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 LAKE KAPOWSIN, Wash. - Two men are under arrest after they allegedly assumed the identity of a dead woman whose body they found while burglarizing her home, sheriff's officials said Friday. 
 
 
 
 Ed Troyer of the Pierce County Sheriff's Office said the episode began when the two men snuck into a home in Lake Kapowsin. During the burglary, they found a woman's body in the yard near her truck. 
 
 
 
 "Instead of doing the right thing and making an anonymous call to 911 or leaving because there was a dead person there, they decided to take the body, bring it back to their place, wrap it in a tent and cover it with hay," Troyer said. 
 
 
 
 The men then went back into her home and began the process of cleaning her out. 
 
 
 
 "They took her antiques, her vehicles and put them in their name and sold them," Troyer said. "Then took her identity and her bank cards and tried to steal her money as well." 
 
 
 
 It was eagle-eye security officials at the Boeing Employees Credit Union that realized something was up when there was a spur of activity on the account of a woman who had been reported missing, Troyer said. That led police to the two men. 
 
 
 
 Police searched the men's home with cadaver dogs and they were able to locate the woman's body. An autopsy was conducted on the woman, which showed she probably died of natural causes. 
 
 
 
 "We were able to backtrack that these guys were actually burglars and thieves and not murderers," Troyer said. "But still, pretty creepy... the whole thing's totally bizarre." 
 
 
 
 The men, identified by court documents as James L. Conner and Curtis Jones, are now being held for investigation of multiple counts of theft and identity theft, Troyer said. 
 
 
 
 "They're going to be held accountable," Troyer said, adding prosecutors are still mulling additional charges. 
 
 
 
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– Two men accused of finding a Washington woman's body when they burglarized her home, then hiding the body and assuming her identity, have been arrested, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman says. "It's a bizarre story with a lot of moving pieces," Ed Troyer said yesterday. The two men, 57 and 46, were arrested on multiple counts of theft and identity theft, KOMO-TV of Seattle reported. They're expected in court on Monday. Investigators think the 63-year-old Graham woman died recently of natural causes while unloading horse feed from her truck, the News Tribune reported. Her horse was found dead on the property Wednesday, apparently of starvation and exposure. The two men are accused of going to the home to burglarize it sometime after the woman died, finding her body and removing it. "Instead of running away or making an anonymous phone call, they took the body away and wrapped it up and hid it on their property under a bale of hay," Troyer told the newspaper. The woman's co-workers reported her missing June 20. A few days later, one man is accused of using the woman's identity and credit cards. Her credit union alerted officials to the activity. Troyer said that information led officers to the two men. Officers searched the men's home with cadaver dogs and found the woman's body. Detectives think the burglary happened before the missing person report was filed, and that the house was a random target and the men were not involved in her death. "We were able to backtrack that these guys were actually burglars and thieves and not murderers," Troyer said. "But still, pretty creepy... the whole thing's totally bizarre."