Gov. Beshear announces state medical examiner, crime lab confirm body found in Laurel County is Joseph Couch

In News, State by OC Monitor Staff

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Today, Gov. Andy Beshear announced that Kentucky’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. William Ralston and the state police crime lab have confirmed the unidentified body believed to be Joseph Couch has been positively identified through DNA extracted from bone.

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