{"id":56707,"date":"2026-03-09T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=56707"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:42:36","slug":"p2-3-9-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/p2-3-9-2026-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky State Police Post 2 Investigating Abuse of a Corpse Case in Christian County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MADISONVILLE, Ky.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>(March 9, 2025)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 2 is investigating an incident involving the abuse of a corpse in Crofton, Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 5, 2026, at approximately 5:00 p.m. CT, Christian County Dispatch contacted KSP requesting assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A preliminary investigation indicates Jessica Hamby, 46, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, desecrated a family member\u2019s grave at a property on South Madisonville Street in Crofton, Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jessica Hamby was arrested and charged with Abuse of a Corpse and Violating Graves. She was later lodged in the Christian County Jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation is ongoing and is being led by Trooper Zane Baker U\/679 of the Kentucky State Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADISONVILLE, Ky.\u00a0(March 9, 2025)\u00a0\u2013 Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 2 is investigating an incident involving the abuse of a corpse in Crofton, Kentucky. On March 5, 2026, at approximately 5:00 p.m. CT, Christian County Dispatch contacted KSP requesting assistance. A preliminary investigation indicates Jessica Hamby, 46, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, desecrated a family member\u2019s grave at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,54],"tags":[532,77],"class_list":["post-56707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksp-news","category-post-2","tag-investigation","tag-post-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024-Article-Graphics-Investigation-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56708,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56707\/revisions\/56708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}