The University of Texas in Austin (UTA) had 100 brains unaccounted for a period of time Wednesday, but they have reportedly been found.

Timothy Schallert, a neuroscience professor at UTA confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that the brains were located at the school's San Antonio campus. He said this story would not ordinarily get a lot of attention, but the timing had a bit of significance.

The mix-up occurred Wednesday, one day after the release of a book called "Malformed: Forgotten Brains of the Texas State Mental Hospital" by Adam Voorhes and Alex Hannaford.

"I didn't think this would get this much interest in the media," Schallert told the Times. "But thanks to media reports, we now know what happened.

"They have the brains," he said of the San Antionio campus. "They read a media report of the missing brains and they called to say: 'We got those brains!'

"I know the brains will be treated very well there."

The story may have also gained national attention because Schallert told the Austin American-Statesman Tuesday night that "somebody may have taken the brains, but we don't know at all for sure." 200 were transferred to UTA from the Austin State Hospital in 1986, each in a jar of the preservative formaldehyde, and the 100 "missing" came from this group.

Among the collection is believed to be the brain of Charles Whitman, a man who killed 16 with a sniper rifle from a tower on UTA's campus on August 1, 1966 after he already murdered his wife and mother. Police killed the former U.S. Marine to end his deadly rampage.

The only question now remaining is whether that brain is in San Antonio or Austin.

UTA said in a statement that the brains are used for academic and scientific purposes and that they "take our roles as stewards of them very seriously."