GUILTY IL - Katie Stockton charged in death of 'Baby Crystal', Rockton, 17 Dec 2004
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do they give an age to the infants? could they be twins? that would make more sense to have no on notice, but to be 2 bodies
either way, my heart goes to those poor babies
Could the 2 have been in the car for an extended period of time? meaning died before the infant that was found?
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Angels Not Forgotten from what I've read the 2 babies found in her car were born after Baby Crystal. IIRC
This case just breaks my heart so much. My niece & her husband tried for 8yrs to have a baby. They finally had twins last yr whom we alomost lost so many times & they are still struggling everyday with health problems. They are still loved just as much & we are so blessed to have them with us.
My niece would have taken these babies in a heartbeat....not to mention how many others in the world that cry everyday longing to have children in their home.
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This case just breaks my heart so much. My niece & her husband tried for 8yrs to have a baby. They finally had twins last yr whom we alomost lost so many times & they are still struggling everyday with health problems. They are still loved just as much & we are so blessed to have them with us.
My niece would have taken these babies in a heartbeat....not to mention how many others in the world that cry everyday longing to have children in their home.
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Katie Stockton Arrest Record
Description
Arrest Record of Katie L. Stockton, the Rockford, IL woman accused of abandoning her infant daughter Crystal in sub-zero weather back in 2004. She has been charged with murder. Police also found the skeletal remains of two other babies in the trunk of her car in August of 2009. She has not as of yet been charged in relation to those remains.
Updated: 9:43 PM Aug 14, 2009
Katie Stockton Arrest Record
Posted:
4:53 PM Aug 14, 2009
Investigators in Winnebago County were no stranger to Katie Stockton. She's
accused of murdering her infant in 2004 and now a suspect in the deaths of two
other infants whose skeletal remains were found in the trunk of her car.
Deputies and local police ha
d arrested her over a dozen times for various
traffic offenses, fraud and theft.
Case Number
Date
Reference Name
Case Type
2004LM001190
*7/13/2004
Beacon Hill Apartments
Forcible Entry &
Detainer
2005SC002849
*8/30/2005
Resurgence Financial
Monies Due
-
Srvc Rendered
1998TR017733
*3/27/1998
Driving 11
-
14 MPH above
limit
Traffic
2001F 000173
*3/20/2001
Adam M. B.
Paternity
2002OP001471
*11/25/2002
John C. C.
Order Protection
2003CF003434
*11/25/2003
Theft/Control/Intent
Criminal Felony
2004TR003786
*1/26/2004
Operate Uninsured Mtr Vehicle
Traffic
2004TR003787
*1/26/2004
Driving 11
-
14 MPH above
limit
Traffic
2004TR003788
*1/26/2004
Seat Belt Required / Driver
Traffic
2005SC001318
*4/27/2005
Cacv of Colorado LLC
Monies Due
-
Srvc Rendered
2007SC004241
*9/11/2007
Asset Acceptance LLC
Monies Due
-
Srvc Rendered
2007TR012699
*3/15/2007
Driving 15
-20 MPH above
limit
Traffic
2008CF003108
*8/11/2008
Present False Info / ILL ID
Criminal
Felony
2008CF003110
*8/11/2008
Poss/ Display Altered ID Card
Criminal Felony
2008CF003247
*8/19/2008
Forgery
Criminal Felony
2008TR002558
*1/25/2008
Operate Uninsured Mtr Vehicle
Traffic
2008TR002559
*1/25/2008
Unlicensed
Traffic
2008TR002560
*1/25/2008
Mufflers/1st, 2nd
Traffic
2008TR002561
*1/25/2008
Regis Expiration/ 1st & 2nd
Traffic
2008TR015965
*4/16/2008
Mufflers/1st, 2nd
-
failure to
appear
Traffic
2008TR026052
*6/5/2008
OP MTR
VEH/Regis/SUSPENDED
Traffic
2008TR026053
*6/5/2008
Operate Uninsured Mtr Vehicle
Traffic
2008TR026054
*6/5/2008
Driving on Suspended License
Traffic
2008TR037264
*7/30/2008
Driving on Suspended License
Traffic
2008TR041091
*8/16/2008
OP MTR
VEH/Regis/SUSPENDED
Traffic
2008TR041092
*8/16/2008
Driving on Suspended License
Traffic
2009CF002414
*8/5/2009
Dec 17,2004
Murder/Intent To Kill/Injure
Criminal Felony
Link:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10099504/Katie-Stockton-Arrest-Record
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Bones in Baby Crystal case were infants
Posted Aug 18, 2009 @ 04:39 PM
Last update Aug 19, 2009 @ 08:26 AM
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Forensic scientists confirmed today that the two bags found last week in the trunk of Katie L. Stockton’s impounded car contained the skeletons of two infants.
How the babies died, whether they were born alive or stillborn, and their age and gender are findings that will take several weeks, Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia said.
Dr. Mark Peters, a forensic pathologist, and a forensic anthropologist from Indiana conducted the all-day examination of the bones. The doctors also collected samples for DNA testing.
Stockton, 28, of rural Rockton is charged with killing her newborn in 2004 by leaving the girl on the side of a country road near her parents’ house. The baby froze to death.
Winnebago County detectives arrested Stockton for murder Aug. 5. They found her 1993 Saturn sedan in a South Beloit Police Department impound lot Aug. 11.
The cause of death of the infants may not be known for six weeks, Fiduccia said in a news release. The release also said no further comments would be made.
Crime lab results awaited
In the meantime, Winnebago County Sheriff Dick Meyers is hoping to hear back from the crime lab by the end of the week. Meyers is waiting for the results of Stockton’s DNA test and whether it’s a match for Baby Crystal. Stockton’s DNA also will be compared against the DNA of the bones found last week.
Crystal is the name law enforcement officials gave the baby they found nearly five years ago abandoned in the snow.
Stockton is in the Winnebago County Jail on $1 million bond.
Few details provided
Last week, Fiduccia said some initial information — such as how many bones were found and whether the babies suffered any trauma before their deaths — could be determined during or shortly after the preliminary exam. The news release makes no mention of these items.
Stockton, who has not been charged in the deaths of the two other infants, is due back in court Sept. 3.
Forensic expert help
Dr. Mark Peters is one of two forensic experts who examined the skeletons of two babies discovered in the trunk of Katie L. Stockton’s car last week.
Peters is a forensic pathologist who has performed autopsies for Winnebago County for several years, Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia said. He is one of six specialists who is on call to perform such examinations for the Winnebago County coroner’s office.
Peters is a medical doctor, Fiduccia said, with additional schooling in pathology and forensics.
He has performed autopsies and determined cause of a death in a number of high-profile cases in Winnebago County.
Peters performed the autopsy of off-duty Rockford police officer Ed Ritter in 2005. In that case, Peters testified at trial that Ritter, who was in a fight outside a Roscoe bar and fell backward, hitting his head on pavement, suffered fractures to the front and the back of his skull, which caused his death.
Peters also testified at the trial of George Hansen, the man convicted of killing business partner MaryAnn Clibbery in December 2004. At trial, Peters said Clibbery was hit three to five times in the head with a blunt object and died four or five hours before her body was found.
Also in December 2004, Peters conducted the autopsy on Baby Crystal, the child Stockton is accused of giving birth to and leaving in a garbage bag by the side of the road.
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Description
Arrest Record of Katie L. Stockton, the Rockford, IL woman accused of abandoning her infant daughter Crystal in sub-zero weather back in 2004. She has been charged with murder. Police also found the skeletal remains of two other babies in the trunk of her car in August of 2009. She has not as of yet been charged in relation to those remains.
Updated: 9:43 PM Aug 14, 2009
Katie Stockton Arrest Record
Posted:
4:53 PM Aug 14, 2009
Investigators in Winnebago County were no stranger to Katie Stockton. She's
accused of murdering her infant in 2004 and now a suspect in the deaths of two
other infants whose skeletal remains were found in the trunk of her car.
Deputies and local police ha
d arrested her over a dozen times for various
traffic offenses, fraud and theft.
Case Number
Date
Reference Name
Case Type
2004LM001190
*7/13/2004
Beacon Hill Apartments
Forcible Entry &
Detainer
2005SC002849
*8/30/2005
Resurgence Financial
Monies Due
-
Srvc Rendered
1998TR017733
*3/27/1998
Driving 11
-
14 MPH above
limit
Traffic
2001F 000173
*3/20/2001
Adam M. B.
Paternity
2002OP001471
*11/25/2002
John C. C.
Order Protection
2003CF003434
*11/25/2003
Theft/Control/Intent
Criminal Felony
2004TR003786
*1/26/2004
Operate Uninsured Mtr Vehicle
Traffic
2004TR003787
*1/26/2004
Driving 11
-
14 MPH above
limit
Traffic
2004TR003788
*1/26/2004
Seat Belt Required / Driver
Traffic
2005SC001318
*4/27/2005
Cacv of Colorado LLC
Monies Due
-
Srvc Rendered
2007SC004241
*9/11/2007
Asset Acceptance LLC
Monies Due
-
Srvc Rendered
2007TR012699
*3/15/2007
Driving 15
-20 MPH above
limit
Traffic
2008CF003108
*8/11/2008
Present False Info / ILL ID
Criminal
Felony
2008CF003110
*8/11/2008
Poss/ Display Altered ID Card
Criminal Felony
2008CF003247
*8/19/2008
Forgery
Criminal Felony
2008TR002558
*1/25/2008
Operate Uninsured Mtr Vehicle
Traffic
2008TR002559
*1/25/2008
Unlicensed
Traffic
2008TR002560
*1/25/2008
Mufflers/1st, 2nd
Traffic
2008TR002561
*1/25/2008
Regis Expiration/ 1st & 2nd
Traffic
2008TR015965
*4/16/2008
Mufflers/1st, 2nd
-
failure to
appear
Traffic
2008TR026052
*6/5/2008
OP MTR
VEH/Regis/SUSPENDED
Traffic
2008TR026053
*6/5/2008
Operate Uninsured Mtr Vehicle
Traffic
2008TR026054
*6/5/2008
Driving on Suspended License
Traffic
2008TR037264
*7/30/2008
Driving on Suspended License
Traffic
2008TR041091
*8/16/2008
OP MTR
VEH/Regis/SUSPENDED
Traffic
2008TR041092
*8/16/2008
Driving on Suspended License
Traffic
2009CF002414
*8/5/2009
Dec 17,2004
Murder/Intent To Kill/Injure
Criminal Felony
Link:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10099504/Katie-Stockton-Arrest-Record
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Bones in Baby Crystal case were infants
Posted Aug 18, 2009 @ 04:39 PM
Last update Aug 19, 2009 @ 08:26 AM
<snipped>
Forensic scientists confirmed today that the two bags found last week in the trunk of Katie L. Stockton’s impounded car contained the skeletons of two infants.
