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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.”

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