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Former funeral home worker charged with hiding a corpse at the center of a cold case mystery
Benjamin Carl Hanson faces charges for hiding Alyce C. Peterson's skull and felony theft linked to unusual funeral home records and a $2,755.50 disputed charge, prosecutors say.
- On Wednesday, Dec. 17, Benjamin Carl Hanson, 57, of Bayport, Minnesota, was arrested in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, and charged with hiding a corpse and felony theft.
- On Oct. 20, 2002, Boy Scouts discovered a tied black garbage bag that revealed a skull in a ravine near the St. Croix River; officers searched the next day but found no other remains, and lab work suggested the skull had been transported.
- The DNA Doe Project then hit a possible close family match, which led investigators to identify the skull as Alyce C. Peterson, who died July 23, 2001, after Astrea Forensics' DNA testing long ago.
- Prosecutors are leaning on funeral-home records and a suspicious transaction as evidence, citing the $2,755.50 charge for 'hair' in Peterson's file and coworker accusations against Hanson, with potential penalties up to 25 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.
- At the initial court appearance on Dec. 18, a $5,000 cash bond was set with no contact allowed with Peterson's family, and a pretrial conference is scheduled for Feb. 26; the St. Croix County Sheriff's Office requested privacy as the case remains active.
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Former funeral home worker charged with hiding a corpse at the center of a cold case mystery
BAYPORT, Minn. — A former funeral home worker has been charged with hiding a corpse and theft, in the latest development of a case that began when a skull was discovered along a river in Minnesota in 2002. Benjamin Carl Hanson, 57, of Bayport, Minnesota, was arrested and charged in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, Dec. 17, with hiding a corpse and felony theft. Hanson's arrest was the latest development in a cold case mystery that date…
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