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Taylor Odisho

Washington Coroner Admits He Wasn't Poisoned, Was Snorting Cocaine Stolen from Dead Bodies: Police

Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice in a 2022 reelection video. (Credit: YouTube)

A county coroner who claimed he was drugged at work admitted to stealing drugs off dead bodies "to know how it felt" after he was rushed to the hospital from his office.

Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice blamed a colleague for spiking his energy drink, shake powder and the water in an electric tea kettle with cocaine and fentanyl. According to the Yakima Herald-Republic, police learned he was lying after a lie detector test forced Curtice to admit to taking and using drugs from the corpses brought to his office.

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