Sharonville police said an Akron woman kept the body of her boyfriend in a motel for four days after he died of an apparent heroin overdose.
Police arrested and charged Kathryn Carmen, 34, with abuse of a corpse on Thursday after actions that would "outrage reasonable community sensibilities."
According to police reports and court documents, Carmen and her boyfriend, Jacob Tackett, were staying in a room at the Crosslands Motel in Sharonville. Police said on June 10, Carmen and Tackett used heroin together.
After using the heroin, Tackett overdosed and Carmen passed out on the bed, documents said, and when she woke up Tackett wasn't breathing and appeared to be dead.
"She said that she moved him to the floor and tried to do CPR but eventually passed out again," the affidavit said.
According to an affidavit, the next day Carmen covered the body with a sheet and over the course of the next few days she mostly stayed in the room and used the rest of the heroin.
"She said that she left the room on occasion to sleep in the woods nearby," documents said. She also left the hotel to stay with a friend and buy more heroin, according to police.
On Thursday, police were called to the hotel for a welfare check after motel staff called and reported a "foul odor" that could be smelled from the parking lot, court documents said.
Police said there was a foul odor coming from the room that officers associated with the smell of a decomposing body. When police talked to Carmen, she told them everything was OK, court documents said.
"A short time later, a motel employee went into her room based on the foul odor and when contact was made with Carmen, she was seen throwing clothes onto something on the floor," documents said.
The motel employee then touched the pile of clothes and felt something. Suspecting that it was a body, the employee called the police. When police returned, she admitted that Tackett's body was under the clothes and told police what happened.
Carmen is being held on a $100,000 bond at the Hamilton County Jail.
