SC Home Renovations Find Baby's Bones In Wall From Long Ago

[Satanica]

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Authorities gathered the remains on Saturday from the home in Pacolet and will send them to a forensic anthropologist to study, Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger said in a statement.

It wasn't immediately apparent how long ago the baby died, or how old it was at the time. The coroner's statement referred to the bones as “fetal human skeletal remains.”

“Based on our limited information, it is believed the remains have been concealed for a long period of time,” Clevenger said.

Coroner's Office investigators will work with the anthropologist to determine the identity of the baby, how the child might have died and how the remains ended up inside the wall of the home on Milliken Street.

Law enforcement may be called to help if the coroner's investigation determines something criminal may have happened, Clevenger said.

It will likely take several months to finish the work, the coroner said.

SC home renovations find baby's bones in wall from long ago

Authorities say someone remodeling a house in an old mill town in South Carolina found bones from a baby inside a wall

abcnews.go.com

 

[VisionsofParadise]

I can hear the excuses nøw....
"She must've crawled in while we were fixing the wall." Etc.

Rip poor thing
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& this article adds a whole new meaning tø "If these walls could talk."

 

[Blizzard]

This was an interesting comment on the original news story.

Sophie Rose wrote:

I had a high school friend die from a back alley abortion in the 1960s. She and her boyfriend were afraid to tell their "religious" parents, so they went to Chicago for and abortion. Back then single people could not get birth control, in fact a married women couldn't without her husband's permission.

If a girl got pregnant she was kicked out of high school even if she married the father, while he could stay in class. She lost her college scholarships, her parents would disown her, no one would hire her or rent her a place to live. So it is NOT surprising that women from the 1960's and earlier would do anything to conceal a pregnancy.

Today girls/women are more fortunate they can easily access birth control, abortions or adoption resources. Getting pregnant does not get you kicked out of school, or to lose your college scholarships, or your job. There are resources available if you choose to keep your baby. AND YET -girls/women fail to use birth control, abortion, adoption instead still killing their babies to hide the fact they were pregnant.

Women/girls WISE UP - it is much easier to use birth control then to try to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. IF, nothing else make the guy wear a condom every time.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

Would be nice if the article mentioned how old the house was or something about the walls. 50 years, 100 years ago?

 

[Inferus]

Skeletons in the closet? Fuck that, we've got bones in the walls!!!

 

[Sejanus]

"Law enforcement may be called to help if the coroner's investigation determines something criminal may have happened."

Tell me how human remains legally get sealed in walls?
Honestly, the dumbest statement heard in 2021 so far!

 

[Freyja]

I bet there is some paranormal activity in that house...

 

[Ramona the brave]

"Law enforcement may be called to help if the coroner's investigation determines something criminal may have happened."

Tell me how human remains legally get sealed in walls?
Honestly, the dumbest statement heard in 2021 so far!

I'm guessing they mean, "something criminal that we can actually prosecute because the perpetrator(s) might still be alive."

The article said "old mill town" and the remains were sent to a forensic anthropologist... Reading between the lines here, I'm guessing there's a definite possibility that the remains have been there for generations. Poor babe.
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Would be nice if the article mentioned how old the house was or something about the walls. 50 years, 100 years ago?

If it helps, I googled Milliken St, Pacolet, SC. It's only a few blocks long, and all the houses on it appear to be 100+ years old. Small, working class family homes but well cared for.

 

[rettasez2]

"Law enforcement may be called to help if the coroner's investigation determines something criminal may have happened."

Tell me how human remains legally get sealed in walls?
Honestly, the dumbest statement heard in 2021 so far!

I wonder...maybe stillborn...winter, couldn't dig frozen ground for a grave?
Perhaps the family newly immigrated, and it was the custom " back home"?
Or, sadly, the baby died as a result of homicide, God forbid...
so that's where they concealed the child.
And, clearly, got away with murder.
The cops would've never put the baby BACK in the wall upon discovery, right?
So, they...
My heart just kinda hurts for them.
All of them
Rest in peace... I wonder if the person responsible for walking up an infant ever gets any peace?