Police: 11 infant bodies found in ceiling of former funeral home
The badly decomposed bodies of 11 infants were found in the ceiling of a former funeral home on Detroit’s east side, Detroit police said.
The remains were found late Friday afternoon by state investigators just hours after they received an anonymous letter explaining how to find the bodies carefully hidden inside the false ceiling, Detroit police said.
The bodies had been hidden inside the former Cantrell Funeral Home at 10400 Mack Avenue at Garland, about 10 blocks east of the Indian Village neighborhood. The funeral home was closed by state authorities in April after they found numerous violations of state law.
After the infants’ bodies were uncovered, Michigan State Police used a cadaver-trained police dog to search the entire building, but no additional bodies were found, said Detroit police Lt. Brian Bowser.
They said still births, but that wouldn’t be a reason to hide the bodies in the ceiling.
How tragic. Can’t begin to imagine being the one to find those poor babies.