How the babies died, whether they were born alive or stillborn, and their age and gender are findings that will take several weeks, Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia said.
Dr. Mark Peters, a forensic pathologist, and a forensic anthropologist from Indiana conducted the all-day examination of the bones. The doctors also collected samples for DNA testing.
Stockton, 28, of rural Rockton is charged with killing her newborn in 2004 by leaving the girl on the side of a country road near her parents’ house. The baby froze to death.
Winnebago County detectives arrested Stockton for murder Aug. 5. They found her 1993 Saturn sedan in a South Beloit Police Department impound lot Aug. 11.
The cause of death of the infants may not be known for six weeks, Fiduccia said in a news release. The release also said no further comments would be made.
Crime lab results awaited
In the meantime, Winnebago County Sheriff Dick Meyers is hoping to hear back from the crime lab by the end of the week. Meyers is waiting for the results of Stockton’s DNA test and whether it’s a match for Baby Crystal. Stockton’s DNA also will be compared against the DNA of the bones found last week.
Crystal is the name law enforcement officials gave the baby they found nearly five years ago abandoned in the snow.
Stockton is in the Winnebago County Jail on $1 million bond.
Few details provided
Last week, Fiduccia said some initial information — such as how many bones were found and whether the babies suffered any trauma before their deaths — could be determined during or shortly after the preliminary exam. The news release makes no mention of these items.
Stockton, who has not been charged in the deaths of the two other infants, is due back in court Sept. 3.
Forensic expert help
Dr. Mark Peters is one of two forensic experts who examined the skeletons of two babies discovered in the trunk of Katie L. Stockton’s car last week.
Peters is a forensic pathologist who has performed autopsies for Winnebago County for several years, Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia said. He is one of six specialists who is on call to perform such examinations for the Winnebago County coroner’s office.
Peters is a medical doctor, Fiduccia said, with additional schooling in pathology and forensics.
He has performed autopsies and determined cause of a death in a number of high-profile cases in Winnebago County.
Peters performed the autopsy of off-duty Rockford police officer Ed Ritter in 2005. In that case, Peters testified at trial that Ritter, who was in a fight outside a Roscoe bar and fell backward, hitting his head on pavement, suffered fractures to the front and the back of his skull, which caused his death.
Peters also testified at the trial of George Hansen, the man convicted of killing business partner MaryAnn Clibbery in December 2004. At trial, Peters said Clibbery was hit three to five times in the head with a blunt object and died four or five hours before her body was found.
Also in December 2004, Peters conducted the autopsy on Baby Crystal, the child Stockton is accused of giving birth to and leaving in a garbage bag by the side of the road.
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Grand jury finds probable cause in Baby Crystal case
Posted Aug 21, 2009 @ 07:21 PM
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A Winnebago County grand jury has found probable cause in the murder case against Katie L. Stockton, the rural Rockton woman charged with killing her newborn in December 2004.
Prosecutors from the Winnebago County State’s Attorney office took the case before the grand jury Wednesday, presenting information and evidence relevant to the charges to the jurors. Grand jury proceedings are closed to the public.
“The return of the indictment means the grand jury believes there is probable cause to believe that the person charged has committed the crime,” said Winnebago County State’s Attorney Joe Bruscato.
By state law, prosecutors have 30 days after someone’s arrest to get an indictment against them if the person is in jail. It’s 60 days if the defendant is not in custody.
The grand jury is a panel of 16 Winnebago County residents who serve six-month terms. At lease nine grand jury members need to believe that probable cause exists for the case to proceed.
Stockton, 28, is charged with the 2004 killing of her newborn daughter, whom law enforcement officials named Crystal. Prosecutors say Stockton left the girl on the side of a country road near her parents’ house and the baby froze to death.
Winnebago County Sheriff’s detectives arrested Stockton for murder Aug. 5 after new information linked Stockton to the crime. Winnebago County Sheriff Dick Meyers has not disclosed what that new information is, nor would he confirm or deny whether police have DNA evidence linking Stockton to the baby.
Also last week, detectives discovered the skeletons of two other babies in the trunk of Stockton’s car, a 1993 Saturn sedan that was impounded by the South Beloit Police
Department in August 2008. Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the deaths of the two other babies and any role Stockton may have had.
The sheriff’s department obtained a sample of Stockton’s DNA shortly after her arrest, Meyers said.
Earlier this week, Meyers said he was hoping to hear back from the crime lab by today. Meyers and Bruscato said today they could not comment on whether they’ve received the lab results or whether Stockton’s DNA is a match with that of baby Crystal.
Stockton is in the Winnebago County Jail on $1 million bond. She is due to appear before Judge Joe McGraw for arraignment Sept. 3. On Aug. 13, Stockton’s attorney requested the case be transferred to another judge.
The grave marker for Baby Crystal at Calvary Catholic Cemetery is pictured in December 2007.
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Posted Aug 21, 2009 @ 07:21 PM
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A Winnebago County grand jury has found probable cause in the murder case against Katie L. Stockton, the rural Rockton woman charged with killing her newborn in December 2004.
Prosecutors from the Winnebago County State’s Attorney office took the case before the grand jury Wednesday, presenting information and evidence relevant to the charges to the jurors. Grand jury proceedings are closed to the public.
“The return of the indictment means the grand jury believes there is probable cause to believe that the person charged has committed the crime,” said Winnebago County State’s Attorney Joe Bruscato.
By state law, prosecutors have 30 days after someone’s arrest to get an indictment against them if the person is in jail. It’s 60 days if the defendant is not in custody.
The grand jury is a panel of 16 Winnebago County residents who serve six-month terms. At lease nine grand jury members need to believe that probable cause exists for the case to proceed.
Stockton, 28, is charged with the 2004 killing of her newborn daughter, whom law enforcement officials named Crystal. Prosecutors say Stockton left the girl on the side of a country road near her parents’ house and the baby froze to death.
Winnebago County Sheriff’s detectives arrested Stockton for murder Aug. 5 after new information linked Stockton to the crime. Winnebago County Sheriff Dick Meyers has not disclosed what that new information is, nor would he confirm or deny whether police have DNA evidence linking Stockton to the baby.
Also last week, detectives discovered the skeletons of two other babies in the trunk of Stockton’s car, a 1993 Saturn sedan that was impounded by the South Beloit Police
Department in August 2008. Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the deaths of the two other babies and any role Stockton may have had.
The sheriff’s department obtained a sample of Stockton’s DNA shortly after her arrest, Meyers said.
Earlier this week, Meyers said he was hoping to hear back from the crime lab by today. Meyers and Bruscato said today they could not comment on whether they’ve received the lab results or whether Stockton’s DNA is a match with that of baby Crystal.
Stockton is in the Winnebago County Jail on $1 million bond. She is due to appear before Judge Joe McGraw for arraignment Sept. 3. On Aug. 13, Stockton’s attorney requested the case be transferred to another judge.
The grave marker for Baby Crystal at Calvary Catholic Cemetery is pictured in December 2007.
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Special report: Mom arrested in 'Baby Crystal' case
Posted Aug 07, 2009 @ 09:58 AM
Last update Aug 21, 2009 @ 07:25 PM
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Katie Stockton, 28, of rural Rockton, was arrested Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009, on charges that she left her newborn girl to die on the side of the road in December 2004 near her parents’ Will Road home.
The skeletal remains of two additional infants later were found in Stockton's vehicle.
Police discovered the first baby’s body when a 13-year-old girl called to tell them the family dog brought a bloody piece of clothing back to the home after being outside. Police identified that girl this week as Stockton’s sister.
Law-enforcement officials gave the baby the name “Crystal” because the sky above them was crystal clear that night as they searched the area for clues.
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Posted Aug 07, 2009 @ 09:58 AM
Last update Aug 21, 2009 @ 07:25 PM
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Katie Stockton, 28, of rural Rockton, was arrested Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009, on charges that she left her newborn girl to die on the side of the road in December 2004 near her parents’ Will Road home.
The skeletal remains of two additional infants later were found in Stockton's vehicle.
Police discovered the first baby’s body when a 13-year-old girl called to tell them the family dog brought a bloody piece of clothing back to the home after being outside. Police identified that girl this week as Stockton’s sister.
Law-enforcement officials gave the baby the name “Crystal” because the sky above them was crystal clear that night as they searched the area for clues.
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Dec. 20, 2004: Autopsy: Abandoned baby girl born alive
Posted Dec 20, 2004 @ 10:59 AM
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The person responsible for dumping a baby girl found dead Friday in rural Rockton could face serious criminal charges if arrested.
An autopsy performed Sunday revealed that the girl was full-term and born alive. She weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long.
The preliminary cause of death is exposure, and more tests are being performed. There were no signs of trauma to the baby's body.
A teenage girl found the baby Friday afternoon. She let her dog out at 4 p.m., and the animal returned with a strange piece of cloth in its mouth.
The baby was discovered in a white garbage bag on the east side of Will Road, about a mile north of Yale Bridge Road.
Authorities with the Winnebago County coroner's office and the Sheriff's Department have named the baby Crystal. Sheriff Dick Meyers said the name was chosen because authorities noted the night sky was "crystal clear" when she was found.
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Posted Dec 20, 2004 @ 10:59 AM
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The person responsible for dumping a baby girl found dead Friday in rural Rockton could face serious criminal charges if arrested.
An autopsy performed Sunday revealed that the girl was full-term and born alive. She weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long.
The preliminary cause of death is exposure, and more tests are being performed. There were no signs of trauma to the baby's body.
A teenage girl found the baby Friday afternoon. She let her dog out at 4 p.m., and the animal returned with a strange piece of cloth in its mouth.
The baby was discovered in a white garbage bag on the east side of Will Road, about a mile north of Yale Bridge Road.
Authorities with the Winnebago County coroner's office and the Sheriff's Department have named the baby Crystal. Sheriff Dick Meyers said the name was chosen because authorities noted the night sky was "crystal clear" when she was found.
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Dec. 21, 2004: Residents rally for girl's burial
Officials are stumped about why the birth mom didn't leave the baby at a designated haven.
Posted Dec 21, 2004 @ 10:59 AM
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A newborn girl with blue eyes and black curly hair who was left to freeze to death on a country road last week will be laid to rest today at Calvary Cemetery.
Police continue to search for the birth mother and any clues that will help them determine how the baby ended up naked and abandoned in a white garbage bag along Will Road in northwest Winnebago County. Police found the baby Friday, when temperatures dipped to 9 degrees.
"Did she suffer? Yeah, she suffered," Fiduccia said. "At this time of year, she could have died in a matter of hours."
Autopsy results indicate that the girl was born alive and healthy and died of exposure. Officials originally estimated the birth as Friday. After the autopsy Sunday, they believe she was born a week to 10 days ago.
"I would love if they could find this person responsible," she said. "We need to ask them what it was that made them do this, and what would have changed their mind."
