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Riddle of Scots woman and dead babies discovered in Los Angeles

A Scottish woman, who died 15 years ago, is now officially at the centre of a US police investigation after a trunk containing the mummified remains of a baby and a foetus were found in her former apartment building.

Investigators have confirmed that the trunk belonged to Janet M Barrie, who emigrated to North America from Scotland in the mid-1920s, first to Canada and then to the United States.