“When they buried him, he had to remain in the body bag. Closed casket,” Basill Peyton said of his brother, Nathan. “People actually got sick from the odor that was emanating from the casket.'
coroner who is accused of having left the body of a dead man to decompose in a hot car overnight is facing a lawsuit, along with several other county officials. The Sept. 12 complaint, filed by Basill Peyton, the brother of deceased Nathan Peyton, claims Morgan County Coroner Raymond Vancleave negligently mishandled Nathan's corpse when he died on Dec.
30, 2022, according to multiple reports. In the court documents filed by Basill, he accuses Vancleave of "abuse of a corpse" and claims that the coroner left his brother's body in "a sealed black body bag" overnight in a vehicle on an “unseasonably warm day." Vancleave, who has since resigned as Morgan County coroner, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. The complaint also named former Judge-Executive John Stacy, and county fiscal court magistrates Brandon Evans, Carter Bolin, Donnie Keaton, Darrell Patrick and Leroy Phipps, claiming they should have been aware of the coroner's past negligent behavior., when Basill found Nathan dead, the body was in good condition. However, the complaint alleges that"instead of transporting the corpse of Nathan Dean Peyton to the State Medical Examiner's Office in Frankfort, Kentucky," coroner Vancleave kept possession of the body inside his SUV for almost an entire day.The former Morgan County Coroner in Kentucky is being sued for allowing a corpse to decompose in his SUV overnight.The lawsuit alleges Vancleave had previously had his access revoked to the morgue, freezer and cooling systems at local hospitals due to his alleged past failure to retrieve bodies in a timely fashion, which county officials were allegedly aware of. On Dec. 31, 2022, Vancleave allegedly transported Nathan's body to the state medical examiner’s office in Frankfort “for an
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