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Construction worker Kenneth Borger, 25, survived unharmed after crashing his truck into a tree in upstate New York in May, but his passenger was killed. According to investigators, Borger told them that rather than call the police he decided to wrap her body in tarps and drive it back to his home in Hamilton, New Jersey. The next day he stole a backhoe from a former employer’s lot, loaded the body into its front shovel, and drove five miles in broad daylight to a field just off I-195 (and not far from a state police barracks), where he dug a 13-foot-deep ditch and buried the body in it. Said Mercer County (New Jersey) prosecutor Joseph Bocchini Jr., “I couldn’t make this stuff up.”
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Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
