Kentucky Woman Arrested After Police Find Human Remains and Body

Kentucky Woman Arrested After Police Find Human Remains and Body
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The Associated Press
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MOUNT OLIVET, Ky.—Authorities arrested a Kentucky woman after someone found a dismembered body in her mother’s backyard and officers later found human remains.

A man who was hired to work on the property in Mount Olivet, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Cincinnati, called authorities Wednesday after finding the body in the backyard, the Kentucky State Police said. Officers saw the dismembered corpse in the grass, according to an arrest citation.