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Skull Trophies Uncovered—County Skates

A federal court just confirmed that an Illinois coroner secretly kept family members’ skulls as “trophies” for decades — and then said the county cannot be held liable. Story Snapshot A Seventh Circuit court opinion says former Boone County coroner Wesley Hyland kept several skulls as trophies, including teen Louise Betts’s. Louise’s brothers only learned in 2022 that her skull had been held back for more than 40 years and had to exhume her gra…
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freshoffthepress.org broke the news on Friday, June 19, 2026.
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