Bodies of 11 Infants Found in False Ceiling of Former Funeral Home

By Daily Wire. On Friday, following an anonymous tip, authorities discovered the bodies of 11 infants in the ceiling of what used to be a funeral home in Detroit, Michigan.

The Cantrell Funeral Home was closed down in April after inspectors from the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) found it to be in violation of numerous codes, including the “improper storage” of multiple embalmed bodies.

Quality Behavioral Health had since bought the former funeral home with plans to turn it into a community center.

LARA received an anonymous letter on Friday directing them to the bodies, which were found in a “drop-down ceiling accessible from an attic ladder” in the building, according to Detroit Free Press. When LARA officials got to the scene, they found a cardboard box and a casket in the ceiling. The police were then called to investigate.

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11 Infant Bodies Found at Former Detroit Funeral Home: What We Know

By Detroit Free Press. The grisly discovery Friday of 11 badly-decomposed infant bodies inside the ceiling of a former funeral home on Detroit’s east side raises disturbing questions of how this could have happened.

The anonymous tip that brought state investigators to the former Cantrell Funeral Home at 10400 Mack Avenue revealed nine bodies in a cardboard box, and two inside a trash bag placed in a casket.

The building’s new owner, who purchased it about a month ago, said the interior smelled horribly, and he’d removed four dumpsters of garbage as he started renovating it into a community center.

Officials on Sunday still had no answers to why the bodies were there, and none of the identities of the infants or their relatives had been disclosed. . .

The Cantrell Funeral Home operated by Raymond Cantrell II, who inherited the business after his father died in 2016, was shuttered in April after state inspectors cited “deplorable, unsanitary conditions.” (Read more from “11 Infant Bodies Found at Former Detroit Funeral Home: What We Know” HERE)

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