Fiduccia, who bought Baby Crystal a white and pink sweater outfit and pink blanket Saturday, wondered the same thing. She often includes information about the abandoned-baby law in her frequent lectures to civic groups and high schools.
"Where did we miss in not getting this message out?" she said. "You almost hope that it was someone not from this area."
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Officials are stumped about why the birth mom didn't leave the baby at a designated haven.
Posted Dec 21, 2004 @ 10:59 AM
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A newborn girl with blue eyes and black curly hair who was left to freeze to death on a country road last week will be laid to rest today at Calvary Cemetery.
Police continue to search for the birth mother and any clues that will help them determine how the baby ended up naked and abandoned in a white garbage bag along Will Road in northwest Winnebago County. Police found the baby Friday, when temperatures dipped to 9 degrees.
"Did she suffer? Yeah, she suffered," Fiduccia said. "At this time of year, she could have died in a matter of hours."
Autopsy results indicate that the girl was born alive and healthy and died of exposure. Officials originally estimated the birth as Friday. After the autopsy Sunday, they believe she was born a week to 10 days ago.
"I would love if they could find this person responsible," she said. "We need to ask them what it was that made them do this, and what would have changed their mind."
Fiduccia, who bought Baby Crystal a white and pink sweater outfit and pink blanket Saturday, wondered the same thing. She often includes information about the abandoned-baby law in her frequent lectures to civic groups and high schools.
"Where did we miss in not getting this message out?" she said. "You almost hope that it was someone not from this area."
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Dec. 22, 2004: 70 teary mourners say goodbye to Crystal
Officials, residents, citizens pay respects to abandoned baby girl.
Posted Dec 22, 2004 @ 11:41 AM
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They came from all walks of life Tuesday morning, from the Rockford area and beyond, to say goodbye to Baby Crystal, the newborn girl whom police found frozen to death Friday night.
The teary-eyed mass of about 70 people gathered, shoulder-to-shoulder in the mausoleum of Calvary Cemetery, for a service put together by the Winnebago County coroner and sheriff departments to pay tribute to a child who never got a chance.
"She certainly left this Earth in a lot more respectful way than she entered it," said Winnebago County Sheriff Dick Meyers.
The service was attended by coroner and sheriff department employees, residents from the Will Road area where Crystal was found last Friday, concerned citizens and parents and mothers who lost children through tragedies, from miscarriages to illness. They brought flowers, from funeral sprays to single roses, stuffed animals and prayers.
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Sheriff: Residents not suspects
On Tuesday, five days after police found Baby Crystal, Winnebago County Sheriff Dick Meyers provided the following new information about the investigation:
* Police have no reason to suspect that any of the people they've interviewed on Will Road have anything to do with the baby's abandonment. The families are being cooperative.
* Police believe the baby was abandoned on Will Road shortly after her birth and was outside for seven to 10 days before discovery. Police suspect that the person who left the baby on the roadside was familiar with Will Road or Winnebago County in some way.
* A young boy, who lives in the same house as the 13-year-old girl who found the baby, told police that he saw a piece of women's clothing in the yard on his way to school Friday. The girl found the baby and women's clothing strewn about the edge of her family's property at about 4 p.m. Friday.
* Police have yet to determine where the clothing and the baby were left. The items were found in a grassy area on the east side the road not far from a house. It is unknown if they were left there or dragged there by animals, possibly by a family dog that alerted the 13-year-old that something was in the yard by bringing home a piece of bloody clothing.
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Jan. 8, 2005: Driver sought for Q&A on baby
Posted Jan 08, 2005 @ 11:41 AM
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Winnebago County authorities are searching for a young woman who reportedly was driving a red compact car in rural Rockton the same day a dead newborn was discovered along Will Road.
Baby Crystal, as officials later named her, was discovered by a teenager on the afternoon of Dec. 17. The baby's body was frozen, and an autopsy determined that she died of exposure, although she was born full term with the placenta attached.
It's believed she was along the side of the road for a day.
About 70 people attended Crystal's funeral Dec. 21 at Calvary Cemetery. Clothing and the casket were donated.
The Winnebago County Sheriff's Department is trying to identify a young white female with black hair driving a red Grand Am, Chevrolet Cavalier or similar-sized vehicle in good condition.
The vehicle was seen in the area about the same time the baby was found. It may or not be involved with the incident, but detectives want to rule out any possible involvement.
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Feb. 11, 2005: Clues might help ID Baby Crystal's mom
Cocaine was in the infant's system, and the abandoned child tested positive for hepatitis B.
Posted Feb 11, 2005 @ 11:41 AM
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The infant, known as Baby Crystal, had cocaine in her system and tested positive for hepatitis B, a viral infection of the liver caused by sexual contact with an infected person or by the use of contaminated needles and instruments.
"This means that the mother was using cocaine at the time of the birth, and she is also positive for hepatitis B," Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia said.
Crystal's death, however, was caused by hypothermia because of abandonment in a cold environment. Toxicology tests and final autopsy results were released Wednesday at a coroner's inquest.
Initial autopsy results revealed Crystal was born alive and full-term, weighing 7 pounds, 3 ounces and measuring 19 1/2 inches.
Newborn protection
For more information, a 24-hour hot line has been established at SwedishAmerican Hospital. Call 815-968-2500, or visit the Save Abandoned Babies Foundation Web site, www.saveabandonedbabies.org.
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Dec. 4, 2005: New clues few 1 year after baby discarded
Posted Dec 04, 2005 @ 10:59 AM
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A small, framed photograph of an infant hangs in Coroner Sue Fiduccia’s office.
Fiduccia’s office reflects her decade in the hectic job: The couch has long been given over to stacks of files. Various knickknacks and momentos line her shelves and desk. Some artwork is on her wall.
Yet the only photo is of this infant, who looks to be peacefully sleeping in a bassinet. The girl is not a relative, and she belongs to family Fiduccia does not know.
“People will come in and ask me who it’s a picture of. When I tell them it’s Crystal Doe, they remember ... . They remember what happened.”
“We still have some technology through things like DNA that might turn something up,” Chief Deputy Kurt Ditzler said. “Aside from that, we need someone to contact us with some information. ... Even the most insignificant thing, even if it doesn’t seem to mean anything, can make a difference.”
Crystal was the 15th abandoned newborn found dead in Illinois since the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act was made law Aug. 26, 2001, said Dawn Geras, president of Save Abandoned Babies Foundation of Illinois. Five other newborns have been found dead in the past year.
Fiduccia remembers the day Crystal was found. She remembers what she calls “big burly men” of the sheriff’s and fire departments in tears.
The picture in her office hangs under a shelf on which the coroner has placed two angel figurines. It’s a tiny shrine in a government office to a little girl who never had a chance yet touched so many.
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‘Somebody knows’ what happened to Baby Crystal
Posted Dec 27, 2007 @ 07:56 PM
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In Sue Fiduccia’s 35 years of service in the Winnebago County coroner’s office, she estimates she has performed more than 400 autopsies on homicide victims alone.
But one in particular stands out in her mind.
So much so she still displays a picture of the victim, at rest in a miniature casket. The 5-inch by 7-inch framed photograph of Baby Crystal, who looks likes she’s sleeping, hangs in Fiduccia’s downtown office.
This month marks the three-year anniversary of the discovery of the 7-pound, 3-ounce newborn, found frozen to death inside a white plastic garbage bag that had been discarded along a lonely stretch of road in Shirland Township.
“Because I don’t want anybody to forget about Baby Crystal,” she said. “She was a beautiful little girl, and her mother threw her away like a piece of trash.”
Few leads
The death of Baby Crystal may prove to be the Sheriff’s Department’s toughest case to solve yet.
There are no known family members or friends to interview.
“I remember,” Meyers said. “It was colder than hell that day. I remember the bag on the side of the road, and there was this little hand reaching out to you. It just made you want to pick that little baby up and hug it to make it warm.”
The only physical evidence is the mother’s bloodstained clothing, wrapped around the nude infant before she was placed in the bag.
Deputy Chief Dominic Iasparro said the one piece of evidence that can positively link the black-haired baby to her mother is DNA.
‘Somebody knows’
While the leads have grown cold, Meyers and Iasparro are convinced they are a phone call away from finding Baby Crystal’s mother and bringing closure to her death. They doubt a woman who had just given birth hours earlier could drive — let alone walk — to a rural road in harsh weather to discard the infant without help — or someone seeing her.
The plight of Baby Crystal left an impression on the hearts of many in the community.
Fitzgerald Funeral Home donated its services, and Calvary Catholic Cemetery on West State Street donated a plot in Babyland.
“Everything in the casket (blankets, stuffed animals and a rosary) was donated by people in the community,” said Fiduccia, who visits Crystal’s grave each year. “We had to get a bigger casket to hold it all. This was the only things she had, so we buried everything with her.”
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Officials, residents, citizens pay respects to abandoned baby girl.
Posted Dec 22, 2004 @ 11:41 AM
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They came from all walks of life Tuesday morning, from the Rockford area and beyond, to say goodbye to Baby Crystal, the newborn girl whom police found frozen to death Friday night.
The teary-eyed mass of about 70 people gathered, shoulder-to-shoulder in the mausoleum of Calvary Cemetery, for a service put together by the Winnebago County coroner and sheriff departments to pay tribute to a child who never got a chance.
"She certainly left this Earth in a lot more respectful way than she entered it," said Winnebago County Sheriff Dick Meyers.
The service was attended by coroner and sheriff department employees, residents from the Will Road area where Crystal was found last Friday, concerned citizens and parents and mothers who lost children through tragedies, from miscarriages to illness. They brought flowers, from funeral sprays to single roses, stuffed animals and prayers.
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Sheriff: Residents not suspects
On Tuesday, five days after police found Baby Crystal, Winnebago County Sheriff Dick Meyers provided the following new information about the investigation:
* Police have no reason to suspect that any of the people they've interviewed on Will Road have anything to do with the baby's abandonment. The families are being cooperative.
* Police believe the baby was abandoned on Will Road shortly after her birth and was outside for seven to 10 days before discovery. Police suspect that the person who left the baby on the roadside was familiar with Will Road or Winnebago County in some way.
* A young boy, who lives in the same house as the 13-year-old girl who found the baby, told police that he saw a piece of women's clothing in the yard on his way to school Friday. The girl found the baby and women's clothing strewn about the edge of her family's property at about 4 p.m. Friday.
* Police have yet to determine where the clothing and the baby were left. The items were found in a grassy area on the east side the road not far from a house. It is unknown if they were left there or dragged there by animals, possibly by a family dog that alerted the 13-year-old that something was in the yard by bringing home a piece of bloody clothing.
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Jan. 8, 2005: Driver sought for Q&A on baby
Posted Jan 08, 2005 @ 11:41 AM
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Winnebago County authorities are searching for a young woman who reportedly was driving a red compact car in rural Rockton the same day a dead newborn was discovered along Will Road.
