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Mummy baby buried Tuesday, though identity still unknown

Thu, Mar 20th 2008 12:00 am
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Two years after police in Concord confiscated an 18-inch mummified baby boy from a man's apartment, the city was expected to bury it Tuesday, no closer to resolving who he was.

A Merrimack County Probate Court judge ordered the remains of "Baby John" buried after DNA tests failed to prove the boy was related to Charles Peavey.

Peavey's family had the mummy for 80 to 90 years when the Concord police learned about it in April 2006. Peavey, like his relatives before him, considered the mummy a family heirloom and believed it was possibly the stillborn son of a great-great-uncle.

DNA samples taken from the mummy, however, were too degraded to yield answers. In January, the state attorney general's office asked the probate court to order the remains buried.