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A Cornell University researcher was found dead in Taughannock Falls State Park from cuts to her throat, and her husband was hospitalized under guard after a car chase, state police said.
Troopers identified the woman as Caroline Coffey, 28, a post-doctoral researcher in biomedicine at Cornell. Hikers found the body Wednesday along a trail in the park, just outside Ithaca, where the Ivy League school is located.
Police had taken her husband, 24-year-old Blazej Kot -- a Cornell doctoral candidate in information services -- into custody Tuesday night after a park policemen spotted him covered in blood in his car in a closed parking lot. Police chased him five miles, until he crashed into a stand of trees.
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