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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

Funeral director charged more than two decades after skull was found in a ravine near a boy scouts’ camp

Benjamin Hanson, 57, has been arrested in connection with a stolen skull found in a revine in 2002. - (St. Croix County Sheriff's Office/DNA Doe Project)

A Minnesota man who worked as a funeral director in the early 2000s has been charged in connection with a human skull that was discovered more than two decades ago in a ravine in Wisconsin near a Boy Scout camp.

Benjamin Carl Hanson, 57, of Bayport, was arrested Wednesday and charged with hiding a corpse and felony theft over $2,500.

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