‘Skin, hair and everything’: US man Adam Smith finds ‘mummified’ baby while cleaning mother’s freezer
- Gruesome discovery was hidden in box that ‘secretive’ Missouri woman had kept for decades
- Told that box contained wedding cake top, son looked inside after mother died, hoping to find money
A Missouri man cleaning out his mother’s freezer last weekend made a horrifying discovery: a frozen human baby.
Adam Smith found the baby inside a box his mother had stored in the freezer for as long as he can remember, KMOV-TV reported.
“It still had skin, hair and everything; it was mummified,” he told KSDK-TV. “After that, I freaked out, put it in the box and called police right away.”
His mother lived in a St Louis apartment for more than 20 years and died last week of lung cancer, Smith told the St Louis-Post Dispatch. She was 68.
All I can remember is that she told me, ‘My oldest child would have been 21 today’
Smith, 37, never thought to look in the box before Sunday, KSDK reported. He said he was told the box contained a wedding cake top.
Describing his mother as secretive, he told the local station he opened it out of curiosity, thinking money could be inside with a cake top. Instead, he found a baby wrapped in pink fleece.