $1,500 bond for previous misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest, Grovier said. Each could face nearly 5œ years in prison and a $17,500 fine.
A Thai woman who had her ex-husband killed and then tried to dispose of his body by chopping it up and burning it on a barbecue was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment.
Pannada Raolueang, 35, was convicted of the murder of Toby Charnaud, 41, from Chippenham, Wiltshire, by a judge at Petchaburi provincial court. She was sentenced to death, which was commuted to life in prison. Three men - two relatives and a neighbour - were also given the same sentence.
Pannada must be real convincing.
Judge Sarayuth Susayanawin said Pannada was guilty of killing her ex-husband by "hiring other people to commit murder". Witnesses told the court how Pannada invited Mr Charnaud to her home in Petchaburi, 65 miles south-west of Bangkok, in April 2005 to collect their four-year-old son, Daniel. When he arrived, the men, Bunthiam Phuiphong, 31, Chatri Sriprathum, 28, and Niphit Satabut, 27, tried to shoot him, but the homemade gun misfired.
Next time get a genuine shutter gun.
They then beat him to death with an iron bar before chopping up his body and trying to burn it on a barbecue.
They should have asked me, I can burn anything on a grill.
The charred remains were buried in a prepared hole in a nearby national park.
Pannada initially reported Mr Charnaud missing, but his family hired a private investigator to find him. After mobile phone records showed the owner of two bars had been in his former wife's house on the day he vanished, police raided the property.
A scene from "Matlock" ensued.
Two of the defendants confessed to the crime and led police to where they had buried the remains. The four escaped the death penalty because they had cooperated with the court, the judge said.
After the verdict Pannada said she wanted to see her son, who now lives with his father's family in England.
I think that qualifies as chutzpah.
Mr Charnaud met Pannada in Bangkok at a sex bar and they married in 1997. He took her back to live with his parents in Wiltshire until he sold his farm to return to Thailand, where he bought his bars.
Copper-bottomed investments, those were ...
They divorced in 2004 after he learned of her affair with a Thai police officer and her gambling debts.
I rather suspect Toby wasn't thinking with his brain when he proposed.
Mr Charnaud kept custody of Daniel but the boy regularly visited his mother.
Pannada said she arranged the murder after she heard Mr Charnaud had started a relationship with another Thai woman.
Toby wasn't an especially quick learner.
"She feared her son would face hardship and therefore wanted to kill her husband," according to testimony read out in court. But a lawyer for the Charnaud family said yesterday he believed money was the main motive. She wanted to "inherit everything through their son", Bunchu Yensabai said.
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CHESHIRE, Ore. -- A Cheshire woman has been accused of shooting her husband after he shot her pet chicken.
"You bastard! You shot Squawky!"
The Eugene-Register Guard reports that 58-year-old Mary Kay Gray has been jailed on felony assault charges.
"I dunnit an' I'm glad!"
Her 43-year-old husband, Stanley Gray, is recovering from a gunshot wound to the shoulder.
"She shot me! The bitch shot me!"
I've had pet chickens and they were all fine birds. I agree with this lady - anyone messes with my hens, they mess with me!
The chicken died at the scene.
Alas, poor Squawky! We knew him well!
Lane County sheriff's Sgt. Clint Riley says the couple had been working around their yard and drinking on Labor Day.
Drinking? No!How could that be?
They got into an argument after Stanley Gray shot his wife's pet chicken with a .44-caliber handgun. Police don't know if the shooting was intentional or an accident. Riley says "it depends on who you ask."
"Awright! Didja shoot the chicken on purpose, Stanley? Or was it an accident?"
"It wuz murder, officer!"
"Shuddup, Mary Kay! It wuz self-defense! That chicken pulled a knife on me!"
But sheriff's deputies later determined that Mary Kay Gray shot her husband with a .22-caliber rifle in an apparent act of retaliation.
"It wudn't retaliation! It wuz self-defense!"
