40-Year-Old Remains Of Twin Infants Found In Dead Woman's Home Were Her Kids

The skeletal remains of infants found in a mobile home in Ohio are the children of the deceased woman who lived there, officials said.

The remains of the two infants were found last December inside a locked footlocker in the North Canton mobile home of a recently deceased 66-year-old woman, the Associated Press reported.

Investigators were able to confirm Thursday that the babies, believed to be twins, were Judith Shumar's children. Investigators aren't sure how long the infants were in the footlocker, but they estimate it was for at least 40 years.

"Looking at the bones, they had been in there a long time," North Canton Police Chief Stephan Wilder told Reuters back in December 2013. "Whether it was five years or 50 we don't know."

The remains were found when Shumar's then 41-year-old son was cleaning out the mobile home located about 45 miles southeast of Cleveland. He opened the footlocker to find a tiny skull and femur wrapped in an old blanket inside a plastic bag, Reuters reported.

The son, whose name has not been reported, previously told police he remembers helping his mother move the blue footlocker into her home over five years ago. He also said he barely kept in contact with his mother and was "shocked, alarmed and concerned" when he found the bones," Wilder told Reuters.

Police sent the remains to the University of North Texas for DNA testing. Shumar's family was notified about the results on Thursday and is making final preparations for the infants, the AP reported.

Shumar died of natural causes in November 2013. The Stark County coroner, however, was unable to confirm how the babies died and ruled the cause as undetermined.

"That's all we can do right now," Wilder told the AP. "I would say the case is pretty much closed."