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Committee backs bill to raise penalty for tampering with human remains tied to homicide investigations
Summary
House Bill 44 would increase penalties for tampering with or fabricating physical evidence in connection with a homicide when the act prevents a coroner or medical examiner from determining cause or manner of death.
Representative Denise Baum opened the hearing on House Bill 44, describing cases in which suspects took extraordinary steps to conceal or destroy bodies, preventing coroners from determining cause or manner of death and, in some cases, blocking deliberate-homicide charges.
Baum recounted an investigation in which body parts were discovered burned in a coulee and detectives found a victim had been beaten, then later dismembered and burned, leaving examiners unable to determine the exact cause of death. "Due to those extraordinary measures taken to conceal, destroy the victim's body,…
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