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Former Minnesota funeral home director pleads guilty in 2002 case of skull found in Wisconsin

Benjamin Carl Hanson pleaded guilty to hiding the corpse of Alyce Catharina Peterson and agreed to three years probation and $23,830 in restitution, avoiding jail time.

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ST. PAUL — A former Stillwater-area funeral home director admitted in court Tuesday to the 2001 post-mortem decapitation of a woman whose skull was found a little over a year later by Boy Scouts hiking in western Wisconsin. Benjamin Carl Hanson, 57, of Bayport, where his wife serves as mayor, pleaded guilty in St. Croix County Circuit Court to a charge of hiding a corpse with the intent to conceal a crime. It was one of two felony charges prosec…

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Inforum broke the news in Fargo, United States on Thursday, March 26, 2026.
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