Description

This Unidentified White Male fetus at 6 months gestation was found dead on October 21st, 1979 in the basement incinerator at a multi-unit apartment complex located at 3953 North Maryland Avenue in Shorewood, WI. A tenant at 3953 North Maryland Avenue was placing some cardboard and newspapers in the basement incinerator to be burned and disposed of. After burning the cardboard and newspapers in the incinerator, the tenant raked through the ashes and noticed a solid mass in the ashes. The tenant discovered that the solid mass was the body of a fetus and called the police. Each floor of the apartment complex is equipped with chutes leading to the incinerator and the lobby door of the apartment complex does not lock and is available to the general public.