Coroner Trying to Link 300 Fetal Remains

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Fetuses Stored in Garage Range From 16 Weeks Old to Full-Term
By JOE MANDAK, AP

PITTSBURGH (Aug. 31) - Dozens of women who had abortions or miscarried have contacted the coroner's office to see if their fetuses were among 300 discovered in the garage of a home where a suspended funeral director once lived.

The fetuses were found last week in cardboard boxes, plastic bags and Tupperware-like containers inside the padlocked garage of the home of Robert B. Winston Jr.'s ex-wife.

Winston and his former funeral home, Newman-Winston Memorial Chapel, had a contract with Magee-Womens Hospital from 1999 to 2002 to dispose of fetuses by having them cremated, authorities said.

The fetuses -- which range in gestational age from 16 weeks to full-term -- were marked with labels identifying them variously as "medical waste," "fetuses" and "autopsy cases for Winston Funeral Home."


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This is sick