AgentM
07-26-2007, 04:55 AM
TORONTO — As the setting for a macabre mystery, the old two-storey house at 29 Kintyre Ave. hardly looks the part.
Tucked away in Toronto's Riverdale neighbourhood, it sold just two months ago, for just over a half-million dollars, to a university-educated couple in their 20s.
But on Tuesday night, the house gave up a sad and confounding secret: the mummified body of a baby, wrapped in newspaper dated Sept. 15, 1925. A workman named Bob Kinghorn, a neighbour from two doors down hired to renovate the house, found it hidden between the second-floor ceiling and the attic floor above.
In the process, a shocked Mr. Kinghorn unwrapped a bundle of tough questions that Toronto police and the Ontario coroner's office, who rarely deal with mummified remains, will now try to answer.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070725.wbaby0725/BNStory/National/home
Tucked away in Toronto's Riverdale neighbourhood, it sold just two months ago, for just over a half-million dollars, to a university-educated couple in their 20s.
But on Tuesday night, the house gave up a sad and confounding secret: the mummified body of a baby, wrapped in newspaper dated Sept. 15, 1925. A workman named Bob Kinghorn, a neighbour from two doors down hired to renovate the house, found it hidden between the second-floor ceiling and the attic floor above.
In the process, a shocked Mr. Kinghorn unwrapped a bundle of tough questions that Toronto police and the Ontario coroner's office, who rarely deal with mummified remains, will now try to answer.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070725.wbaby0725/BNStory/National/home