In unguarded, taped interviews with his defense attorney, Wendy Patrickus, Jeffrey Dahmer explicitly stated that he had sex with his victims before and after their deaths. He explained that he wanted to remain with the person as long as possible, preserving some of his victims selected organs, skeletal tissue and bones. Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) was an American serial killer who raped and murdered at least 30 young women during the 1970s. He also confessed to participating in necrophilic acts, claiming to have chosen secluded disposal sites for his victims bodies specifically for post-mortem sexual intercourse. Karen Greenlee
In 1987, Karen Greenlee gave a detailed interview called “The Unrepentant Necrophile” for Jim Mortons (edited by Adam Parafrey) book Apocalypse Culture. In this interview, she stated that she had a preference for younger men and was attracted to the smell of blood and death. She considered necrophilia an addiction. The interview was held in her apartment, which was apparently a small studio filled with books, necrophilic drawings, and satanic adornments. She also had written a confession letter in which she claimed to have abused 20–40 male corpses. Dennis Nilsen
Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) was a Scottish serial killer who had developed an association between death and intimacy, later finding posing as a corpse a source of sexual arousal. In 1978, Nilsen committed his first murder and had intercourse with the victims corpse, keeping the body for months before disposal. Nilsen was reported to have sexually abused the corpses of various victims until his arrest.
Multiple states have their own laws:

See also
Incidents of necrophilia
Necrophilia in popular culture
Vulnerability and care theory of love
Death during consensual sex
Somnophilia
Paraphilias

Footnotes
Sources
Aggrawal, Anil (2010). Necrophilia: Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1420089127. Aggrawal, Anil (19 April 2016). Necrophilia: Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-8913-4. Finbow, Steve (2014). Grave Desire: A Cultural History of Necrophilia. Winchester, UK: Zero Books. ISBN 978-1-7827-9342-7. Lee Mellor (2016) Homicide: A Forensic Psychology Casebook. CRC Press. ISBN 9781498731522. Purcell, Catherine; Arrigo, Bruce A. (7 June 2006). The Psychology of Lust Murder: Paraphilia, Sexual Killing, and Serial Homicide. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-046257-8. West, Sarah G.; Resnick, Phillip J. (2017). "Necrophilia". Unusual and Rare Psychological Disorders: A Handbook for Clinical Practice and Research. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-024586-3. Further reading
Lisa Downing, Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature. Oxford: Legenda, 2003
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis. New York: Stein & Day, 1965. Originally published in 1886. In literature
Gabrielle Wittkop, The Necrophiliac, 1972
Barbara Gowdy, We So Seldom Look on Love, 1992
Frank OHara, Ode on Necrophilia, 1960


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