UPDATE Friday:
The grisly discoveries continued on Friday as Boston Police found “additional human remains at 838 East Broadway. On Thursday, it was reported that a “fetus or infant” was found in the home’s freezer. BPD did not provide any more details in the press release posted on Friday afternoon other than the Medical Examiner’s office removed the other remains for further investigation.
Thursday Report:
Fox25 is reporting that the District Attorney’s office says BPD is investigating a “fetus or infant found in the freezer” in an apartment at 838 East Broadway. It is officially a death investigation.
Boston Police Homicide Detectives along with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the incident. Anyone with information should contact Boston Police Homicide Detectives at (617) 343-4470.
More to follow.
Orignal Post:
There is a large Boston police presence in front of 838 East Broadway on Thursday afternoon around 4:30pm. No word yet, on what police are investigating, but it’s an active scene involving one of the apartments in the building. Detectives from the District Attorney’s office and a medical examiner are one scene too. Waiting on details from BPD.
More to follow.
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I see my old friend Maureen Dahill Galoonis when I’m reading news on my phone,that’s so awesome I loge it
any updates? news from the owner, other people in the building, previous tenant, etc?
Nothing yet. We hope a statement from BPD or Medical Examiner’s office will be released soon.
Is this where a funeral home was in the 60’s?
No – it was an old convent.
This building wasn’t an old convent. You are thinking of the brick building at the corner of M and East Broadway. The nuns from St. Brigid lived there before the new convent was built on N Street. The building at 838 has always been an apartment or condo building. An older family member said that in the 1930s a doctor and his family lived there and that he saw patients on the first floor, but I only have that story to go by. Family has lived a few doors down for decades….
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A condo unit in the building sold just before Thanksgiving for $499,000. The units are quite small – the recently-sold condo was about 600 square feet.