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6. Here is another link, from an Edinburgh Newspaper.. (Edinburghnews-Scotsman)

Fri Sep 1, 2017, 09:02 PM

Sep 2017

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/mother-s-anguish-after-discovering-her-baby-s-empty-coffin-1-4549040

The story might be the same, but this is the home town of the event, perhaps there is more news than is in the OP...What a horrific story..

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40-year campaign to exhume baby's body produces empty coffin [View all] Equinox Moon Sep 2017 OP

Life imitating art again (in a sense) sandensea Sep 2017 #1

Probably won't be popular but Egnever Sep 2017 #2

That's very decent of you sandensea Sep 2017 #3

I'm safe, then Orrex Sep 2017 #11

LOL! joshdawg Sep 2017 #15

I agree, 100% Demonaut Sep 2017 #5

Some religions require you to be buried intact. meadowlander Sep 2017 #19

Religions require all kinds of things Egnever Sep 2017 #21

I'm an atheist meadowlander Sep 2017 #24

Yea sorry Egnever Sep 2017 #25

Not hard at all for me to understand. LisaL Sep 2017 #23

I wonder if some of the "donors" SCVDem Sep 2017 #4

Here is the BBC link..it has the most information..and be warned.. Stuart G Sep 2017 #8

Unbelievable that the parents were treated so shabbily and lied to. SharonClark Sep 2017 #9

What the eff could they have saved dead baby parts for in 1974? hedda_foil Sep 2017 #10

It wasn't as common, but it was happening. Gore1FL Sep 2017 #12

Thanks for the info. hedda_foil Sep 2017 #13

I am very sorry MontanaMama Sep 2017 #14

That's how I feel too. Equinox Moon Sep 2017 #16

Another Possibility - Baby Selling packman Sep 2017 #17