SKELETAL remains of two infant children wrapped in newspaper from the 1930s have been discovered in a California apartment building.
The gruesome discovery was made when a building manager pried open a trunk inside the Los Angeles building, which was built sometime in the 1920s.
Police Lieutenant Wes Buhrmester said the two skeletons were found wrapped in copies of the Los Angeles Times dating from 1933 and 1935.
The trunk also contained several other items from the 1930s, including clothes, photographs, books, ornaments and ticket stubs from the 1932 Olympics, which were held in Los Angeles.
The remains were transferred to a medical facility in Los Angeles for analysis and the LAPD pledged a careful investigation into the mystery skeletons.
“We’ll put detectives on this case for the long term,” LAPD Chief Charlie Beck told the Los Angeles Times.
“We’ll try to reconstruct the circumstances based on what the coroner tells us, based on the history of the residence and based on science.
“We have many more tools and technology available to us than before, which may allow for identification of the victims and closure to any family members.”
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