Baby Crystal, as officials later named her, was discovered by a teenager on the afternoon of Dec. 17. The baby's body was frozen, and an autopsy determined that she died of exposure, although she was born full term with the placenta attached.
It's believed she was along the side of the road for a day.
About 70 people attended Crystal's funeral Dec. 21 at Calvary Cemetery. Clothing and the casket were donated.
The Winnebago County Sheriff's Department is trying to identify a young white female with black hair driving a red Grand Am, Chevrolet Cavalier or similar-sized vehicle in good condition.
The vehicle was seen in the area about the same time the baby was found. It may or not be involved with the incident, but detectives want to rule out any possible involvement.
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Feb. 11, 2005: Clues might help ID Baby Crystal's mom
Cocaine was in the infant's system, and the abandoned child tested positive for hepatitis B.
Posted Feb 11, 2005 @ 11:41 AM
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The infant, known as Baby Crystal, had cocaine in her system and tested positive for hepatitis B, a viral infection of the liver caused by sexual contact with an infected person or by the use of contaminated needles and instruments.
"This means that the mother was using cocaine at the time of the birth, and she is also positive for hepatitis B," Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia said.
Crystal's death, however, was caused by hypothermia because of abandonment in a cold environment. Toxicology tests and final autopsy results were released Wednesday at a coroner's inquest.
Initial autopsy results revealed Crystal was born alive and full-term, weighing 7 pounds, 3 ounces and measuring 19 1/2 inches.
Newborn protection
For more information, a 24-hour hot line has been established at SwedishAmerican Hospital. Call 815-968-2500, or visit the Save Abandoned Babies Foundation Web site, www.saveabandonedbabies.org.
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Dec. 4, 2005: New clues few 1 year after baby discarded
Posted Dec 04, 2005 @ 10:59 AM
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A small, framed photograph of an infant hangs in Coroner Sue Fiduccia’s office.
Fiduccia’s office reflects her decade in the hectic job: The couch has long been given over to stacks of files. Various knickknacks and momentos line her shelves and desk. Some artwork is on her wall.
Yet the only photo is of this infant, who looks to be peacefully sleeping in a bassinet. The girl is not a relative, and she belongs to family Fiduccia does not know.
“People will come in and ask me who it’s a picture of. When I tell them it’s Crystal Doe, they remember ... . They remember what happened.”
“We still have some technology through things like DNA that might turn something up,” Chief Deputy Kurt Ditzler said. “Aside from that, we need someone to contact us with some information. ... Even the most insignificant thing, even if it doesn’t seem to mean anything, can make a difference.”
Crystal was the 15th abandoned newborn found dead in Illinois since the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act was made law Aug. 26, 2001, said Dawn Geras, president of Save Abandoned Babies Foundation of Illinois. Five other newborns have been found dead in the past year.
Fiduccia remembers the day Crystal was found. She remembers what she calls “big burly men” of the sheriff’s and fire departments in tears.
The picture in her office hangs under a shelf on which the coroner has placed two angel figurines. It’s a tiny shrine in a government office to a little girl who never had a chance yet touched so many.
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‘Somebody knows’ what happened to Baby Crystal
Posted Dec 27, 2007 @ 07:56 PM
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In Sue Fiduccia’s 35 years of service in the Winnebago County coroner’s office, she estimates she has performed more than 400 autopsies on homicide victims alone.
But one in particular stands out in her mind.
So much so she still displays a picture of the victim, at rest in a miniature casket. The 5-inch by 7-inch framed photograph of Baby Crystal, who looks likes she’s sleeping, hangs in Fiduccia’s downtown office.
This month marks the three-year anniversary of the discovery of the 7-pound, 3-ounce newborn, found frozen to death inside a white plastic garbage bag that had been discarded along a lonely stretch of road in Shirland Township.
“Because I don’t want anybody to forget about Baby Crystal,” she said. “She was a beautiful little girl, and her mother threw her away like a piece of trash.”
Few leads
The death of Baby Crystal may prove to be the Sheriff’s Department’s toughest case to solve yet.
There are no known family members or friends to interview.
“I remember,” Meyers said. “It was colder than hell that day. I remember the bag on the side of the road, and there was this little hand reaching out to you. It just made you want to pick that little baby up and hug it to make it warm.”
The only physical evidence is the mother’s bloodstained clothing, wrapped around the nude infant before she was placed in the bag.
Deputy Chief Dominic Iasparro said the one piece of evidence that can positively link the black-haired baby to her mother is DNA.
‘Somebody knows’
While the leads have grown cold, Meyers and Iasparro are convinced they are a phone call away from finding Baby Crystal’s mother and bringing closure to her death. They doubt a woman who had just given birth hours earlier could drive — let alone walk — to a rural road in harsh weather to discard the infant without help — or someone seeing her.
The plight of Baby Crystal left an impression on the hearts of many in the community.
Fitzgerald Funeral Home donated its services, and Calvary Catholic Cemetery on West State Street donated a plot in Babyland.
“Everything in the casket (blankets, stuffed animals and a rosary) was donated by people in the community,” said Fiduccia, who visits Crystal’s grave each year. “We had to get a bigger casket to hold it all. This was the only things she had, so we buried everything with her.”
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Police help arrest Illinois fugitive accused of killing baby
Posted on Thu, Aug. 06, 2009 11:27 PM
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Kansas City police helped arrest a fugitive accused of killing her baby by leaving it in a trash bag to freeze along a rural Illinois road in December 2004.
A police squad recently reopened the case and focused on Katie L. Stockton, 28, who fled her home Sunday night.
Illinois investigators worked with Kansas City’s FBI fugitive task force to track Stockton to an extended-stay hotel off Interstate 35. Stockton checked in under a fake name and paid cash, authorities said.
When police knocked on her door Wednesday, Stockton appeared surprised to see law enforcement officers, said Kansas City Detective John Cooley, a task force member.
Authorities booked Stockton into the Wyandotte County jail, where Winnebago County investigators interviewed her. On Thursday, Stockton waived extradition, and investigators drove her back to Illinois.
Police said DNA linked Stockton to the infant, who was found in 9-degree weather in a ditch in the yard of Stockton’s parents.
Authorities said they questioned Stockton several times.
Over the years, authorities ran out of leads. In recent months, authorities struggled to get a DNA sample from Stockton to test against the baby’s. Stockton resisted, but investigators eventually got the sample, police said.
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New clues lead to arrest of Baby Crystal’s mom
Winnebago County sheriff declines to identify the evidence against Katie Stockton, 28, of Rockton.
Posted Aug 06, 2009 @ 12:09 PM
Last update Aug 07, 2009 @ 09:17 PM
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Katie Stockton, 28, of rural Rockton was arrested Wednesday on charges that she left her newborn girl to die on the side of the road in December 2004 near her parents’ Will Road home.
Stockton lives with her parents on Will Road, Meyers said, but was living with a boyfriend in Rockford at the time of Crystal’s death. Stockton waived extradition proceedings in Kansas this afternoon and voluntarily returned to Rockford with Winnebago County detectives this evening to be lodged in the Winnebago County Jail.
Police previously spoke with Stockton about Crystal’s death, Meyers said, but they did not suspect her involvement until recent weeks when new information was learned. Meyers would not disclose the new information, nor would he confirm or deny whether police have DNA evidence linking Stockton to Baby Crystal.
But the Kansas City Star is reporting that Kansas City police, who worked with Winnebago County detectives to arrest Stockton, say DNA is the link.
According to documents filed as recently as June 26 in a 2008 forgery case, Stockton failed to submit to DNA testing as ordered by a judge, and the Winnebago County state’s attorney’s office was asking that she appear in court Monday to explain why she was refusing to give a DNA sample.
According to documents filed in the 2008 forgery case, Stockton is single and has a son. Her probation in that case was modified in October so she could visit family and shop in Wisconsin. Meyers said Stockton has a 9-year-old son who lives with his father in Janesville.
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TIMELINE
December 2004: Police find the discarded frozen body of a newborn girl.
January 2005: Police seek the driver of a red car that was spotted in the area when the baby was found.
February 2005: Authorities learn the baby had cocaine in her system and tested positive for hepatitis B.
August 2008: Katie L. Stockton is arrested in Winnebago County on felony charges of forgery.
September 2008: Stockton pleads guilty to forgery and is sentenced to 180 days in jail and two years of probation.
October 2008: Stockton fails to submit a blood, tissue or saliva specimen for DNA testing within 45 days of her plea as ordered by the court.
December 2008: Stockton refuses to submit to a DNA test as directed by the Winnebago County probation office.
June 2009: Stockton refuses to submit to a DNA test as directed by the Winnebago County probation office.
June 26: The Winnebago County State’s Attorney’s office files a petition to vacate Stockton’s probation based on her failure to submit to DNA testing, a requirement of her guilty plea.
July 13: Stockton appears in Winnebago County court on the petition to vacate. She denies the allegations. The case is set for Aug. 3.
Aug. 3: Stockton fails to appear in court and a warrant is issued for her arrest.
Aug. 4: Winnebago County State’s Attorney’s office charges Stockton with the December 2004 murder of her newborn.
Aug. 5: Police locate Stockton in Kansas City and arrest her.
Aug. 6: Stockton appears before a judge in Kansas City and waives extradition to Winnebago County.
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RESIDENTS RESPOND
Tamara Cornieux, owner of Rockton Inn, confirmed that Stockton was a part-time employee at the restaurant in downtown Rockton. “I think we are all shocked to find out. She seemed like a nice girl.”
Every summer, Janice Mockus and her husband live with the couple’s daughter at the corner of Will and Yale Bridge roads about a half-mile from where Baby Crystal was found. Mockus said she never knew Stockton, but she knew of Baby Crystal, and it’s about time an arrest was made.
“I’m surprised the family wasn’t aware that she was pregnant. It’s sad, because I can’t understand a mother doing that to her own baby.”
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Kansas City police helped arrest a fugitive accused of killing her baby by leaving it in a trash bag to freeze along a rural Illinois road in December 2004.
A police squad recently reopened the case and focused on Katie L. Stockton, 28, who fled her home Sunday night.
Illinois investigators worked with Kansas City’s FBI fugitive task force to track Stockton to an extended-stay hotel off Interstate 35. Stockton checked in under a fake name and paid cash, authorities said.
When police knocked on her door Wednesday, Stockton appeared surprised to see law enforcement officers, said Kansas City Detective John Cooley, a task force member.
Authorities booked Stockton into the Wyandotte County jail, where Winnebago County investigators interviewed her. On Thursday, Stockton waived extradition, and investigators drove her back to Illinois.
Police said DNA linked Stockton to the infant, who was found in 9-degree weather in a ditch in the yard of Stockton’s parents.
Authorities said they questioned Stockton several times.
Over the years, authorities ran out of leads. In recent months, authorities struggled to get a DNA sample from Stockton to test against the baby’s. Stockton resisted, but investigators eventually got the sample, police said.
