Wisconsin coroner stole body part to train dog, police say

[Little Tich]

Source: Chicago Tribune News / Reuters

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - The medical examiner for Oneida County in northern Wisconsin was released on a $5,000 signature bond on Thursday after she was arrested for allegedly stealing a human body part obtained from an autopsy to train her dog.

Traci England, 44, of Rhinelander, faces charges of misconduct in public office and theft, according to a news release from the Oneida County Sheriff's office.

England told investigators she kept part of a person's spine from an autopsy she performed on Tuesday so that she could train one of her dogs to search for human remains.

She was arrested on Wednesday after an investigation by the Forest and Oneida County sheriff's departments.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-crime-wisconsin-dogtre8042a2-20120105,0,1322163.story

[Ecumenist]

1. OMG...WTF??!! Who does that...No respect AT ALL

for the human body. Really?

[MADem]

2. WTF? I'm sure the Body Farm would have accommodated any request of that nature.

People give their bodies to science for forensic and other uses. She could have done this legally.

Why did she have to do such a horrible thing? Some people are just sick. Or stupid. Or both.

[Enrique]

3. a lot of corpse stories seem to come out of Wisconsin

I love Wisconsin, but that's what it seems like.

[Myrina]

4. Really? Links please?

I recall hearing a few odd ones growing up there, but no more than come from elsewhere ....

[Marrah_G]

5. wtf........

[mainer]

6. It's really unnecessary. Discarded body fluids would have worked, too.

I've seen a canine trainer use a jar with a corpse's body fluids to train a cadaver dog.

I don't think this is worthy of arrest, though. It seems more like a lapse of judgment.

[uncle ray]

7. don't they just throw away organs and stuff during an autopsy or enbalming?

of course in a sanitary receptacle.

not being the spiritual type, my outrage meter barely budged. it's not like she brought a limb home for a chew toy.