This episode contains stories involving violence against children.

Listen or discretion is advised. From A&E, this is Cold Case Vials, the podcast.

In Chilton County, Alabama, Rebecca Mims works a minimum wage job and lives in a travel trailer sized 8 feet by 14.

In the summer of 1996, Mims decides to upgrade to a bigger trailer home.

I was living in an 8-14 travel trailer with no restroom or anything.

And this was 10 by 40, 10 by 50, and it had a real bedroom in it, a real bathroom.

Rebecca buys the trailer for $500.

Inside it, she finds a few years worth of trash. Undeterred, Rebecca and her son

begin to clean. A few hours into the job, Rebecca's son finds a blanket inside a bag of

garbage. He went to pulling the blanket out of the bag,

and something fell at his feet,

which I thought was a baby doll.

And he told me it wasn't,

that I better come look.

Rebecca looks at the baby doll and discovers it is actually the mummified remains of what appears to be an infant.

Rebecca calls the Chilton County Sheriff's Department, who processed the crime scene and removed

the infant's remains.

After police leave Rebecca and her son continue to clean, trying to forget what just happened until Rebecca's son picks up

another blanket from the floor of the trailer home. Well he stepped in the door and

took the blanket and took it outside and he went to hollering mama there's something dead in it.

And I said no there's not he said yes it is.

Inside the second blanket Rebecca finds the skeletal remains of a second baby.

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