A contractor for a funeral home in Lodi, California, tossed the body of a stillborn baby into the trash, and now police have launched an investigation.
Employees at Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home contacted police Saturday after discovering the body was missing from storage, Lodi police said in a statement.
Investigators learned the body had been tossed out by an employee from a contracted transport service, authorities said. The employee threw out a box that held the remains about two weeks earlier, police said.
