Overview
- Anoka County investigators said forensic genetic genealogy using DNA from the infant’s umbilical cord, processed by Othram, produced paternal matches that led to identifying the parents.
- Detectives interviewed the woman in July 2025, and she said she gave birth alone as a teenager in 1983, believed the unresponsive baby was stillborn, and left her beside a road.
- The man identified as the father told investigators he did not know about the pregnancy or the baby until he was contacted by detectives.
- The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office re-examined the original autopsy and again could not determine whether the baby was stillborn or born alive and later died.
- The Anoka County Attorney’s Office declined to file charges, citing no proof of a homicide and an expired statute of limitations for disposing of human remains, and the sheriff’s office closed the case without naming those involved.