The remains of four infants were found inside a Massachusetts apartment earlier this month, according to police.
Boston Police Department (BPD) officers responded to a call to investigate an apartment at 838 East Broadway, in South Boston, at about 2:15 p.m. on November 17.
According to a November 28 BPD Facebook post, officers found the remains of one human fetus or infant.
The post said: "On Friday, November 18, 2022, homicide detectives located what appears to be additional human remains, which were removed by personnel from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for further investigation.
"A post-mortem examination was performed on two infant males and two infant females, and the results of the autopsies remain pending.
"The Boston Police Homicide Detectives along with the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office continue to investigate this incident. We don't anticipate any additional information at this time."
BPD shared no further information about the identities of the infants and no arrests have yet been made in connection with the case.
According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons Systems (NamUS), an estimated 4,400 unidentified bodies are recovered each year in the U.S. About 1,000 of those bodies remain unidentified after one year.
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Anyone with information is strongly urged to contact Boston Police Homicide Detectives at (617) 343-4470. Community members wishing to assist this investigation anonymously can do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1 (800) 494-TIPS or by texting the word 'TIP' to CRIME (27463).
The Boston Police Department will stringently guard and protect the identities of all those who wish to help this investigation in an anonymous manner.
Newsweek has contacted the BPD for comment.
In July, an investigation was launched after a couple discovered a contactor for a funeral home in Lodi, California, threw away the remains of their stillborn baby.
The Lodi Police Department received a report on July 16 from the Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home that the body of a stillborn baby was missing from the storage area.
Police later said they discovered video footage from the funeral home that showed a contracted employee discarding an item containing the baby's remains two weeks before the report was made.
In May, two women were arrested by New Jersey authorities after the remains of a human fetus were found in the basement of a home.
Nicole Tsentas, from Emerson, and Amanda Walker, from Wayne, were apprehended on May 9 in connection with the discovery.
Both women were charged with disturbing, desecrating human remains, a second-degree crime.
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