‘Very, very unnatural’: Expert reacts to Phoenix morgue break-in

The Brief

  • Thirty-one-year-old Fenris Lu is accused of breaking into the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office on Wednesday around 2 a.m. and sexually assaulting multiple bodies inside.
  • Law enforcement sources state 11 body bags were broken open, and the sexual assault of four deceased men was caught on camera.
  • Maricopa County officials and forensic experts confirmed that while the incident raised contamination concerns, no medicolegal death investigations were compromised.

PHOENIX It is an act many are still wrapping their heads around.

“It tends to throw people quite a bit because it just seems so very, very unnatural,” said Dr. Rebecca Hsu, a forensic pathologist at Hsu Enterprises.

Thirty-one-year-old Fenris Lu is accused of breaking into the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, May 20, and sexually assaulting multiple bodies inside.

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