Infant Corpses Found Inside Another Michigan Funeral Home

OWOSSO, MI — More human remains have been found inside a Michigan funeral home, the third such instance in just the past two weeks. In the latest case, the remains of two small fetuses were found within a decades-old box within a former funeral home in Owosso, about 80 miles northwest of Detroit. The building had been vacant for two years and contractors found the remains while performing asbestos removal work.

The city wrote in a Facebook post Monday that the remains were inside a box in an abandoned second-floor apartment of the former funeral home, located near state Route 21 and South Shiawassee Street. Markings suggest the box is 50 years old.

The workers notified local police and a preliminary investigation by county medical examiner revealed both fetuses were about 20 weeks old. The identity of the fetuses remains unknown.

An investigation remains ongoing.

This is third such grisly discovery in Michigan in recent weeks. last week, a police raid uncovered 63 fetuses at Perry Funeral Home in Detroit. Most of them had been packed together in unrefrigerated boxes, according to The Washington Post.

And a week before that, the remains of nearly a dozen fetuses were found at the Cantrell Funeral Home in Detroit. The bodies were tucked away in a hidden compartment in a ceiling.

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