Man Wanted To Have Sex With Woman's Body After Seeing Her Obituary

[matcom]

<snip>

Three men charged with attempting to rob a grave Saturday in Cassville were doing so because one of the men had seen the dead woman's obituary photo and wanted to have sex with her body, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Grant County Circuit Court.

The men had stopped at a Wal-Mart and bought condoms before heading to the cemetery, police said.

"One of the crimes we study in abnormal criminal behavior is necrophilia. I guess that would be the motive," Grant County Sheriff Keith Govier said Tuesday, adding that he had never before dealt with such a case.

Govier said the men apparently didn't know the dead woman.

"They just saw her obituary picture in the newspaper," he said.

Cassville Police Officer Brent McDonald was sent to St. Charles Cemetery in Cassville about 11 p.m. Saturday on a citizen's report of a suspicious vehicle.

McDonald found Alex Grunke, 20, of Ridgeway, dressed in black.

Grunke was "extremely nervous" and "sweating on a very cool night," McDonald said in an interview. Grunke told McDonald that two other men were in the cemetery digging up the grave of Laura Tennessen, 20, who died Aug. 27 after being thrown from the back of a motorcycle.

At Tennessen's grave, officers found a hole that uncovered the concrete vault that encases the coffin. The two men were gone.

Sunday morning, Nicholas Grunke, 20, of Ridgeway, and Dustin Radke, 20, of Dodgeville, were found walking along Highway 81 in Beetown, about eight miles from the cemetery. The Grunkes are twin brothers.

Each man was charged with being party to attempted third- degree sexual assault and being party to attempted misdemeanor theft. Bond was set at $1,000 each for the Grunke brothers and $1,500 for Radke.

According to the complaint, Radke told police that Nicholas Grunke asked him to help dig up the grave so that Grunke could take the corpse behind his house in Ridgeway and have sexual intercourse with the body. On the way to the cemetery, the men stopped at the Dodgeville Wal-Mart and bought condoms, Radke told police.


http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=97619&ntpid=1

[sofa king]

1. Eeeew!

Here's a tip for you necrophiliacs out there: a dead body is not a consenting adult. So go find a live Baptist girl instead.

:::runs away:::

[MissB]

36. .

:rofl:

[miss_american_pie]

2. OMG!

:puke:

[Puglover]

3. Um um well uh

wow. I just don't have words for this one. Geez.

[meegbear]

4. Well at least they were practicing safe sex

[NewWaveChick1981]

5. Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers...

:puke: Ewwww....

[Radio_Lady]

27. LOL. Reminds me of an even sicker slogan --

"Incest. The game the whole family can play..."

Yikes. What IS this world coming to? I'm getting ready for the next one -- if there IS a next one!

[Blue Diadem]

6. sick and creepy

:puke:

[wildhorses]

7. well...

... there's gonna be a freakers ball
Tonight at the freakers hall
And you know, you're invited one and all

Come on babies grease your lips
Grab your hats and swing your hips
Don't forget to bring your whips
We're going to the freakers ball

Blow your whistle and bang your gong
Roll up something to take along
It feels so good it must be wrong
We're freakin at the freakers ball

Where all the fags and the dykes they're boogyin' together
The leather freaks are dressed in all kinds of leather
The greatest of the sadists and the masochists too
Screaming "Please hit me, and I'll hit you"

The FBI are dancing with the junkies
All the straights, are swinging with the funkies
Across the floor and up the wall
We're freakin at the freakers ball
Yall, we're freakin at the freakers ball

Everybody's kissing each other
Brother with sister, son with mother
Smear my body up with butter
Take me to the freakers ball

Pass that roach please and pour the wine
I'll kiss yours if you'll kiss mine
I'm gonna boogie till i go blind
We're freakin at the freakers ball

White ones, black ones, yellow ones, red ones
Necrophiliacs looking for dead ones
The greatest of the sadist and the masochists too
Screaming "Please hit me, and I'll hit you"

Everybody's fallin' in batches
Pyromaniacs striking matches
I'm gonna itch me where it scratches
Freaking at the freakers ball

[reyd reid reed]

8. Ewwwwwwww

That's just....disturbing. And sick. And...

:scared:


If you'll excuse me, I'm feeling a bit ill...

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Wal-Mart - favored by necrophiliacs

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. What is it about Wisconsinites and having sex with dead people?

Sheesh. I know it's a long tradition, but Wisconsin seems to have the very easy majority of necrophiliacs throughout this country's history. Though usually, a *proper* Wisconsinite only has sex with someone that they've killed themselves, so these guys are just slackers.

