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Philadelphia police made a gruesome discovery, and they think it might solve the case of a baby that went missing in Baltimore two years ago.

Several weeks ago, Baltimore police received a tip alleging that an 18-month-old child had been killed in the city and taken elsewhere, police said. A follow-up investigation led police to Philadelphia.

Detectives with the Philadelphia and Baltimore police departments searched a rowhouse in the southern part of the city and found what could be human remains in a suitcase, according to Sterling Clifford, a Baltimore police spokesman.

Clifford said police investigators were waiting for results of an autopsy to determine whether the remains are human and, if so, how the child died.

He said detectives know the identity of the child that was reportedly killed and that they are working to identify the remains that were removed from the South Philadelphia rowhouse.