WASHINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Police say an Ohio man accused of having sex with a corpse told investigators he didn't at first realize the woman was dead.
Fifty-five-year-old Richard Elwood Sanden of Geneva, Ohio, was being held on $500,000 bond Wednesday in the Daviess County Jail in Washington, Ind., on charges including abuse of a corpse and possession of marijuana.
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The newspaper reports Sanden told police he was having sex with the 48-year-old woman whom he had known for a few months when he realized she wasn't breathing. He told police he administered CPR and called an ambulance.
Marijuana. Finally noticed she wasn't breathing. Right.