CT CT - Meriden, WhtMale Infant, UP17754, Umbilical Cord Still Attached, Wrapped in Blankets Behind a Tree, Jan'88

[YaYa_521]

Rest in peace, baby boy.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

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NamUs #UP17754
NamUs Case Created April 13, 2018
ME/C Case Number 88-00034

Male, White / Caucasian
Date Body Found January 2, 1988
Estimated Year of Death 1988
Estimated PMI 2 Days
Inventory of Remains All parts recovered
Condition of Remains Recognizable face
Location Found Meriden, Connecticut
Estimated Age Range 0 Years
Height 1' 8"(20 inches) , Measured
Weight 7 lbs, Measured
Hair Color Blond/Strawberry
Eye Color Blue

Circumstances of Recovery - Newborn baby with umbilical cord still attached found wrapped in blankets behind a tree.

 

[iulia]

His NamUs page has been removed. This was worked on by Colleen Fitzpatrick and was solved back in 2020.

A baby froze to death outside. Now, 32 years later, police found the mom who left him.

The mother, who lives in Connecticut, said she was 25 and "in a very bad state of mind at the time," police said.

www.nbcnews.com

DNA helped police solve a 32-year-old cold case and track down the mother of a newborn boy who was found dead in a Connecticut parking lot in January 1988.

The baby, whom police named David Paul, was found abandoned and frozen to death at the base of a tree in a wooded section of a parking lot in Meriden, about 22 miles southwest of Hartford.

Mom of 'Baby John Doe' found dead in 1988 is ID'd, tells police she waited 32 years for them to knock on her door

The unidentified newborn boy was found on Jan. 2, 1988, in a Connecticut parking lot.

abcnews.go.com

[...]
On November 2019, a team of genealogists found a distant match to the mother. With that information, police started to find female relatives who lived in the neighborhood where the baby was found, Cossette said.

On Jan. 2, 2020 -- 32 years to the day after "David Paul" was found -- Karen Roche was approached by detectives, Cossette said.
[...]
Roche is not expected to face charges, according to police.
Cossette said he believes manslaughter is an appropriate charge, but the statute of limitations has passed.