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New clues lead to arrest of Baby Crystal’s mom
Winnebago County sheriff declines to identify the evidence against Katie Stockton, 28, of Rockton.
Posted Aug 06, 2009 @ 12:09 PM
Last update Aug 07, 2009 @ 09:17 PM
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Katie Stockton, 28, of rural Rockton was arrested Wednesday on charges that she left her newborn girl to die on the side of the road in December 2004 near her parents’ Will Road home.
Stockton lives with her parents on Will Road, Meyers said, but was living with a boyfriend in Rockford at the time of Crystal’s death. Stockton waived extradition proceedings in Kansas this afternoon and voluntarily returned to Rockford with Winnebago County detectives this evening to be lodged in the Winnebago County Jail.
Police previously spoke with Stockton about Crystal’s death, Meyers said, but they did not suspect her involvement until recent weeks when new information was learned. Meyers would not disclose the new information, nor would he confirm or deny whether police have DNA evidence linking Stockton to Baby Crystal.
But the Kansas City Star is reporting that Kansas City police, who worked with Winnebago County detectives to arrest Stockton, say DNA is the link.
According to documents filed as recently as June 26 in a 2008 forgery case, Stockton failed to submit to DNA testing as ordered by a judge, and the Winnebago County state’s attorney’s office was asking that she appear in court Monday to explain why she was refusing to give a DNA sample.
According to documents filed in the 2008 forgery case, Stockton is single and has a son. Her probation in that case was modified in October so she could visit family and shop in Wisconsin. Meyers said Stockton has a 9-year-old son who lives with his father in Janesville.
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TIMELINE
December 2004: Police find the discarded frozen body of a newborn girl.
January 2005: Police seek the driver of a red car that was spotted in the area when the baby was found.
February 2005: Authorities learn the baby had cocaine in her system and tested positive for hepatitis B.
August 2008: Katie L. Stockton is arrested in Winnebago County on felony charges of forgery.
September 2008: Stockton pleads guilty to forgery and is sentenced to 180 days in jail and two years of probation.
October 2008: Stockton fails to submit a blood, tissue or saliva specimen for DNA testing within 45 days of her plea as ordered by the court.
December 2008: Stockton refuses to submit to a DNA test as directed by the Winnebago County probation office.
June 2009: Stockton refuses to submit to a DNA test as directed by the Winnebago County probation office.
June 26: The Winnebago County State’s Attorney’s office files a petition to vacate Stockton’s probation based on her failure to submit to DNA testing, a requirement of her guilty plea.
July 13: Stockton appears in Winnebago County court on the petition to vacate. She denies the allegations. The case is set for Aug. 3.
Aug. 3: Stockton fails to appear in court and a warrant is issued for her arrest.
Aug. 4: Winnebago County State’s Attorney’s office charges Stockton with the December 2004 murder of her newborn.
Aug. 5: Police locate Stockton in Kansas City and arrest her.
Aug. 6: Stockton appears before a judge in Kansas City and waives extradition to Winnebago County.
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RESIDENTS RESPOND
Tamara Cornieux, owner of Rockton Inn, confirmed that Stockton was a part-time employee at the restaurant in downtown Rockton. “I think we are all shocked to find out. She seemed like a nice girl.”
Every summer, Janice Mockus and her husband live with the couple’s daughter at the corner of Will and Yale Bridge roads about a half-mile from where Baby Crystal was found. Mockus said she never knew Stockton, but she knew of Baby Crystal, and it’s about time an arrest was made.
“I’m surprised the family wasn’t aware that she was pregnant. It’s sad, because I can’t understand a mother doing that to her own baby.”
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Katie Stockton, 28, was arrested on murder charges Wednesday afternoon in Kansas City, Kan
The house at 15431 Will Road, outside of Rockton, where Katie Stocktons parents live. Stockton, 28, of rural Rockton was arrested on murder charges Wednesday afternoon in Kansas City, Kan.
Baby Crystal's grave in Calvary Cemetery near Winnebago is seen Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009.
The casket for baby Crystal had stuffed animals placed on top before the baby's funeral Dec. 21, 2004, in the Calvary Cemetery mausoleum in Winnebago.
Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia digs through the snow Dec. 20, 2007, to uncover the grave of Baby Crystal at Calvary Catholic Cemetery.
Dozens of mourners for baby Crystal gather Dec. 21, 2004, to say their goodbyes at Calvary Cemetery in Winnebago.
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The house at 15431 Will Road, outside of Rockton, where Katie Stocktons parents live. Stockton, 28, of rural Rockton was arrested on murder charges Wednesday afternoon in Kansas City, Kan.
Baby Crystal's grave in Calvary Cemetery near Winnebago is seen Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009.
The casket for baby Crystal had stuffed animals placed on top before the baby's funeral Dec. 21, 2004, in the Calvary Cemetery mausoleum in Winnebago.
Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia digs through the snow Dec. 20, 2007, to uncover the grave of Baby Crystal at Calvary Catholic Cemetery.
Dozens of mourners for baby Crystal gather Dec. 21, 2004, to say their goodbyes at Calvary Cemetery in Winnebago.
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Dozens of mourners for baby Crystal gather Dec. 21, 2004, to say their goodbyes at Calvary Cemetery in Winnebago.
A piece of crime scene tape blows in the wind Dec. 20, 2004. It points to the ditch where the body of baby Crystal was found along Will Road in northwest Winnebago County.
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Bond set at $1M in Baby Crystal case
The mother of a slain infant asks for a public defender.
Posted Aug 07, 2009 @ 09:49 AM
Last update Aug 08, 2009 @ 12:27 AM
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Katie Stockton, 28, wiped tears from her face as she sat in a video conference room in the Winnebago County Jail and spoke with Winnebago County Judge Gerald Grubb via live video feed.
Wearing a red, jail-issue jumpsuit, her long brown hair hanging past her shoulders, Stockton listened intently and gave short, succinct answers to the judge’s questions.
Bond for Stockton was already set at $1 million, meaning she would need to post $100,000 cash to be released pending trial.
Stockton told the judge she could not afford to hire her own attorney and asked if the same public defender who is representing her on other charges would be her attorney in the murder case. Grubb told her that the decision was up to the Winnebago County public defender’s office.
Grubb set a second court appearance on the murder charges for Sept. 3.
Winnebago County Sheriff Dick Meyers said new information was learned in recent weeks that linked Stockton to the baby but would not say what that information is. Police spoke to Stockton a handful of times in the past, Meyers said, because the baby was found in her parents’ yard, but Stockton wasn’t a suspect then.
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Some shocked by arrest of Baby Crystal's mother
Posted Aug 07, 2009 @ 10:19 PM
Last update Aug 08, 2009 @ 10:22 AM
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As news of Katie Stockton’s arrest Wednesday spread across the Rock River Valley, making its way to Stockton’s own Facebook site by midday Thursday, people who knew Stockton in high school and some who know her today were shocked to learn of the accusations.
But others who know Stockton said the news, while shocking, came as no surprise.
Detectives came to the building nearly five years ago, Zarate said, to speak with Stockton about Baby Crystal.
He said they asked her to come down to the station and take a test.
Zarate doubts Stockton ever went, even though she told him and his friends that she did.
“She just told us she went, and everything was fine,” he said. “She was secretive like that. I thought she was creepy. … I mean, it’s still a surprise to me that it was her baby. We didn’t know for sure, but people thought it.”
“People are saying that they would talk to her about the baby being abandoned and if it was her, and she would just laugh it off. Like, ‘No way,’ ” Gaasterland said. “When I saw the news, I got a knot in my stomach. I teared up and cried. I thought of that poor baby. … You hear stories like this growing up, but you never think it’s going to be someone you know, someone you spent years sitting next to in class. It’s very sad.
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Towing company said Baby Crystal’s mom’s car smelled ‘funny’
Posted Aug 13, 2009 @ 08:38 PM
Last update Aug 14, 2009 @ 06:42 AM
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Janet Sherer expressed disgust Thursday in learning that the bones of two babies were concealed in a vehicle her company towed a year ago and kept impounded.
The fact that the babies may belong to Katie Stockton, who was arrested and charged with murder last week in connection with the death of another child, made her “sick.”
The sad story of Baby Crystal and her mother turned bizarre Wednesday when the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department and state’s attorney’s office learned that a vehicle that belonged to Stockton was being kept in an Ace Towing vehicle storage lot at 127 Blackhawk Blvd. in South Beloit.
Winnebago County Sheriff’s deputies found the 1993 Saturn, inspected the trunk and made the gruesome discovery. The Sheriff’s Department took possession of the vehicle and is holding it an undisclosed location as evidence.
“She called once and wanted to make a deal with my husband. He went down to the impound and waited and waited, but she never showed up.”
South Beloit police came into possession of the vehicle on Aug. 15, 2008. Winnebago County Court records showed officer Dan Kutz pulled Stockton over at 3:31 p.m. in the 400 block of Gardner Street and arrested her on charges of driving on a suspended license and registration.
Fearn said only clothing and miscellaneous items were taken from the vehicle at the time. He said the trunk and glove compartment were not checked, which is normal for the charges she faced.
“You have no reason to do that,” Fearn said. “At that time she wasn’t even a suspect (in Baby Crystal’s death). She wasn’t even flying on the radar.”
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Bones of two infants found in car of Baby Crystal's mom
Posted Aug 13, 2009 @ 12:16 PM
Last update Aug 14, 2009 @ 09:59 AM
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Police discovered the skeletons of two babies in the trunk of a car belonging to a woman who was charged last week with killing her newborn daughter in December 2004.
Fiduccia said two bags were found in Stockton’s car Aug. 12 after police went looking for a blue 1993 Saturn registered with the state in Stockton’s name and found it South Beloit. Each bag contained the remains of an infant of unknown age and sex.
Fiduccia said it’s difficult to tell how long the bones have been in the car. A forensic examination is scheduled for Aug. 18. The results of the examination should shed light on the sex of the babies, their age, whether they suffered any trauma and whether they were born alive or stillborn. Samples for DNA testing also will be collected and sent to the state crime lab.
Sheriff’s detectives found Stockton’s car in a South Beloit Police Department impound lot. The car had been there since Aug. 15, 2008. The car was not being held by a Police Department in connection to an ongoing investigation, Meyers said. He said he can’t speculate as to why Stockton did not retrieve her car.
Meyers said detectives went looking for the vehicle as part of the murder investigation involving Stockton and the baby girl called Baby Crystal discovered dead in December 2004.
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The mother of a slain infant asks for a public defender.
Posted Aug 07, 2009 @ 09:49 AM
Last update Aug 08, 2009 @ 12:27 AM
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Katie Stockton, 28, wiped tears from her face as she sat in a video conference room in the Winnebago County Jail and spoke with Winnebago County Judge Gerald Grubb via live video feed.
