Pair accused of dumping body in Tuscarawas County plead guilty
NEW PHILADELPHIA – Two people accused of dumping a body in northern Tuscarawas County in 2023 have now pleaded guilty to gross abuse of a corpse.
This past 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 15.
Ashlie Morris (Tuscarawas County Sheriff)
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 19.