History

No signs of trauma in mummified babies

A preliminary autopsy found nothing about the cause of death for those two infants whose remains were found wrapped in 1930s newspaper in a Westlake district basement. The coroner's office and LAPD will turn next to laboratory techniques and possibly DNA testing to determine if the babies are related and then, perhaps, to identify them.


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