Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Detectives are investigating the discovery of two "mummified" babies found wrapped in 1930s newspaper in the basement of a Los Angeles apartment building.
Police said this week they have identified the owner of the steamer trunk in which the babies were found and have contacted her family.
The coroner is still trying to figure out how and when the babies -- whose remains were found in two doctor's bags -- died.
"The coroner has done an autopsy on both (babies) and has given us an indication that, at this point, there ... is no determination of death, as to the cause of death," Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Fabian Lizzaraga said at a news conference.
Two women cleaning out a large storage room in an apartment building found the remains last month. The owner of the building, in the Westlake area just west of downtown, had asked the women to clear out the room, which had been abandoned and neglected for many years, the LAPD said.
The women found several antique luggage trunks with the doctor's bags inside one of them. The babies were wrapped in the pages of a 1930s-era Los Angeles Times newspaper, the LAPD said.
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