PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Two mummified skulls of infants have been linked to a century-old western Pennsylvania murder after Mütter Museum employees discovered them among their inventory.
Mütter Museum staff members were taking inventory last November when they stumbled upon a box labeled, “two mummified infant heads.” Erin McLeary, senior director of collections and research, said the box identified late Montgomery County coroner Halbert Fillinger as the donor.
The box had what’s known as a “found number,” McLeary said, “meaning that at some point … someone located these two remains, assigned it a number, and simply moved on with whatever they were doing at that time.” That was back in 2005…