"I ain't got no knife! Search me!"
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Too much Rooster/Chicken love, or too little???
The Wa Naa, Alhaji Yakubu Seidu Soale II, the Paramount Chief of the Wala Traditional Area, died early Monday morning and was buried at the wala royal mausoleum after Muslim and traditional burial rites. According to palace sources, the late chief, aged 81, went back to his bedroom after saying the early morning prayers on Monday morning but was found dead about one-and-a-half hours later. Although he was enskinned paramount chief in 2001, he was eventually out doored in 2005 as a result of litigation. The Supreme Court eventually upheld an earlier judgment in his favour by the regional house of chiefs.
He left behind six wives, 36 children and 18 grand children. In his private life, the late chief was a farmer and a businessman. The Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Ambrose Dery, consoled the bereaved family and presented four maxi bags of maize and four mini bags of rice on behalf of Regional Coordinating Council while the Wa Municipal Assembly presented two maxi bags of maize and two mini bags of rice and a sheep to the bereaved family.
WASHINGTON Speaking to a group of national reporters Wednesday, Ned Lamont steered away from the hard anti-Iraq-war line he drew in defeating Sen. Joe Lieberman in August's state Democratic primary.
Lamont on Wednesday rejected calls to impeach or censure President Bush for leading the nation into war in Iraq. He also said that as a senator, he would not support efforts to withhold defense funding as a means of ending the war.
"I don't see anything that would be an impeachable offense," Lamont told reporters gathered for an hourlong breakfast.
Oh, boy; are Kossack and DUmmie heads starting to explode yet? LOL!!!
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Lamont moving to the center = "I'm to the right of Trotsky!"
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As to Lamont rejecting him as defense secretary, Lieberman chuckled that he had "many reasons" to be confident that Lamont would never have to face that decision.
ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny Perdue on Wednesday said that with the federal government failing to act on illegal immigration, the state will begin its own crackdown on document fraud. Perdue said 10 new investigators will be placed at those drivers services centers in Georgia believed to be at the highest risk for receiving forged documents. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation will also hire three new investigators to assist with follow-up investigations. Surrounded by state and federal law enforcement officials, Perdue called fraudulent IDs "a serious threat to homeland security."
He complained that Congress has failed to act on illegal immigration. "It looks like we're going to be forced to fight this battle at the front with limited resources and limited jurisdiction," Perdue said.
Immigration has become a central theme in Perdue's bid for re-election this fall. The state Republican Party recently ran a television ad praising him for leadership on the issue. Earlier this year Perdue signed into law a sweeping immigration bill that is set to take effect next year. He also recently visited Georgia National Guard troops who have been stationed at the Southern Border with Mexico.
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This is how change occurs in the US -- at the state and local level, not by waiting for the federal government to get around to it.
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Unfortunately, with the ACLU friendly judiciary this will cost the state lots of money in court appeals. Time to bring back the requirement for the loser to pay the victor court costs. I know some 'little' people will be hurt, but far more of everyone else is being hurt [robbed, raped, and murdered] because of these endless appeals seeking sympathetic judges to override the fundamental compact between the people and government.
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Immigration has become a central theme in Perdue's bid for re-election this fall.
And it will become the "central theme" of any other politician who is serious about winning. Go for it Gov'ner. Escort em all to the Forida border and let brother Jeb worry about em.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
CHESHIRE, Ore. -- A Cheshire woman has been accused of shooting her husband after he shot her pet chicken. 
ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny Perdue on Wednesday said that with the federal government failing to act on illegal immigration, the state will begin its own crackdown on document fraud. Perdue said 10 new investigators will be placed at those drivers services centers in Georgia believed to be at the highest risk for receiving forged documents. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation will also hire three new investigators to assist with follow-up investigations. Surrounded by state and federal law enforcement officials, Perdue called fraudulent IDs "a serious threat to homeland security."