Wearing a red, jail-issue jumpsuit, her long brown hair hanging past her shoulders, Stockton listened intently and gave short, succinct answers to the judge’s questions.
Bond for Stockton was already set at $1 million, meaning she would need to post $100,000 cash to be released pending trial.
Stockton told the judge she could not afford to hire her own attorney and asked if the same public defender who is representing her on other charges would be her attorney in the murder case. Grubb told her that the decision was up to the Winnebago County public defender’s office.
Grubb set a second court appearance on the murder charges for Sept. 3.
Winnebago County Sheriff Dick Meyers said new information was learned in recent weeks that linked Stockton to the baby but would not say what that information is. Police spoke to Stockton a handful of times in the past, Meyers said, because the baby was found in her parents’ yard, but Stockton wasn’t a suspect then.
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Some shocked by arrest of Baby Crystal's mother
Posted Aug 07, 2009 @ 10:19 PM
Last update Aug 08, 2009 @ 10:22 AM
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As news of Katie Stockton’s arrest Wednesday spread across the Rock River Valley, making its way to Stockton’s own Facebook site by midday Thursday, people who knew Stockton in high school and some who know her today were shocked to learn of the accusations.
But others who know Stockton said the news, while shocking, came as no surprise.
Detectives came to the building nearly five years ago, Zarate said, to speak with Stockton about Baby Crystal.
He said they asked her to come down to the station and take a test.
Zarate doubts Stockton ever went, even though she told him and his friends that she did.
“She just told us she went, and everything was fine,” he said. “She was secretive like that. I thought she was creepy. … I mean, it’s still a surprise to me that it was her baby. We didn’t know for sure, but people thought it.”
“People are saying that they would talk to her about the baby being abandoned and if it was her, and she would just laugh it off. Like, ‘No way,’ ” Gaasterland said. “When I saw the news, I got a knot in my stomach. I teared up and cried. I thought of that poor baby. … You hear stories like this growing up, but you never think it’s going to be someone you know, someone you spent years sitting next to in class. It’s very sad.
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Towing company said Baby Crystal’s mom’s car smelled ‘funny’
Posted Aug 13, 2009 @ 08:38 PM
Last update Aug 14, 2009 @ 06:42 AM
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Janet Sherer expressed disgust Thursday in learning that the bones of two babies were concealed in a vehicle her company towed a year ago and kept impounded.
The fact that the babies may belong to Katie Stockton, who was arrested and charged with murder last week in connection with the death of another child, made her “sick.”
The sad story of Baby Crystal and her mother turned bizarre Wednesday when the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department and state’s attorney’s office learned that a vehicle that belonged to Stockton was being kept in an Ace Towing vehicle storage lot at 127 Blackhawk Blvd. in South Beloit.
Winnebago County Sheriff’s deputies found the 1993 Saturn, inspected the trunk and made the gruesome discovery. The Sheriff’s Department took possession of the vehicle and is holding it an undisclosed location as evidence.
“She called once and wanted to make a deal with my husband. He went down to the impound and waited and waited, but she never showed up.”
South Beloit police came into possession of the vehicle on Aug. 15, 2008. Winnebago County Court records showed officer Dan Kutz pulled Stockton over at 3:31 p.m. in the 400 block of Gardner Street and arrested her on charges of driving on a suspended license and registration.
Fearn said only clothing and miscellaneous items were taken from the vehicle at the time. He said the trunk and glove compartment were not checked, which is normal for the charges she faced.
“You have no reason to do that,” Fearn said. “At that time she wasn’t even a suspect (in Baby Crystal’s death). She wasn’t even flying on the radar.”
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Bones of two infants found in car of Baby Crystal's mom
Posted Aug 13, 2009 @ 12:16 PM
Last update Aug 14, 2009 @ 09:59 AM
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Police discovered the skeletons of two babies in the trunk of a car belonging to a woman who was charged last week with killing her newborn daughter in December 2004.
Fiduccia said two bags were found in Stockton’s car Aug. 12 after police went looking for a blue 1993 Saturn registered with the state in Stockton’s name and found it South Beloit. Each bag contained the remains of an infant of unknown age and sex.
Fiduccia said it’s difficult to tell how long the bones have been in the car. A forensic examination is scheduled for Aug. 18. The results of the examination should shed light on the sex of the babies, their age, whether they suffered any trauma and whether they were born alive or stillborn. Samples for DNA testing also will be collected and sent to the state crime lab.
Sheriff’s detectives found Stockton’s car in a South Beloit Police Department impound lot. The car had been there since Aug. 15, 2008. The car was not being held by a Police Department in connection to an ongoing investigation, Meyers said. He said he can’t speculate as to why Stockton did not retrieve her car.
Meyers said detectives went looking for the vehicle as part of the murder investigation involving Stockton and the baby girl called Baby Crystal discovered dead in December 2004.
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Discovery in Baby Crystal case ‘worse’ than tipster thought
Posted Aug 13, 2009 @ 11:52 PM
Last update Aug 14, 2009 @ 06:31 AM
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Melvin Zarate doesn’t remember the exact date, but he borrowed Katie L. Stockton’s car a few years ago to run an errand.
It was filthy, Zarate said, filled with garbage and clothing.
It’s the same car police searched Wednesday, finding the skeletons of two infants in separate bags in the trunk.
“I’m surprised,” Zarate said. “Just when you think the worst, it’s worse than I thought.”
The “worst” is last week’s murder charges against Stockton stemming from the December 2004 death of a baby girl, found frozen to death in Stockton’s parents’ yard in rural Rockton. The “worse” is the discovery of the bones of two other babies in Stockton’s car.
Investigators have no idea how long the bodies have been in the trunk.
Zarate, who met Stockton through a mutual friend in 2002, said he spoke with police Tuesday and told them about her car.
“I told them what it was like and that they should go through it,” he said. “I was thinking if she had the baby in the car, they could find evidence in there because she never cleaned it. I thought they’d find evidence about Baby Crystal. Instead, they find two more babies. It’s crazy.”
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Life of Baby Crystal's mom a mystery
Posted Aug 14, 2009 @ 10:39 PM
Last update Aug 15, 2009 @ 03:47 PM
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Last week, Katie Stockton was with her mother shopping for back-to-school clothes for her 9-year-old son at Wal-Mart.
Today, she’s locked in a cell in the Winnebago County Jail on a $1 million bond accused of leaving her newborn daughter to die on the side of the road in the middle of winter.
Meanwhile, county investigators have begun the task of searching for clues after the grisly discovery of two more dead infants found this week in the trunk of a car that Stockton owned.
And, it seems, everyone is trying to keep their distance from a young woman who smirked at the camera when she was arrested Aug. 5 for the death of Baby Crystal.
Stockton’s father, Steve, didn’t want to say anything about his daughter Friday when reached by phone. Neither did the man who was playing guitar in the backyard of the rural Rockton home, which was Stockton’s last known address and the home of her mother, Lisa Landsee, and Stockton’s stepfather.
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S. Beloit officials want car handling investigated
Posted Aug 14, 2009 @ 12:51 PM
Last update Aug 14, 2009 @ 11:48 PM
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A city commissioner is calling for an investigation into the South Beloit Police Department’s handling of an impounded car that contained the bodies of two dead babies, and the mayor says he wants some answers, too.
Commissioner Pam Clifton and Mayor Randy Kirichkow want city officials prepared to talk about what the city Police Department did when it impounded the car and if the proper protocol was followed, including an inventory of the car’s contents, and how police didn’t notice any signs of the decaying corpses in the trunk.
The Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department went Tuesday to South Beloit to track down a car belonging to Katie L. Stockton, a 28-year-old rural Rockton woman. Stockton was charged Aug. 5 with the murder of her newborn daughter. County detectives learned of the car through state registration records and traced the car, a 1993 Saturn sedan, to a South Beloit police impound lot, where it had been since Aug. 15, 2008. On Wednesday, as detectives searched the car for blood, hair and fiber evidence for the murder investigation, they discovered the skeletons of two other infants in the car’s trunk.
Meyers said he applauds South Beloit police for doing a routine traffic stop the afternoon of Aug. 15, 2008.
“I’m tickled to death that they ran her plates, saw the car was not registered, ran her license and saw she was unlicensed and impounded her car,” Meyers said. “What they did that day was routine stuff, nothing special, but they did what they should have done. They arrested her and took her to jail.”
“We’ll never know if the two bodies found in her car would have been found if that traffic stop wasn’t done,” Meyers said. “We may have never found those kids.”
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Coming DNA results: Savior or hard evidence in Baby Crystal case?
Posted Aug 15, 2009 @ 10:28 PM
Last update Aug 16, 2009 @ 07:43 PM
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Saliva on a Q-tip.
That may very well be the linchpin that seals the fate of a woman linking her to the deaths of up to three abandoned babies or clears her name and sends investigators back to square one.
Winnebago County sheriff’s detectives and the state’s attorney’s office are anxiously awaiting DNA results of a buccal swab, a swipe inside the cheek with a cotton tip applicator, taken from Katie L. Stockton.
The 28-year-old from rural Rockton was arrested Aug. 5 in Kansas City, Kan., in connection with the death of Baby Crystal, the infant born alive but left to die in the cold in December 2004 in a discarded garbage bag near the home of Stockton’s parents.
Stockton’s arrest was all but supposed to mean closure to a nearly 5-year-old murder investigation.
Instead, her arrest and follow up investigative work on the part of the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department produced two more homicide victims, both infants. Their bones were found last week in bags in the trunk of Stockton’s car.
Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia, who was instrumental in giving Baby Crystal an identity and a proper burial, said she is having a hard time dealing with the discovery of the two infants.
“Baby Crystal was difficult enough, and now we have two more infants. We put all of our energy and focus into Baby Crystal, but somehow we missed the other two.”
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Unknown pregnancy
After four-plus years of dead-end leads, much has been revealed to authorities in the past two weeks.
Still, more questions than answers remain.
What police do have is a 56-months-long timeline of events starting with the discovery of Baby Crystal and ending with the discovery of the two unknown infants. That timeline is slowly being filled with names of people, places and events in an attempt to link the babies to their parents.
The chain of events began on Dec. 17, 2004, when a 13-year-old girl’s dog returned home with a piece of bloodstained clothing in its mouth. The girl, Katie Stockton’s sister, followed her dog to a garbage bag in the 1500 block of Will Road where the discovery of Baby Crystal was made.
Katie Stockton and her parents were questioned, but Katie was never linked to the case.
“She wasn’t living at home at the time,” Meyers said. “If there was a pregnancy, no one admitted to knowing of it.”
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‘Broke my heart’
Ever since Baby Crystal’s discovery, her DNA has been kept on file, waiting to be matched with her mother’s.
Meyers said the Illinois State Police crime lab has Baby Crystal’s and Stockton’s DNA and may return the results of the testing as early as this week. Meyers did not know if the results would be released to the public.
