Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli is now saying investigators are examining the possibility that Gregory Graf may have sexually abused the corpse of his stepdaughter Jessica Padgett after shooting and killing her.
During an interview with Nancy Grace Monday night, Morganelli indicated the sexual abuse may have occurred following Padgett's death.
"Based upon the nature of this crime, the body, the way it was discovered and some other information that I'm not at liberty to disclose just yet, we believe that there was a sexual motive behind this and that sexual motive is still being developed," Morganelli told Nancy Grace. "But it's either during, prior to the murder, during or a desire perhaps to have sex with a deceased body."
Padgett, a 33-year-old mother of three from Whitehall Township, was found dead in Allen Township Wednesday, nearly a week after she vanished while leaving work to send a fax at Graf's home office.
Authorities said the 53-year-old Graf admitted to killing Padgett and disposing her body on his property in Allen Township.
On the same day Padgett was found, Morganelli said that "there was clearly a sexual motive that involved a sexual assault or an attempted sexual assault on the victim."
Graf is charged with criminal homicide. He could face the death penalty if convicted.
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