TWO human foetuses found in a Los Angeles basement are being examined to try to unravel a mystery with possible links to the creator of Peter Pan.
The tiny bodies, wrapped in copies of The Los Angeles Times dating from 1932 and 1935, were found in leather doctors’ satchels inside a locked trunk.
It also contained postcards to “Jean M Barrie” and a membership card to the Peter Pan Woodland Club, a now defunct recreation centre in the mountains east of Los Angeles.
Peter Pan, the play, was written by the Scottish dramatist J M Barrie.
Records seen by The Los Angeles Times show that in 1933 a nurse named Jean Barrie lived about 5km from the art deco apartment building where the trunk was found.
There was no firm evidence yesterday of a family link between the trunk’s owner and the playwright but Charlie Beck, the Los Angeles police chief, said that he would “put detectives on this case for the long term”.
DNA analysis will be used to establish whether the babies were related, and toxicology tests to find out how they died.
Yiming Xing, a tenant in the building present at the discovery, said: “The first thing I thought (of) was the spirits. Maybe we disturbed the spirits.”
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