The Latest Breaking News from Alyce Catharina Peterson

For two decades, Minnesota police struggled to identify a lone skull, now they’ve tied it to a funeral director who ‘went off the deep end’

The DNA Doe Project was instrumental in breaking this case.

We Got This Covered · Jun 8

Ex-Funeral Director Accused of Decapitating Woman After Skull Found in Woods 23 Years Later

Benjamin Hanson was charged after a skull found by Boy Scouts was identified as a woman he had prepared for cremation in 2001.

International Business Times UK · Dec 22, 2025

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

The skull belonged to Alyce Catharina Peterson, who died at the age of 92 in July 2001

The Independent UK · Dec 18, 2025