Tuesday, a forensic pathologist and a forensic anthropologist will attempt to determine the age and sex of the infants, if they are twins, and if any trauma was involved in their deaths. Their DNA also will be submitted to the crime lab, Meyers said, where it will be matched against each other and to that of Stockton’s.
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Experts to begin Baby Crystal case tests
Posted Aug 17, 2009 @ 07:53 AM
Last update Aug 18, 2009 @ 08:31 AM
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Little happened Monday at Katie L. Stockton’s initial court appearance, but law enforcement officials are hoping for breakthroughs in the Baby Crystal case this week.
A lot is expected to happen in relation to charges of murder for the 2004 death of her newborn girl and the investigation into the death of two babies whose decomposed bodies were found in Stockton’s car last week.
Tuesday, possibly into Wednesday, forensic experts will examine the skeletons, which should shed light on how many bones were found and whether the babies suffered any trauma before their deaths. DNA samples also will be sent for testing.
Detectives became suspicious of Stockton this summer when she repeatedly refused to submit her DNA to the state’s crime database, a condition of her plea in a felony forgery case.
“It makes you ask, ‘Why isn’t she doing that? Is there some reason why she’s not doing that?’” Meyers said. “It’s things like that that pique your interest in someone.”
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S. Beloit wants Baby Crystal case answers
Posted Aug 19, 2009 @ 12:34 PM
Last update Aug 20, 2009 @ 06:58 AM
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City leaders will have a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 27 to discuss the Police Department’s involvement in the Baby Crystal investigation and personnel issues involving the city’s police chief.
South Beloit Mayor Randy Kirichkow said he and the city’s four commissioners want to talk about the department’s handling of a traffic stop in August 2008 and last week’s discovery of two infant skeletons in a car that South Beloit police impounded.
“Right now, commissioners have a lot of questions, and they have a right to have their questions answered,” Kirichkow said. “Most of their concerns are about communications in South Beloit and protocol. It appears that there was a breakdown in communications.”
“If the department followed procedure, then it wasn’t good enough and we might have to revisit it,” Redieske said. “I hope the meeting will fill us in.”
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Posted Aug 13, 2009 @ 11:52 PM
Last update Aug 14, 2009 @ 06:31 AM
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Melvin Zarate doesn’t remember the exact date, but he borrowed Katie L. Stockton’s car a few years ago to run an errand.
It was filthy, Zarate said, filled with garbage and clothing.
It’s the same car police searched Wednesday, finding the skeletons of two infants in separate bags in the trunk.
“I’m surprised,” Zarate said. “Just when you think the worst, it’s worse than I thought.”
The “worst” is last week’s murder charges against Stockton stemming from the December 2004 death of a baby girl, found frozen to death in Stockton’s parents’ yard in rural Rockton. The “worse” is the discovery of the bones of two other babies in Stockton’s car.
Investigators have no idea how long the bodies have been in the trunk.
Zarate, who met Stockton through a mutual friend in 2002, said he spoke with police Tuesday and told them about her car.
“I told them what it was like and that they should go through it,” he said. “I was thinking if she had the baby in the car, they could find evidence in there because she never cleaned it. I thought they’d find evidence about Baby Crystal. Instead, they find two more babies. It’s crazy.”
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Life of Baby Crystal's mom a mystery
Posted Aug 14, 2009 @ 10:39 PM
Last update Aug 15, 2009 @ 03:47 PM
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Last week, Katie Stockton was with her mother shopping for back-to-school clothes for her 9-year-old son at Wal-Mart.
Today, she’s locked in a cell in the Winnebago County Jail on a $1 million bond accused of leaving her newborn daughter to die on the side of the road in the middle of winter.
Meanwhile, county investigators have begun the task of searching for clues after the grisly discovery of two more dead infants found this week in the trunk of a car that Stockton owned.
And, it seems, everyone is trying to keep their distance from a young woman who smirked at the camera when she was arrested Aug. 5 for the death of Baby Crystal.
Stockton’s father, Steve, didn’t want to say anything about his daughter Friday when reached by phone. Neither did the man who was playing guitar in the backyard of the rural Rockton home, which was Stockton’s last known address and the home of her mother, Lisa Landsee, and Stockton’s stepfather.
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S. Beloit officials want car handling investigated
Posted Aug 14, 2009 @ 12:51 PM
Last update Aug 14, 2009 @ 11:48 PM
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A city commissioner is calling for an investigation into the South Beloit Police Department’s handling of an impounded car that contained the bodies of two dead babies, and the mayor says he wants some answers, too.
Commissioner Pam Clifton and Mayor Randy Kirichkow want city officials prepared to talk about what the city Police Department did when it impounded the car and if the proper protocol was followed, including an inventory of the car’s contents, and how police didn’t notice any signs of the decaying corpses in the trunk.
The Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department went Tuesday to South Beloit to track down a car belonging to Katie L. Stockton, a 28-year-old rural Rockton woman. Stockton was charged Aug. 5 with the murder of her newborn daughter. County detectives learned of the car through state registration records and traced the car, a 1993 Saturn sedan, to a South Beloit police impound lot, where it had been since Aug. 15, 2008. On Wednesday, as detectives searched the car for blood, hair and fiber evidence for the murder investigation, they discovered the skeletons of two other infants in the car’s trunk.
Meyers said he applauds South Beloit police for doing a routine traffic stop the afternoon of Aug. 15, 2008.
“I’m tickled to death that they ran her plates, saw the car was not registered, ran her license and saw she was unlicensed and impounded her car,” Meyers said. “What they did that day was routine stuff, nothing special, but they did what they should have done. They arrested her and took her to jail.”
“We’ll never know if the two bodies found in her car would have been found if that traffic stop wasn’t done,” Meyers said. “We may have never found those kids.”
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Coming DNA results: Savior or hard evidence in Baby Crystal case?
Posted Aug 15, 2009 @ 10:28 PM
Last update Aug 16, 2009 @ 07:43 PM
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Saliva on a Q-tip.
That may very well be the linchpin that seals the fate of a woman linking her to the deaths of up to three abandoned babies or clears her name and sends investigators back to square one.
Winnebago County sheriff’s detectives and the state’s attorney’s office are anxiously awaiting DNA results of a buccal swab, a swipe inside the cheek with a cotton tip applicator, taken from Katie L. Stockton.
The 28-year-old from rural Rockton was arrested Aug. 5 in Kansas City, Kan., in connection with the death of Baby Crystal, the infant born alive but left to die in the cold in December 2004 in a discarded garbage bag near the home of Stockton’s parents.
Stockton’s arrest was all but supposed to mean closure to a nearly 5-year-old murder investigation.
Instead, her arrest and follow up investigative work on the part of the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department produced two more homicide victims, both infants. Their bones were found last week in bags in the trunk of Stockton’s car.
Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia, who was instrumental in giving Baby Crystal an identity and a proper burial, said she is having a hard time dealing with the discovery of the two infants.
“Baby Crystal was difficult enough, and now we have two more infants. We put all of our energy and focus into Baby Crystal, but somehow we missed the other two.”
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Unknown pregnancy
After four-plus years of dead-end leads, much has been revealed to authorities in the past two weeks.
Still, more questions than answers remain.
What police do have is a 56-months-long timeline of events starting with the discovery of Baby Crystal and ending with the discovery of the two unknown infants. That timeline is slowly being filled with names of people, places and events in an attempt to link the babies to their parents.
The chain of events began on Dec. 17, 2004, when a 13-year-old girl’s dog returned home with a piece of bloodstained clothing in its mouth. The girl, Katie Stockton’s sister, followed her dog to a garbage bag in the 1500 block of Will Road where the discovery of Baby Crystal was made.
Katie Stockton and her parents were questioned, but Katie was never linked to the case.
“She wasn’t living at home at the time,” Meyers said. “If there was a pregnancy, no one admitted to knowing of it.”
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‘Broke my heart’
Ever since Baby Crystal’s discovery, her DNA has been kept on file, waiting to be matched with her mother’s.
Meyers said the Illinois State Police crime lab has Baby Crystal’s and Stockton’s DNA and may return the results of the testing as early as this week. Meyers did not know if the results would be released to the public.
Tuesday, a forensic pathologist and a forensic anthropologist will attempt to determine the age and sex of the infants, if they are twins, and if any trauma was involved in their deaths. Their DNA also will be submitted to the crime lab, Meyers said, where it will be matched against each other and to that of Stockton’s.
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Experts to begin Baby Crystal case tests
Posted Aug 17, 2009 @ 07:53 AM
Last update Aug 18, 2009 @ 08:31 AM
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Little happened Monday at Katie L. Stockton’s initial court appearance, but law enforcement officials are hoping for breakthroughs in the Baby Crystal case this week.
A lot is expected to happen in relation to charges of murder for the 2004 death of her newborn girl and the investigation into the death of two babies whose decomposed bodies were found in Stockton’s car last week.
Tuesday, possibly into Wednesday, forensic experts will examine the skeletons, which should shed light on how many bones were found and whether the babies suffered any trauma before their deaths. DNA samples also will be sent for testing.
Detectives became suspicious of Stockton this summer when she repeatedly refused to submit her DNA to the state’s crime database, a condition of her plea in a felony forgery case.
“It makes you ask, ‘Why isn’t she doing that? Is there some reason why she’s not doing that?’” Meyers said. “It’s things like that that pique your interest in someone.”
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S. Beloit wants Baby Crystal case answers
Posted Aug 19, 2009 @ 12:34 PM
Last update Aug 20, 2009 @ 06:58 AM
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City leaders will have a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 27 to discuss the Police Department’s involvement in the Baby Crystal investigation and personnel issues involving the city’s police chief.
South Beloit Mayor Randy Kirichkow said he and the city’s four commissioners want to talk about the department’s handling of a traffic stop in August 2008 and last week’s discovery of two infant skeletons in a car that South Beloit police impounded.
“Right now, commissioners have a lot of questions, and they have a right to have their questions answered,” Kirichkow said. “Most of their concerns are about communications in South Beloit and protocol. It appears that there was a breakdown in communications.”
“If the department followed procedure, then it wasn’t good enough and we might have to revisit it,” Redieske said. “I hope the meeting will fill us in.”
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No DNA or forensic results back on the 2 babies found in Katies trunk.
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Rockford Police Could Release DNA Test Results in Baby Crystal Case
Monday, Aug 24, 2009 @01:24pm CST
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Rockford-Investigators in the baby crystal case hope to get more answers this week. 28-year-old Katie Stockton in is in the Winnebago County jail on one-million-dollar bond. She's charged in the 2004 death of her newborn daughter known as Baby Crystal. Detectives also found the remains of two other infants in the trunk of Stockton's car. Police could make DNA tests and autopsy results public this week. Stockton's next court date is September third.
