Human remains found again at vacant Cleveland funeral home during demolition.
The cremated remains of five people were found this week during demolition of an abandoned East Side funeral home in Cleveland, Ohio where the unclaimed ashes of 43 people were found eight years ago.
Workers for A&D Contracting told police they found the ashes in tagged plastic bags on Monday morning, in the former M.L. Baldwin Funeral Chapel on Crawford Road at Wade Park Avenue.
The workers said the ashes were on a shelf that was empty when they left the site on Friday. Neighbors said the bags were left on the shelf by curiosity-seekers who discovered them while picking through the building on Sunday.
Police removed the bags from the site on Monday afternoon. Their disposition could not be determined on Tuesday. The coroner’s office was not involved, a spokesman said.
The previous discovery of cremated human remains came when the city’s building department was inspecting the condemned property for asbestos in June 2002.
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