(reminder: I am a Wisconsin boy by birth; but I don't like having sex with dead people - or I should say, I've never had sex with people so I don't know if I would like it, but I have no plans ever to find out)

[miss_american_pie]

11. Rabrrrrrr

"I've never had sex with people"

Sure you intended to discuss this so openly? :D

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. oops - meant to say "with DEAD people"

:blush:

[MissB]

37. Yeah, that "no sex with people" could be taken a whole lot of ways.

:rofl:

[regnaD kciN]

57. Paging Senator Santorum...

:evilgrin:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

60. Remember those other good ol' Wisconsin boys,

Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer? I was in 5th grade when they busted Ed Gein, and I still remember some of the ghoulish jokes that were circulating:

Q: What are Ed Gein's favorite cookies? A: Lady fingers.
Q: What did Ed Gein say when the police arrested him? A: Aw, Officer, have a heart!

I am also a native of Wisconsin.

[Rabrrrrrr]

65. What sign did Ed Gein have on his window?

"Womb for rent"

:rofl:

[Haole Girl]

12. YUCK!

Proving, once again, the truth is stranger than fiction. :crazy:

[MrCoffee]

13. There are some news stories that should slip through the cracks.

This would be a good example of one.

[Radio_Lady]

49. Some editor took a very jaundiced look at this story and ran with it.

Backstory is this family has lost both a son, age 19 -- ten years ago, -- and now a daughter, age 20 -- in traffic related accidents. This is simply too cruel to put this in a newspaper.

[LaurenG]

14. Hard up

or what. lol - that is just so wrong!

[u4ic]

16. Unfuckingbelievable

:puke:

[LSK]

17. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:wtf: :puke:

[ohiosmith]

18. For anyone interested:

[patcox2]

25. Is that the, umm, "victim?"

nt

[ohiosmith]

30. The intended victim.

[patcox2]

35. Died drunk speeding at 3 AM, no helmet, on the back of a motorcycle.

Sounds like she was into having fun, they shoulda looked her up when she was alive.

[Radio_Lady]

44. I feel sorry for her family -- having to endure this. Maybe this article

should have been filed under "not fit to print."

[idgiehkt]

58. goddamn.

I thought Steve Irwin was the new low.

This girl is dead.

[RetroLounge]

19. Just to be VERY VERY Clear...

I Live in Wisconsin, but I AM NOT FROM HERE!

(I am from Chicago)

RL

[Initech]

20. Beyond disturbing.

:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[never cry wolf]

21. Pic of the perverted perps

[SOteric]

22. "But your Honour...

I didn't know she was dead. -I thought she was English...." :shrug:

[smirkymonkey]

74. I feel guilty laughing, but that was pretty funny...

:rofl:

[Radio_Lady]

28. Where the F*** are their parents? These are three scummy boys

who should get grounded for the rest of their lives.

[Radio_Lady]

29. Sorry. I guess they are all 20 years old. What's the age of majority

in Wisconsin?

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. It depends on how alive you are.

:rofl:

[Solon]

23. Must have been one hell of an obit...

All I know is that when I die I can only hope my obit will inspire people to dig me up from my grave and stab me in the heart with a wooden stake just to make sure I'm dead!

[idgiehkt]

24. this is pretty amazing

her manner of death "being thrown from the back of a motorcycle" would suggest her body had quite a bit of damage done to it...surely they knew the picture was taken before her death...

I just can't figure out how all this information came out into the open...I guess these kids didn't have an attorney around telling them to shut the fuck up. They should have just said they were gonna rob the grave. Now it's all over the internet and will probably follow them around for a long time. Maybe it's for the best, some kind of intervention that they can get some help for now. I wonder if they've ever done this before.

[MissB]

38. I'm not thinking they were thinking about the damage to her body.

[Radio_Lady]

48. I think the editor of the paper should have shunted this story to

the Circular File 13.

It is a tabloid story if ever I saw one. I emailed the three writers to that effect.

"All the news THAT'S FIT TO PRINT" -- DOES ANYONE IN JOURNALISM EVER CONSIDER THAT AXIOM ANYMORE??

[idgiehkt]

53. good for you, radio lady

considering the fact that the charge was attempted sexual assault and wasn't carried out, you are right, this is very sensationalistic and it's sad because the perps are so young...it would be different if an actual crime had been committed.

[Taverner]

26. I'm sure they'll be facing some stiff penalties

[Rude Horner]

31. Oooooooh, rimshot.

That was bad. Just .....bad. :)

[Deja Q]

34. I doubt any of those three were into rimshots, sorry...

Only gay men do that, apparently... :crazy:

[Radio_Lady]

32. I just PMed this information to RevCheesehead, in case she's around

today.

This might be a good subject to explore in a sermon.

[Deja Q]

33. "Safe necrophilia" - those guys are sick!

And people call me a loser...

[Radio_Lady]

42. Agree with you there. Your photo is of Paul Lynde with his head on a

platter, right?

What's the significance of that?

