In Spain, a woman found the remains of an infant in the freezer of her deceased mother

A discovery while sorting belongings

In the Spanish town of Allariz, a woman sorting through the belongings of her recently deceased mother found the remains of a child in the freezer. This was reported by Le Parisien citing the circumstances of the discovery. According to preliminary data, the infant may have died more than 20 years ago, but investigators still have to determine whether the baby was born alive and under what circumstances it died. Even the identity of its parents is unknown.

What complicates the investigation

A separate difficulty for the investigation is the freezer's own journey. According to media reports, it was previously located in another town and was moved several times from one apartment to another before ending up in Allariz. Police are trying to establish whether the body was inside during these moves and whether anyone could have known about it.

Progress of the inquiry

The remains were handed over to forensic experts. To establish kinship, DNA samples were taken from several people and sent for analysis to Madrid; police also questioned people from the deceased owner's circle. Thus, at this point the discovery itself and the initial investigative steps are confirmed, while the key questions — the time and cause of the child's death, the identity of the parents, and whether those around her knew — remain open.

A similar case a month earlier

This is not the first such report in the Spanish news chronicle in recent months: earlier, Gazeta.Ru wrote about a man who kept the bodies of his parents in a freezer for 30 years and came under investigation. The cases are united only by the method of concealing the remains; no connection between them was noted in the publications.