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Remains of 11 babies found in ceiling of former Detroit funeral home

US news October 14, 2018
An anonymous letter led to the discovery of the decomposed remains of 11 infants at a former funeral home in Detroit on Friday. The remains were found in a hidden false ceiling at Cantrell Funeral Home, which was shut down in April for "deplorable, unsanitary conditions."
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· 13 Oct 2018

Decomposed bodies of 11 babies found in ceiling of closed funeral home in Detroit

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· 14 Oct 2018

6 months after a funeral home in Detroit was shut down for "deplorable, unsanitary conditions," the corpses of 11 infants were found hidden in a ceiling

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· 14 Oct 2018

Inspectors with the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs found the remains Friday at the former Cantrell Funeral Home, just hours after receiving the letter telling them where the bodies were located.

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· 13 Oct 2018

Detroit police say the babies’ bodies were found in a hidden false ceiling during Friday’s search of the former Cantrell Funeral Home. He says nine bodies were in a cardboard box and two were in trash bags in a single casket.

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· 13 Oct 2018

UPDATE: This is the ceiling where the bodies of 11 infants and stillborns were found at the former Cantrell Funeral Home in Detroit. Investigators are now working to identify the remains. MORE:

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· 13 Oct 2018

"Some of the bodies had a tag on referring back to 2009, some bodies had receipts on them as if the person or family didn't finish paying."

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· 12 Oct 2018

"On behalf of my family I'm really sorry that it happened and totally appalled," Raymond Cantrell, the former owner of a funeral home where the bodies of 11 infants were found, said.

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· 13 Oct 2018

The remains of 11 babies were discovered above the ceiling of a shuttered funeral home in Detroit, police said.

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