Two people accused of dumping a body in northern Tuscarawas County in 2023 have now pleaded guilty to gross abuse of a corpse.
This week 38-year-old Victor McCoy changed his plea to guilty to charges related to the discovery of skeletal remains found in Sandy Township in November of 2023. Sheriff’s officials said McCoy and a second person, 36-year-old Ashlie Morris of Massillon, took the body of 27-year-old Katie Ann Fuller from Morris’s home and dumped it in Tuscarawas County about eight weeks prior to its discovery.
Investigators could not determine a cause of death but suspected substance abuse. Morris in February changed her plea to guilty to one fifth-degree felony count of gross abuse of a corpse and is scheduled to be sentenced April 15th.
McCoy, who is in the Toledo Correction Institute on unrelated charges, on Monday pleaded guilty to the one felony count and a misdemeanor count of failure to report knowledge of a death. He will be sentenced May 19th .
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