WI: Accused Grave Robbers Charged With Attempted Sex Assault On Corpse

WISC TV ^ | 9/6/06

[llevrok]

The three men arrested for allegedly digging up the grave of a woman who died last week in Grant County are also charged with attempted sexual assault.

The three men appeared in Grant County Circuit Court on Tuesday. According to a criminal complaint, the three men were charged with digging up the grave at the St. Charles Catholic Cemetery in Cassville with the intent to have sex with the victim's body, WISC-TV reported.

Alexander Grunke, his twin brother Nicholas Grunke and their friend Dustin Radke -- all 20 years old -- have been in a Grant County jail since Saturday.

The grave that the men are accused of trying to dig up belonged to Laura Tennessen, 20, of Cassville, who was buried last week after being killed in a motorcycle crash on Aug. 28.

The men were formally charged with attempted theft and attempted third degree sexual assault.

Radke allegedly confessed and said that the incident was an elaborate plan to have sex with the corpse. He told authorities that Nicholas Grunke asked him to help dig up Tennessen's grave and take the corpse back to a pre-selected location behind his house with the intent to have sex with her, WISC-TV reported.

Authorities said that Radke said that the three stopped at the Wal-Mart in Dodgeville on their way to the cemetery and bought condoms.

If the three men are convicted, they could face more than five years behind bars for both the misdemeanor theft and the attempted sexual assault, which is a felony, WISC-TV reported.

The bail for Radke was set at $1,500. For both Nicholas and Alexander Grumke, bail was set at $1,000.

[llevrok]

Therrrrrre's yer sign......

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

TN??

[Froufrou]

How desperate is that? Can't arouse a live one, so resorting to this? One word: Castration.

[llevrok]

wisconsin, sorry

[GarySpFc]

Evil!

[SerpentDove]

Very sick. While this highlights perversion at its lowest, it also shows how far the feminist movement has progressed. Even a corpse can be "sexually assaulted."

Next thing you know, it can be sexually harassed.

[llevrok]

Can't arouse a live one

Yeah, she wasn't British either....

[llevrok]

They were upset because she gave them the cold shoulder....

[dandelion]

What the **** is WRONG with these people? Is there no decency left in the world??

It makes me scared to even leave the remains of my loved ones alone - I already won't let my relatives be left alone at the hospital because of similar incidents with unconcious patients. (I actually had someone walk into my elderly mother's hospital room looking for her purse; they didn't see me lying beside the bed. HAH!) Now this...

Nobody better mess with my beloved dead - I'll put'em in a grave myself if they do.

[texan75010]

The grave that the men are accused of trying to dig up belonged to Laura Tennessen, 20, of Cassville, who was buried last week after being killed in a motorcycle crash on Aug. 27.

20 year old guys cant get a live girl?
The body of a woman who was killed in a motorcycle crash? Was she wearing a helmet? Was it open or closed casket?

This seems like some kind of gang initiation or cult right of passage. Just too bizarre.

Maybe the woman was an old girlfriend? Why buy a condom? Can a dead body give you an STD????

More questions than answers here. Bottom line, this is what prostitution is for.

[exile]

"Authorities said that Radke said that the three stopped at the Wal-Mart in Dodgeville on their way to the cemetery and bought condoms"

Condoms? At least they were being responsible.

[rockthecasbah]

That'd be like trying to have sex with Helen Thomas

[exile]

Now, now, these boys just wanted a cold one.

(I'm sorry I couldn't resist)

[exile]

Now THAT'S really sick.

[Dark Skies]

That's a little hasty, not having seen the pics. ;)

[freedomson]

[Froufrou]

Hasty??? You think the pics would show intent by usage of the little raincoat dudes???

[Palladin]

Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest.

[Dark Skies]

...intent by usage

Is that a legal term? What does it mean?

[fredhead]

Some appropriate Alice Cooper:

I love the dead before they're cold
Their bluing flesh for me to hold
Cadaver eyes upon me see nothing
I love the dead before they rise
No farewells, no goodbyes
I never knew your rotting face
While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave
I have other uses for you, darling
We love the dead
We love the dead, yeah

[Froufrou]

They don't look 20 to me, unless we're talking IQ.

[weegee]

Can you be charged with rape of an inanimate object?

[weegee]

Looks like Green Day or some other poser band to me...

[weegee]

What is it about Wisconsin and grave robbers?

[ansel12]

You can fine her obit on this page

http://www.mwnews.net/html/obituaries.html






Are we going to find out these are Goths, or other dark siders?

[weegee]

Even a corpse can be "sexually assaulted." Next thing you know, it can be sexually harassed.

Unless the man supports abortion legislation and then it's all good even if he tells an assaulted woman, "better put some ice on that".

[SerpentDove]

Very true. But for the rest of us, when a dead woman says no, that means no.

[freedomson]

[Protagoras]

It's unusual to see three people with the same mental illness. This kind of perversion is usually a solo act.

[little jeremiah]

They just should be killed, simple.

[weegee]

How about when scientists and historians exhume old bodies? And put them on display in museums for money?

I'm thinking that cremation is the only way to prevent tampering with a corpse.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

There are certain actions by which a person announces that they no longer wish to be a part of society.

We should honor their wishes.

[tomzz]

Such are the fruits of "secular humanism", evolutionism and the like; no meaningful basis for morality.

[b4its2late]

These kids are whacked.

[llevrok]

These kids are whacked.

You have to wonder what in the heck possessed them. But possessed may explain it.

[Dinsdale]

Can you imagine the reaction to the plan when the first perv suggested it.

Thinking back to 20 we did some crazy things. But if one of my friends had suggested this kind of thing...

How would that converstion go.

#1: 'What are we going to do tonight guys? I hear there's a kegger at Suzies house.'

#2: 'Suzie can suck a golfball through a garden hose. Lets go.'

#3: 'Naw. Lets dig up a nice fresh body and get us our grey wings'

#1 and #2: WTF? Do we know you?

[Sloth]

I'm hesitant to even post this, but here's the late young lady:

[DBrow]

Was that in reply to #28?

[b4its2late]

Yep. I think you're right. Unless they were on some kind of drugs.

[b4its2late]

Did they know her?

[Sloth]

Since they're all exactly the same age, I'm guessing they probably went to school together.

[Protagoras]

Either or.

[SerpentDove]

Remember when Slick Willy said, "I'd like to date that mummy."

?

True story.

[Sax]

These three chucklenuts were probably sick and tired of their old lovers:

[freedomson]

You're gonna love this!

Hear bubba get hot for a mummy

[SerpentDove]

LOL, that's the one!

[Palladin]

What a beautiful girl, and what a horrible tragedy for her family to go through her sudden death, and then through the desecration of her body.

Whatever the penalty for this crime, it can't be enough.

May the sweet-faced girl rest in peace, at last.

[RepoGirl]

I wish they all could be Cemetary Giiiirrrlllsss... PING

[girlscout]

I was sure that these three would be butt ugly. Hmmmm

[stm]

This goes well beyond despicable.