Autopsied Babies Puzzle Authorities In Philadelphia

The bodies of two newborn babies found in a Philadelphia alley over the weekend were medical specimens, the city’s Medical Examiner’s Office has said.

The boy and girl babies had autopsies and were preserved in formaldehyde before their bodies were left in a grassy area near a used car lot, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

A spokesman for the medical examiners office told the publication they were bodies that “one might find in an academic institution.”

Action News reports the corpses, which may have been stillborn, were donated for research and then were “improperly disposed of.”

However, the mystery lingers as to why the two bodies were left on the Philadelphia street.

No one has come forward to claim the bodies and further information on the babies’ identity has not been released by authorities.

The babies were found Sunday morning on N. Palethorp Street.

Two children who located the bodies Sunday morning told their parents about the gruesome discovery, and initially their parents thought they were dolls.