Building manager Gloria Gomez, left, and tenant Yiming Xing were checking the contents of three trunks in the storage room of a MacArthur Park apartment building when they found the remains of two infants. Behind them is the basement where the remains were found. See full story(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
A page of the Sept. 17, 1937, edition of the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express was used as wrapping paper for crockery discovered along with the skeletal remains of two babies in a steamer trunk stored in the basement of a building in the 800 block of Lake Street. See full story(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Building manager Gloria Gomez, 50, points to where in a steamer trunk she and Yiming Xing discovered the remains of two infants. See full story(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
A folder carrying the Peter Pan Woodland Club membership certificate issued to Mrs. Jean Barrie was one of the things discovered along with the remains of the babies in a trunk. See full story(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
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Building manager Gloria Gomez, 50, holds a ticket for the 1932 Olympics, held in Los Angeles, that was found among the remains. See full story(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Building manager Gloria Gomez displays the name written in the New Rational Typewriting manual that was found with the remains of the babies. See full story(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Gloria Gomez shows a Peter Pan Woodland Club membership certificate issued to Mrs. Jean Barrie. The certificate was found with the remains. See full story(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
LAPD detectives Julian Pere, left, and John Motto emerge from the building where two women discovered the remains of two infants bundled inside an old steamer trunk. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)