Authorities in Indiana say additional fetal remains have been found at a Chicago-area storage unit that had been rented by a late doctor who performed abortions in Indiana.
Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill said in a news release that Dr. Ulrich Klopfer’s family members found the additional remains Wednesday, but he didn’t say how many sets there were.
The additional remains were found at a storage unit Klopfer had rented in Cook County, said Lauren Houck, a spokeswoman for the attorney general.
Hill said last week that the more than 2,200 sets of preserved fetal remains found last month in Klopfer’s garage in Will County, near Chicago, had been returned to Indiana.
Klopfer performed abortions at Indiana clinics located in Fort Wayne, Gary and South Bend. He died Sept. 3
After Klopfer died Sept. 3, some of his relatives discovered the fetuses — each labeled and placed in a plastic bag with a preservative called Formalin — in dozens of cardboard boxes stacked in the doctor’s garage in Crete.
Those boxes were mixed in among “hundreds and hundreds” of other boxes, packed floor-to-ceiling in the garage, Will County Sheriff Mike Kelley told reporters last month.
Will County investigators have said the abortions occurred from 2000 to 2002 and, based on the labels, were all performed in Indiana, where Klopfer had clinics — in Gary, Fort Wayne and South Bend.
Indiana authorities on Sept. 19 searched two of the shuttered abortion clinics once operated by Klopfer. Officials in South Bend said nothing was found. Fort Wayne officials at the time would not say what if anything was found inside that former clinic.
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