( Cincinnati ) A former worker at the Hamilton County Morgue who has admitted to raping the body of a murder victim in 1982, will spend the next three years in prison. 55-year-old Kenneth Douglas was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for gross abuse of a corpse and 18 months again for violating his parole on drug trafficking charges.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge William Mallory expressed disapointment that he couldn't give Douglas more time for a crime that he said was 'deeply troubling.' Douglas pleaded no contest on September 4th to the abuse charge, admitting that he raped the corpse of Karen Range in August of 1982. Range has been murdered by David Steffens earlier that day.

Semen found on the Range's body never matched Steffens and it remained a mystery as to who it belonged to until Douglas was arrested on drug charges and his DNA was put into a database, where it matched the sample taken from Range. Douglas worked at the morgue from 1972 to 1992 and says he may have abused as many as three to four other women, but says he can't remember specific names, ages or even races, due to his drug and alcohol problems.

Steffens is now appealing his murder conviction due to the Douglas case. A judge hasn't been named yet. Douglas plans to appeal his sentence as well.