Skulls of 2 Infants at Mütter Museum Linked to Century-Old Pa. Murder

Skulls of 2 infants at Mütter Museum linked to century-old Pa. murder

Two mummified skulls of infants have been linked to a century-old western Pennsylvania murder after Mütter Museum employees discovered them among their inventory.

Two babies’ skulls found at Mutter Museum linked to Gallitzin, murder mystery from 1980

On a Friday last November, staff at the Mutter Museum were in the midst of conducting an audit of the medical history museum’s collection of some 6,600 human remains when they found a box in the library stacks of their Center City building. The tag on it read, “Two mummified infant heads,” said Erin McLeary, senior director of collections and research. It had a “found date” of 2005, which meant an employee noticed the box that year and flagged t…