LA police ID owner of trunk containing baby bodies
Photographer: Getty Images
Posted: 09/02/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles police have identified the owner of a trunk in which the mummified remains of a baby and a fetus were found.
Investigators said Thursday the trunk belonged to Janet M. Barrie, who immigrated to the U.S. from Scotland in the mid-1920s.
She was the home nurse for a Los Angeles dentist and died in 1992, leaving behind a trunk filled with her belongings and the bodies of two infants wrapped in newspapers.
The trunk was found Aug. 17 in the basement of an apartment building.
Authorities have not determined a cause of death of the babies, one of which was newborn and the other a fetus of about 20 weeks.
Investigators tracked down relatives of Barrie in Canada and are awaiting DNA tests.
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