Identified! "Baby Skylar", infant found deceased in bathroom of Phoenix airport in 2005, mother Annie Anderson, 51, arrested, 20 February 2024

[Mary-Belle]

She had a consistently terrible haircut from early adulthood to present day.

My favorite comment of the entire day!

 

[Ladyotm]

She had a consistently terrible haircut from early adulthood to present day.

The laugh we didn't know we needed! LOL

 

[HmmMysterious]

Annie Anderson is still fighting extradition. Her next extradition hearing will be in 6 days, March 29.

Snohomish County woman appears in court in connection to 2005 death of baby at Phoenix airport

 

[Campizi67]

Did anyone ever say what the circumstances were surrounding the discovery? What prompted someone to search the trash for the baby—was it due to an unusual odor, or perhaps other factors? Additionally, do we know how long the bag had been sitting in the bathroom trash can?

This is puzzling because I can't figure out why anyone would be going through the trash in the airport bathroom.

i'm glad the baby was found, don't get me wrong, I'm just curious as to how it came about.

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Did anyone ever say what the circumstances were surrounding the discovery? What prompted someone to search the trash for the baby—was it due to an unusual odor, or perhaps other factors? Additionally, do we know how long the bag had been sitting in the bathroom trash can?

This is puzzling because I can't figure out why anyone would be going through the trash in the airport bathroom.

i'm glad the baby was found, don't get me wrong, I'm just curious as to how it came about.

A customer misplaced their laptop so I guess the airport turned the place upside down to try and find it.

 

[arielilane]

Video of her arrest from December 2023

https://twitter.com/x/status/1778808197727596713

ANDERSON IN AZ: As we reported last night at 10, Annie Anderson (the suspect in the Baby Skylar case) is now in AZ. Her new mugshot is on the left. Although mugshots are typically not public record in WA (where she was being held) here is her mugshot from December that was uploaded in her court documents. I’ll share the body camera we also got earlier this week below in the thread

INITIAL APPEARANCE: Here is Anderson’s first appearance in AZ court. She is being held without bond right now, MCAO prosecutors not commenting much during the IA.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1778809655608955275

 

[ifindedout]

Disturbing details revealed about woman suspected of killing ‘Baby Skylar’ at Phoenix Sky Harbor

Annie Anderson, 51, was extradited from Washington and arrived in Phoenix Thursday night.

www.azfamily.com

According to documents, 51-year-old Annie Anderson told Phoenix police that she gave birth in a hotel room, claiming that the baby was stillborn and delivered into a bathtub filled with water. However, the report says her claims were inconsistent with the medical examiner, who determined the child died from suffocation.

Documents say she then told police that she put the dead baby in a backpack and threw the pack into a trashcan in a women’s bathroom at Sky Harbor because she “knew she could not go through security with a dead baby.”

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The medical examiner determined Skylar was alive for about 24 hours and died from suffocation.

 

[OrangeCash]

Video of her arrest from December 2023

https://twitter.com/x/status/1778808197727596713

I wonder if that was the first time she heard what she was being arrested for. Sighing and tilting your head to the side wasn't the reaction I was expecting. Even if she'd been expecting it to come back on her someday, or if she was expecting to be arrested for other criminal behaviours etc, you'd have thought there would still be an element of shock or confusion or being taken aback at hearing she was being arrested for murder. But instead it's a sigh and an eye roll. It's bizarre
MOO

 

[Hippiemomof5]

I wonder why she allowed the baby to live 24 hours just to suffocate her. So sad.

 

[OrangeCash]

I wonder why she allowed the baby to live 24 hours just to suffocate her. So sad.

I assumed she gave birth, wrapped the baby and put her in a bin at the airport. The baby manages to stay alive until she suffocates and is then discovered later by the airport staff

 

[BrownRice]

She could have left the baby in the hotel, anywhere. Called a charity. Gone to the fire dept. An adoptive family would have been over the moon with that call.

Baby Skylar would be going to her senior prom this month, graduating high school next month, etc.

 

[BrownRice]

I assumed she gave birth, wrapped the baby and put her in a bin at the airport. The baby manages to stay alive until she suffocates and is then discovered later by the airport staff

One of the articles said the dead baby was put in her backpack and deposited in the bathroom because she couldn’t go thru security with a dead baby. Seriously:-(

 

[OrangeCash]

One of the articles said the dead baby was put in her backpack and deposited in the bathroom because she couldn’t go thru security with a dead baby. Seriously:-(

That's what she told Police but the medical examiner stated the baby had been born alive, lived for around 24 hours and died of suffocation. I think she's trying to claim she dumped the baby because she was stillborn, when she wasn't

 

[redabby]

Well I hope she has lived with the guilt in the intervening years. It certainly looks like its weighed on her , she looks more 71 than 51.

 

[Friday Fan]

She looks and sounds mean. Usually these moms who do this are troubled and in difficult circumstance, but this one even looked plain old mean in HS.

 

[lightofmine99]

The "sanpaku eyes" superstition strikes again I see.

 

[ConcernedVA]

Parabon was 93% confident that her hair was blonde- maybe Annie dyed it

Police Predictions - Parabon® Snapshot® DNA Analysis Service

Maybe she was one of those people who was a blonde child whose hair darkened.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[dotr]

Woman accused of dumping baby in trash can is bailed by abortion group

Annie Anderson, 51, was arrested last year after genetic genealogy tied her to a baby's remains that were left in a Sky Harbor Airport bathroom in Phoenix, Arizona in 2005.

www.dailymail.co.uk

15 January 2025 rbbm

''She said she gave birth to a stillborn child in a hotel bathtub, and confessed to holding the baby underwater when she didn't know what to do. Anderson then dumped the body in the airport when she flew back to Washington the next day.

A medical examiner claimed the newborn was alive for 24 hours before it was found, and died from suffocation.

She has remained in custody since her arrest, until the Repro Legal Defense Fund stepped last month and paid her $200,000 bail.

Repro Legal Defense Fund has now gotten involved with the murder case, with the organization's website noting they provide funding for people fighting charges related to a pregnancy or abortion.

Criminal defense attorney Russ Richelsoph, who is not affiliated with the case, told AZ Family that the bail payment may be indicative of how Anderson's defense plan to challenge her case in court.

'It’s possible that the defense in this case is going to be that the medical examiner is wrong and that the baby was in fact stillborn,' he said.''