A Seattle woman who allegedly abandoned her baby boy to die in a trash can 23 years ago has been arrested after her DNA was matched to that left at the scene.
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According to news accounts from the time the baby boy was discovered on Nov. 20, 1997, the King County Medical Examiner s Office determined he had been born alive two days earlier and ruled his death a homicide. He was buried in January 1998.
The woman, who was 27 years old when the baby was born, was identified through genetic genealogy, an evolving technique in which a genealogist uploads a previously unknown DNA profile to public genealogy sites like GEDmatch and then builds a family tree to identify possible suspects.
Seattle woman arrested 23 years after her infant son was found dead in trash can By Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times
Published: March 12, 2021, 9:45am
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SEATTLE – Baby Boy Doe, who was found dead in a trash can at a 24-hour Lake City convenience store more than 23 years ago, is buried in Section 18 at Seattle’s Calvary Cemetery, his grave stone adorned with a teddy bear in one corner.
Seattle police on Thursday arrested the infant’s now 50-year-old mother and booked her into the King County Jail on investigation of homicide, according to jail records and an item posted on the police department’s online blotter.