The remains, found at the Mütter Museum, belonged to one of five babies hidden in an attic trunk at the home of Stella Elizabeth Williamson, a Gallitzin woman who died in 1980.
After her death, authorities were led to the attic, where they found the bodies of four newborns and one infant, wrapped in newspapers from the 1920s and ’30s. The case made national headlines at the time. Three of the babies had been strangled, according to investigators in 1980.
The skulls surfaced at the Mütter Museum, where they had been preserved for decades. One still had a noose around its neck. The coroner was call to investigate in December 2024…