As Janet Geaslin watched deputies raid what Bexar County’s sheriff called a drug house that she said had been terrorizing her West Side neighborhood for two decades, her feeling of relief soon turned to dread.

“We were all dancing when we saw sheriff after undercover sheriff show up,” she said. “You don’t have to be worried about that house anymore.”

The 55-year-old woman’s dread came from the discovery of a dead baby, found in a trunk inside the residence at 1 p.m. in the 7900 block of Bronco Lane.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said the discovery was made as deputies were searching the home on a narcotics warrant.

“It went just like any other narcotics warrant search would,” Salazar said.

A dozen people were found inside the house, Salazar said, along with various drug paraphernalia.

“They found a trunk inside one of the closets that actually contained the remains of a baby,” Salazar said. “At this point, it’s too early to tell if it’s a homicide.”

Salazar said the body is beyond decomposed, in a desiccated state.

The diaper-clad baby was found wrapped up in a blanket, deputies said. Investigators said they were not able to determine the baby’s gender.

“There are pictures on the wall of children, and some of those children are various ages,” Salazar said. Investigators are taking those photos as evidence.

Salazar said the baby appeared to be less than a year old, and that the body may have been there for months or years.

“All the 12 people that were in the residence were taken in for questioning,” Salazar said. “We’re hoping to find out more in the next couple of hours or days as to what exactly happened here.”

Salazar said that they were working to determine if anyone found in the house is related to the child. The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office took custody of the remains Tuesday afternoon.

“For lack of a better term, it's a drug house,” Salazar said of the residence, noting that most of the people found inside were adults. “A lot of the people are transient in nature, so at this point it’s possible somebody's related and it's possible nobody is related.”

Alejandro Antu, 35, said that he noticed many of the transients who were inside the home could also be seen standing at Loop 410 and Marbach Road.

The elderly man who is believed to own the home also was taken in for questioning. He returned to the house hours later, neighbors said, and burned some of the items that had been left in front of the home as a makeshift memorial for the baby.

The man could be seen yelling at a news crews as well as another neighbor. His return angered Geaslin, who hoped that many of the problems, such as being yelled at by strangers while watering her lawn, had gone away.

“I’m beyond mad,” Geaslin said.

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