Wrong Body Dug Up in Kentucky Cemetery

[Champ]

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Authorities trying to exhume a body for DNA samples dug up the wrong grave in a Frankfort cemetery.


Steve Clark of the Frankfort Police Department said workers relied on photographs of Katherine Tatman's funeral in 2001 to find her unmarked grave in Greenhill Cemetery. They came within three feet but removed another casket with an unknown occupant on Monday.


"We don't have any way of knowing who it is," Clark said. "There were absolutely no markings at all."


Tatman, 68, was found stabbed to death in a Frankfort apartment in June 2001. No one has been arrested in the killing. Prosecutors want DNA evidence to prove Tatman was sexually assaulted.

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