GENEVA – Kane County Coroner Rob Russell said he couldn’t believe what he found when he walked into Building F of the Kane County Government Center, which his office uses for storage.

Nearly 50 containers of unclaimed cremation remains were stacked on a corner shelf, sharing the same room as furniture, boxes of old files, shovels, typewriters and holiday decorations, including a box labeled as “reaper of souls.”

“The day I walked in here, I could not believe these were human remains next to files,” Russell said Thursday to a small group of reporters.