Special Equipment Brought In To Find Burial Site Of Babies’ Remains In Cambria Co.

The Cambria County Coroner’s Office will be using special equipment tomorrow in search of five babies whose remains were buried in a Cambria County cemetery 40 years ago.  The babies, 3 of whom were strangled to death, were found in a trunk in the Gallitzin home of Stella Williamson after she died in 1980.  Recently, the coroner’s office attempted to exhume the bodies of the babies from the Laurel United Cemetery in Ebensburg, after it was discovered that the heads of two of the children had been found at a museum in Philadelphia.  Coroner Jeff Lees wanted to bury the babies together, however when the burial site was dug open last week, nothing was there.  Yesterday, during a press conference, Lees told reporters that special ground-penetrating equipment that uses radar, will be brought in tomorrow in an effort to find the exact location of the babies remains.  Earlier this week, county investigators said the former pathologist, Dr. Halbert Fillinger, who investigated the case decades ago, donated two of the babies’ skulls to the museum, without permission.  Coroner Lees said the case will stay open until the remains of all five babies are reunited.