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Three brothers from Northallerton (North Yorkshire County, UK) discovered last February the mummified remains of another brother, whose existence they did not know, cleaning up the home of their deceased mother . The details of the case were revealed during a judicial interrogation held on November 21 in that city, reports The Independent. The news is reproduced by the Spanish newspapers ABC and El País
Two men and one woman found the mummified body while cleaning the house of their mother, Carol Thompson, who died in January. The baby, of whom no one knew anything, was the eldest brother of the three young men and had died half a century ago .
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The body was in a small box about 45 centimeters long, which the brothers took from the inside. a cabinet located under the staircase of the house
What they found inside the box were "the human and mummified remains of a baby, wrapped in a cloth According to Detective Sergeant Matthew Wilkinson. "No one has known of a brother or the existence of another child," Wilkinson adds. The brothers took the box to the nearest police station and a DNA badysis revealed that it was the biological son of Carol and Melvin Thompson, parents of the three brothers.
The researchers determined that the fabric that wrapped the body was made. in the late '50s or early' 60s, while the box also contained letters dated August 1968 year of the Thompsons' marriage. However, they were not able to specify the circumstances in which the baby had died or the reasons why his body was at home.
Melvin Thompson, who divorced Carol in 1996, badured authorities that he was not aware of it. the existence of the box and that he was not even aware of the pregnancy of his ex-wife. The other three common children were born after 1968.
Forensic expert John Broadbridge, who considers this case as "the most painful" of his 25-year career, does not know if the child, who completed his development in the uterus, was born dead or died after childbirth. "We do not know, despite all the efforts," complains Broadbridge, who considers it "tragic, completely tragic and terribly sad that your mother had to keep a secret like this".
