On Dec. 7, 1985, Armand and Lorraine Pelletier said their dog, Paca, woke them up in the middle of the night wanting to be let in from outside. Armand Pelletier answered the door and saw a newborn baby on his doorstep.
Armand Pelletier said he immediately called his wife out to take a look. As a medical assistant, Lorraine Pelletier said she checked out the baby girl and she knew she was dead.
"This baby was a perfect little baby, I mean she even had a little dimple, just cute as a button..." Lorraine Pelletier said.
The Pelletier's then immediately called the police.
"I was afraid they were going to take my dog away, and they said no, we're not gonna take your dog away, your dog was trying to save this baby," Lorraine Pelletier said.
In the days and months that followed, the Pelletier's were haunted by the what-ifs.
"One of the questions I asked them, I said you know if this baby had lived, would we have had a chance to adopt her, because we're not able to have children," Lorraine Pelletier said.
Lorraine Pelletier said she always thought the mother of the baby came just over the border to Frenchville from Canada, not someone who police now suspect to be from the same town.
"It's too bad that she didn't ring our doorbell and say I need some help. We've helped so many people in our lives," Lorraine Pelletier said.
The owners of the dog that brought the body of a newborn baby home to them more than 35 years ago are speaking out in the wake of an arrest being made in the case.
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