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Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
OMG....I would be 
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - A woman cleaning out her dead parents' rented storage unit discovered a partially mummified baby boy, wrapped in a 1957 newspaper and stuffed inside a suitcase-within-a-suitcase.
The body will be sent to a forensic anthropologist to determine the cause of death, authorities said.
According to investigators, the child was wrapped in a newspaper called the Daily Times dated Jan. 9, 1957. They believe the paper was from New Jersey or New York.
It could not be determined last night if the Daily Times in question was one of several Gannett-owned newspapers that merged in 1998 under The Journal News. The Daily Times covered the Sound shore community of Mamaroneck. Delray Beach police last night could not provide details about the newspaper in which the boy was wrapped.
The daughter who found the body Monday night "was a little rattled at first" and wondered to herself, "Could this be a sibling?" said spokesman Officer Jeff Messer.
"It's obviously a concern of hers," Messer said. "Based on the condition of this baby, it could really be 50 years old."
The storage unit had been rented by the couple in 1996. The man died several years ago and the woman, who was in her 70s, died last year, Messer said.
The couple's daughter had flown down from New Jersey after receiving a letter warning that the contents of the storage unit would be auctioned off because the rent had not been paid for several months, Messer said.
"As they were cleaning it out, she came upon a big suitcase, opened that suitcase, found another smaller suitcase, opened it and found a baby wrapped in a newspaper," he said.
Messer called the discovery "spooky."
Authorities would not release the names of the couple or the daughter.
Messer would not say whether DNA was extracted from the baby to be compared to the daughter.
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
I heard about this last night on the radio chick- it would make total sense that it would be her sibling
how creepy
my brother and grandma live in Delray beach-
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
OMG this is soooo creepy. If it is not a sibling, then who is it?
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
very creepy
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
But wait...the couple started renting the storage unit in 1996. That would mean that they moved the mummified baby from where it had been for the 40 some-what years prior to that into the storage facility. That is soooooo weird!!! Well, the whole story is, but the fact that they actually moved it after forty something years is even more weird!
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
Posted by joenick
But wait...the couple started renting the storage unit in 1996. That would mean that they moved the mummified baby from where it had been for the 40 some-what years prior to that into the storage facility. That is soooooo weird!!! Well, the whole story is, but the fact that they actually moved it after forty something years is even more weird!
it was probably in there basement or attic in there NY or NJ house- then they moved to FL- so they took it with them- better then leaving it for the new owners
I feel like I saw or heard this before- it must have been on Law and Order or something
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Kate07
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
it was probably in there basement or attic in there NY or NJ house- then they moved to FL- so they took it with them- better then leaving it for the new owners
 OMG...you think they would have buried it sometime between 1957 and 1996. I'm sorry but that is so disrespectful to human life....
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
My inlaws live in Delray...
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
Posted by joenick
But wait...the couple started renting the storage unit in 1996. That would mean that they moved the mummified baby from where it had been for the 40 some-what years prior to that into the storage facility. That is soooooo weird!!! Well, the whole story is, but the fact that they actually moved it after forty something years is even more weird!
Maybe they did not put it there....maybe someone snuck it in while they were moving their stuff into the unit?
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
Posted by Kate07
it was probably in there basement or attic in there NY or NJ house- then they moved to FL- so they took it with them- better then leaving it for the new owners
OMG...you think they would have buried it sometime between 1957 and 1996. I'm sorry but that is so disrespectful to human life....
so creepy- you have to wonder- they said it was a full term baby
what a secret to be carrying for your whole life- and the poor baby- now it can be properly buried
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
That is SOOOOOOOO bizarre and scary!!
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
I wonder if they are going to exhume the parents bodies, take a DNA sample, and then compare it to the baby's? I'm sure the daughter that found the baby is going to want her DNA compared as well.
If the baby doesn't match, then someone put that baby in the storage facility without their knowledge!
OR...this baby had NO relation to them at all and was killed by them for some other reason.
Any way you slice it, this poor child wasn't asked to be born...and then he/she didn't even have a chance to live. 
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
Posted by joenick
Any way you slice it, this poor child wasn't asked to be born...and then he/she didn't even have a chance to live.
We don't know that for sure. Baby could have died of natural causes. Could have been sids could have been anything. BUT it was 50 years ago. Times were different. Im not saying it isn't creepy and they definitely did the WRONG Thing... But we don't know the baby was murdered or anything
ETA I just re read what you wrote. I think I misunderstood sowwy 
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Posted by june262004
Baby could have died of natural causes.
That's what I was thinking. Stillborns & infant deaths were much more common back then, but they were not really discussed.
Maybe it was a home birth, so there was no hospital to intercede.
Who knows how it ended up in a suitcase though ! 
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Re: Mummified baby boy found in 1957 newspaper in Florida
That is insane! OMG! I couldn't even imagine!
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