Authorities investigating how the skull of a woman supposedly cremated in Maplewood ended up in St. Croix County

Law enforcement is investigating how the skull of a woman who died and was cremated in Maplewood in 2001 was found in 2002.

According to a search warrant filed on Monday, Alice Peterson, 92, suffered a medical emergency and died at Regions Hospital in July 2001.

But in October 2002, a human skull was found in Houlton, WI, in a plastic bag. The skull remained a Jane Doe case until the DNA Doe Project identified it as belonging to Peterson…

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