See: http://www.tvparty.com/myslynde.html

[Deja Q]

46. Lynde's character in 'Bewitched' was a silly practical joker

Seemed fitting. For me.

Necrophilia had nothing to do with it.

[Radio_Lady]

51. Thanks for the explanation. I enjoyed Paul Lynde's work very much.

Sorry he met such a tragic end.

[texanwitch]

40. This reminds me of a creepy movie I saw about a young woman

who worked in a funeral home and had sex with dead good looking young men.

:scared:

[Radio_Lady]

43. "They don't yell, they don't smell (if well embalmed), they don't tell

and they're grateful as hell."

I guess that only works for old ladies, not dead ladies -- really!

[u4ic]

47. Was it "Kissed"?

[texanwitch]

50. I don't remember the name of the movie.

I did tape the movie but someone taped over it, never leave a tape in a VCR you want to keep.

The movie was extra creepy.

[Radio_Lady]

70. You could be right about "Kissed" -- here's the plotline and main link:

Plot Summary for Kissed (1996)

Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.

http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0116783/

I never saw this film.

It starred Molly Parker, who has a supporting role in the new movie "Hollywoodland," opening this Friday, September 8, 2006. Hubby says she was also in the last season of "Deadwood," but not sure she will be in upcoming episodes.

[texanwitch]

52. I checked the Internet and yes that is the name of the movie, thanks

for the title of the movie.
:hi:

[texanwitch]

55. I just bought the movie on DVD.

The movie is creepy but interesting.

[Radio_Lady]

71. I posted before realizing you had posted about four hours earlier.

"Hey, I'm a day late and a dollar short."

[WI_DEM]

41. I heard about this this morning and couldn't believe it

what a bunch of losers, mental cases and perverts.

[Radio_Lady]

45. The family has undergone tragedy before this:

Sheesh... talk about living under a black cloud... read this:

"This is not the first traffic-related tragedy for the Tennessens. Laura's brother, Tom, 19, died in a car crash outside of Platteville on a winter night 10 years ago."

Link is:

http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/wsj/2006/09/04/0609040048.php

[Generic Other]

54. Condoms? What for? To prevent a posthumous accident?

Oh my.

[Radio_Lady]

72. Exactly. I had the same reaction.

[JVS]

79. Or to keep embalming fluid off of certain delicate areas

[Deja Q]

83. Wouldn't that be a pro rather than a con?

:hide:

[JVS]

84. Not if it burns

[Deja Q]

85. Well, the guys thought they were hot enough to hang out with that chick...

:yoiks:

[JVS]

88. Is this really what we should be doing with our time? Debating...

the practical concerns of engaging in necrophilia.

[Deja Q]

81. Keeping bugs from going up the wrong places...

:scared:

[Fox Mulder]

56. Gross!

:wtf:

:puke:

[Fuzz]

59. Those are some GOOD friends! DAMN!

[hotforteacher]

61. Doesn't that just figure...

...folks out by Dodgeville are finally bored stiff of the House on the Rock and now they are moving to the slab.

Narf.

[smitty]

62. Goddmmit! It would have to be Wisconsin!

Home of Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahlmer. Why is it always this state?

[Elidor]

63. On a positive note...

It's extremely unlikely that any of the three will ever be afforded a chance to reproduce.

[Rabrrrrrr]

66. Oh, I don't know - women can be pretty fuckin' dumb.

Look at all the women who wanted to marry Ted Bundy and other serial killers, AND have conjugal visits.

[Callalily]

64. Is this another

bash Wisconsin thread? :sarcasm:

I swear to gawd, it must be something in the water. Good thing I only drink filtered water.

[smitty]

68. Maybe it's something in the bratwurst. We do produce an

unusual number of necrophiliacs and cannibals. Ever since that book "Wisconsin Death Trip" came out it's been downhill.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

67. Not in Florida? huh.

[Crabby Appleton]

69. good plan, poor execution n/t

[ChoralScholar]

73. Oooh. Wisconsin.

I thought it was here! Ridgeway, AR and Cassville, MO are both within 30 mins of here.

[Irreverend IX]

75. Maybe they listened to too much Michael Savage.

[Crabby Appleton]

76. Sometimes it's hard to dig up a date.

[JVS]

77. I think they should plead insanity because that planned crime is INSANE!

[JVS]

78. PSA: Don't drive drunk on motorcycles or creepy Wisconsonites will...

plan on molesting your corpse

[Deja Q]

80. I thought people would have let this thread die...

And it's way too easy for me to make a crass remark at this point, so I won't... :blush:

[JVS]

82. Can you PM me your crass remark?

[Deja Q]

86. Oh piffle. Better to say it here anyway...

It was about bringing up the dead...

[JVS]

87. Ress-erection? to make a pun