Clues emerging in Delray mummy mystery

DELRAY BEACH - The mummified baby encased in newspapers from 1957 and found this week in a Delray Beach storage unit still had an attached umbilical cord, police said Thursday.

Packed with the infant boy were rosary beads, a rendering of Jesus, a photograph of a 5- or 6-year-old girl and a birthday prayer, said Delray Beach Police Detective Gene Sapino. X-rays showed no broken bones, though 50 years of dehydration left the newborn-sized baby weighing 13 ounces by the time his body was sent to the medical examiner this week.