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The Cantrell Funeral Home isn't done revealing its secrets. The Detroit News reports four sets of cremains -- the ashes of a cremated body -- were found in the building's basement by the new owner last week. One had a label dated 1996.
The most recent discovery brings the total number of unattended remains found in the Cantrell Funeral Home on Detroit's east side to 38.
Over the past three days, four cremated bodies were found in the basement of the shuttered funeral home at 10400 Mack Ave., said Naveed Syed, the building's owner.
“My construction workers found the remains in the basement,” said Syed, CEO of Quality Behavioral Health Services, a nonprofit addiction treatment and counseling center. “They were all in individual containers with the person’s name on the container.”
No explanation has emerged about why the Cantrell facility was in such a state, with bodies stacked in a garage and the remains of 11 infants, most of them miscarried or stillborn fetuses, found in a ceiling last week. Syed bought the building after it had been closed by state regulators in the spring. The state continues to investigate.
