A Tullahoma, Tennessee, woman with a 27-year-old secret has been booked on charges in connection with a newborn’s remains found in a storage unit she rented in 1994.
According to allegations contained in a sealed indictment, 62-year-old Tullahoma resident Melissa Sims McCann rented a storage unit at Watts-N-Storage on Old Estill Springs Road to keep her secret for almost three decades. McCann is charged with abuse of a corpse in the first count and in the second count that she disposed of a corpse in violation of the law, according to the indictment issued Friday by a Coffee County grand jury.
Each of the counts are class E felonies, which carry a potential sentence of one to six years, depending on criminal history, according to state law. A fine up to $3,000 can be ordered.
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The charges stem from a Nov. 13 call to Tullahoma police regarding unidentified remains found in a storage unit that had contents that were recently auctioned, 14th Judicial District Attorney General Craig Northcott said in a news release issued Friday.