Why the Shock?

They're just potatoes, right?

Neighbors struggled Sunday to reconcile the gruesome discovery with their memories of the nice man who once lived on Evans Street.

Pathologists, meanwhile, examined fetal remains found inside a detached garage behind the modest, two-bedroom house that had been Robert B. Winston Jr.'s home.

"That's crazy," Dervon Harper said. "I don't understand how someone could do something like that."

Renee Brooks, who once shared the house with Winston, alerted authorities after finding the fetuses Friday evening. Magee-Womens Hospital in Oakland hired Winston, 60, to arrange for the fetuses' cremation, according to the Allegheny County Coroner's Office.

Instead, the remains from abortions, stillbirths and miscarriages were stored in 27 labeled boxes, each containing multiple fetuses and accompanied by cremation authorization forms issued by Magee between 1999 and 2002.

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