From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 3, 1974:

Police were investigating the discovery of a fetus, apparently a specimen that had been preserved in formaldehyde, that had been found this week in the Lawrence city landfill. Police Chief Richard Stanwix said today checks were being made with Kansas University and Lawrence city schools, several of which had reportedly had such specimens from time to time for study. After local officers had made the discovery, the police department had called Dr. Laurance Price, county coroner, and David Berkowitz, county attorney. Price said later he had been told the matter was out of his jurisdiction, the fetus being too small to require a death certificate, but that decision had been reversed by Stanwix later and the fetus had been taken to the hospital, where it remained today pending the finalization of a police report. Stanwix said he thought it would be difficult to find the former owner of the specimen. “No one’s going to want to admit to it now,” he said.