Meanwhile, the mayor of South Beloit will meet with other city leaders this week to talk about the case. He wants an investigation into whether the police department properly handled the traffic stop involving Stockton in August of 2008. Officers impounded her car. A year later, infant remains were found in the trunk. Mayor Randy Kirchkow thinks the car should have been checked more thoroughly before it was impounded.
*NOTE: September 3, 2009 is Katie Stockton's next court date!
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Rockford-Investigators in the baby crystal case hope to get more answers this week. 28-year-old Katie Stockton in is in the Winnebago County jail on one-million-dollar bond. She's charged in the 2004 death of her newborn daughter known as Baby Crystal. Detectives also found the remains of two other infants in the trunk of Stockton's car. Police could make DNA tests and autopsy results public this week. Stockton's next court date is September third.
Meanwhile, the mayor of South Beloit will meet with other city leaders this week to talk about the case. He wants an investigation into whether the police department properly handled the traffic stop involving Stockton in August of 2008. Officers impounded her car. A year later, infant remains were found in the trunk. Mayor Randy Kirchkow thinks the car should have been checked more thoroughly before it was impounded.
*NOTE: September 3, 2009 is Katie Stockton's next court date!
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SB police: All policies followed
Impound search properly conducted in ‘Crystal’ case
Published: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:38 PM CDT
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The South Beloit chief of police and Mayor Randy Kirichkow say they are convinced all police procedures were followed in regard to the impounding of a car that later was found to contain the remains of two infants.
“We followed our policies and procedures and our policies are consistent with other communities and they are consistent with CALEA (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies) standards,” Fearn said.
A South Beloit police officer had pulled Katie L. Stockton, 28, over on Aug. 15, 2008. She was found to be driving with a suspended license. The car was impounded and was placed in an impound lot in South Beloit.
Stockton was arrested Aug. 5 of this year and charged with homicide for the death of a baby found in Rockton Township on Dec. 17, 2004. The homicide investigation led to Stockton’s impounded car. The remains of two infants were found in the trunk of the car on Aug. 12.
The department’s policy on inventory searches states, “Officers are required to search all vehicles that they impound in order to safeguard personal property and to protect the department from claims of loss or theft.”
The policy also states, “The search shall include the glove compartment, trunk, engine compartment and all unlocked containers where property or equipment would ordinarily be stored.”
Without going into specifics, Fearn said all of these factors were complied with in the search of Stockton’s car when she was pulled over.
However, he added an impound search is different than a warrant search. While impound searches do sometimes result in recovery of items such as weapons or stolen items that can lead to further criminal charges, the purpose of an impound search is to ensure all items are accounted for if something should be missing when the owner reclaims the car.
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http://www.newsrunner.com/display-a...it+WI&eTitle=SB+police:+All+policies+followed
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Impound search properly conducted in ‘Crystal’ case
Published: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:38 PM CDT
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The South Beloit chief of police and Mayor Randy Kirichkow say they are convinced all police procedures were followed in regard to the impounding of a car that later was found to contain the remains of two infants.
“We followed our policies and procedures and our policies are consistent with other communities and they are consistent with CALEA (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies) standards,” Fearn said.
A South Beloit police officer had pulled Katie L. Stockton, 28, over on Aug. 15, 2008. She was found to be driving with a suspended license. The car was impounded and was placed in an impound lot in South Beloit.
Stockton was arrested Aug. 5 of this year and charged with homicide for the death of a baby found in Rockton Township on Dec. 17, 2004. The homicide investigation led to Stockton’s impounded car. The remains of two infants were found in the trunk of the car on Aug. 12.
The department’s policy on inventory searches states, “Officers are required to search all vehicles that they impound in order to safeguard personal property and to protect the department from claims of loss or theft.”
The policy also states, “The search shall include the glove compartment, trunk, engine compartment and all unlocked containers where property or equipment would ordinarily be stored.”
Without going into specifics, Fearn said all of these factors were complied with in the search of Stockton’s car when she was pulled over.
However, he added an impound search is different than a warrant search. While impound searches do sometimes result in recovery of items such as weapons or stolen items that can lead to further criminal charges, the purpose of an impound search is to ensure all items are accounted for if something should be missing when the owner reclaims the car.
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‘Crystal’ case more bizarre
Mystery deepens with discovery of infants’ skeletons in a car.
Published: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:47 AM CDT
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SOON, IT IS to be hoped, Winnebago County authorities will have more answers regarding the sad and bizarre deaths of three infants.
A Rockton woman, Katie Stockton, 28, has been charged with wrapping her newborn baby in bloody clothing and leaving her to freeze to death in a roadside ditch near her parents’ home in December 2004. A grand jury has found probable cause to indict Stockton for the crime.
Authorities arrested Stockton on Aug. 4 on “new information” in the death of the infant, named “Baby Crystal” after her body was found.
When county detectives searched Stockton’s car, they found, along with other possible evidence, the skeletons of two infants. Forensic experts and the state crime laboratory have been studying the remains.
County authorities, as of last weekend, declined to say what, if any, results they have. Nor would the county sheriff or the state’s attorney say if the crime lab had returned results of DNA tests linking Stockton to Baby Crystal.
AT THIS TIME, though, the decision to skip a “discovery” meeting and second-guessing how the police handled the search is sensible.
It’s to be hoped that forensic experts and authorities will come up with evidence that leads to the conviction of whomever is responsible for the deaths of three babies. This tragic case has touched the hearts of thousands of people in our communities. These little ones deserve justice.
Article:
http://www.newsrunner.com/display-a...eTitle=EDITORIAL:+‘Crystal’+case+more+bizarre
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Mystery deepens with discovery of infants’ skeletons in a car.
Published: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:47 AM CDT
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SOON, IT IS to be hoped, Winnebago County authorities will have more answers regarding the sad and bizarre deaths of three infants.
A Rockton woman, Katie Stockton, 28, has been charged with wrapping her newborn baby in bloody clothing and leaving her to freeze to death in a roadside ditch near her parents’ home in December 2004. A grand jury has found probable cause to indict Stockton for the crime.
Authorities arrested Stockton on Aug. 4 on “new information” in the death of the infant, named “Baby Crystal” after her body was found.
When county detectives searched Stockton’s car, they found, along with other possible evidence, the skeletons of two infants. Forensic experts and the state crime laboratory have been studying the remains.
County authorities, as of last weekend, declined to say what, if any, results they have. Nor would the county sheriff or the state’s attorney say if the crime lab had returned results of DNA tests linking Stockton to Baby Crystal.
AT THIS TIME, though, the decision to skip a “discovery” meeting and second-guessing how the police handled the search is sensible.
It’s to be hoped that forensic experts and authorities will come up with evidence that leads to the conviction of whomever is responsible for the deaths of three babies. This tragic case has touched the hearts of thousands of people in our communities. These little ones deserve justice.
Article:
http://www.newsrunner.com/display-a...eTitle=EDITORIAL:+‘Crystal’+case+more+bizarre
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Media to post & bumping for our three little baby angels!
They will not be forgotten by me ever!
":innocent: :baby: Crystal", ":innocent: :baby: #1", & ":innocent: :baby: #2"
FYI: No DNA back yet still....I check everyday for any news on these little :innocent: :baby:'s! :cry:
Dad gets temporary custody of Baby Crystal mom’s son
Posted Aug 26, 2009 @ 11:55 PM
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The father of Katie L. Stockton’s 9-year-old son was granted temporary custody of the child Wednesday as she awaits trial on a murder charge in the death of her newborn baby. Police say she left the infant in a garbage bag alongside a country road in 2004.
Stockton, 28, is in the Winnebago County Jail.
On Wednesday, Adam Bickel of Beloit, Wis., and Stockton signed an order granting temporary custody of their child to Bickel.
Attorney John Gilbert, who represents Stockton’s mother, Lisa Landsee, said the agreement also gives visitation rights to Landsee.
“It’s their grandchild,” Gilbert said of Landsee and her husband, Stockton’s stepfather. “They still want to be a part of his life.”
Bickel and Landsee declined to comment.
Winnebago County Judge Steven Nordquist signed the order Wednesday, as well. Stockton, who is being held on a $1 million bond, did not appear in court. She was taken to the Winnebago County Courthouse and signed the document in a holding cell.
Bickel filed a petition for a hearing regarding the boy’s custody Aug. 12, a week after Stockton’s arrest.
Stockton is charged with the December 2004 killing of her newborn daughter, whom law enforcement officials named Crystal. Prosecutors say the baby froze to death.
On Aug. 12, Winnebago County sheriff’s detectives discovered the skeletons of two other infants in the trunk of Stockton’s car, a 1993 Saturn sedan that had been impounded by the South Beloit Police Department in August 2008. Detectives are still investigating the deaths of the those infants and any role Stockton may have had.
Article:
http://www.rrstar.com/homepage/x772321083/Dad-gets-temporary-custody-of-Baby-Crystal-mom-s-son
rayer: Rest In Peace Little Ones!
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They will not be forgotten by me ever!
":innocent: :baby: Crystal", ":innocent: :baby: #1", & ":innocent: :baby: #2"
FYI: No DNA back yet still....I check everyday for any news on these little :innocent: :baby:'s! :cry:
Dad gets temporary custody of Baby Crystal mom’s son
Posted Aug 26, 2009 @ 11:55 PM
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The father of Katie L. Stockton’s 9-year-old son was granted temporary custody of the child Wednesday as she awaits trial on a murder charge in the death of her newborn baby. Police say she left the infant in a garbage bag alongside a country road in 2004.
Stockton, 28, is in the Winnebago County Jail.
On Wednesday, Adam Bickel of Beloit, Wis., and Stockton signed an order granting temporary custody of their child to Bickel.
Attorney John Gilbert, who represents Stockton’s mother, Lisa Landsee, said the agreement also gives visitation rights to Landsee.
“It’s their grandchild,” Gilbert said of Landsee and her husband, Stockton’s stepfather. “They still want to be a part of his life.”
Bickel and Landsee declined to comment.
Winnebago County Judge Steven Nordquist signed the order Wednesday, as well. Stockton, who is being held on a $1 million bond, did not appear in court. She was taken to the Winnebago County Courthouse and signed the document in a holding cell.
Bickel filed a petition for a hearing regarding the boy’s custody Aug. 12, a week after Stockton’s arrest.
Stockton is charged with the December 2004 killing of her newborn daughter, whom law enforcement officials named Crystal. Prosecutors say the baby froze to death.
On Aug. 12, Winnebago County sheriff’s detectives discovered the skeletons of two other infants in the trunk of Stockton’s car, a 1993 Saturn sedan that had been impounded by the South Beloit Police Department in August 2008. Detectives are still investigating the deaths of the those infants and any role Stockton may have had.
Article:
http://www.rrstar.com/homepage/x772321083/Dad-gets-temporary-custody-of-Baby-Crystal-mom-s-son
rayer: Rest In Peace Little Ones! :angel:
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