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Images of Red Wing infants reconstructed
Last update: February 8, 2008 - 11:37 PM


RED WING, MINN. - The Goodhue County Sheriff's Office has released composite images of three infants found dead along the Mississippi River from 1999 to 2007, hoping they will spur new leads in cases that have stymied investigators for years.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children created the images, which represent how the babies might have appeared in their first year. Forensic artists prepared the images based on photos that local authorities took.

"We're trying to do everything in our power and trying to think outside the box on solving this case," Sheriff's Capt. Pat Thompson told the Red Wing Republican Eagle.

Sheriff Dean Albers said he hopes one of the images might spark a memory for someone who could provide investigators with new information.

In 1999, two fishermen spotted a baby girl's body floating near Bay Point Park. Four years later, a group of teenagers discovered the body of a newborn boy along the water in Old Frontenac, Minn., and last year, two workers at a Prairie Island marina found another body of a baby girl.

Authorities believe the babies found in 1999 and 2003 probably came from the same mother. They don't believe the baby found last year is related to the first two.

Thompson said the Sheriff's Office has developed about 100 leads, and said investigators are currently working on what he called a promising lead.

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Sketches of dead babies released
Jen Cullen The Republican Eagle
Published Friday, February 08, 2008

Authorities on Thursday released forensic images of three infants found dead in 1999, 2003 and 2007 along the Mississippi River in Goodhue County.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children created the composite renderings, which represent how the babies might have appeared soon after birth.

Forensic artists created the images using photos local authorities took of the babies.




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“This definitely adds a touch of life to the children,” said Capt. Pat Thompson of the Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office. “I’m hoping the public’s reaction is a positive one. We’re trying to do everything in our power and trying to think outside the box on solving this case.”

The sheriff’s department is still actively investigating all three cases and has developed about 100 leads to date.

Thompson said authorities are currently working on a “promising” lead. He confirmed that officers spoke with a woman who denied any involvement in the three cases.

Authorities took a DNA sample from the woman — who Thompson said is familiar with the Goodhue County area — and are awaiting test results.

“We have good information that needs to be examined further,” Thompson said.

Investigators are preparing for a flood of calls following release of the images.

Thompson said it’s important to note the clothing is not connected with the investigation. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is required to clothe children depicted in composites.

Sheriff Dean Albers called the images emotional. He hopes getting them out in the public eye will spark a memory that produces a call to his investigators.

“The photos make you stop what you’re doing and look at them,” Albers said. “It makes you reflect a lot.

“Now you can look at those pictures and see that these were little babies, human babies. We still need that closure.”

It will be nine years this November since a baby girl was spotted floating in the water near Bay Point Park by two fishermen.

Four years later in 2003, a group of teenagers discovered a newborn boy along the shoreline in Old Frontenac.

In 2007, two workers at Prairie Island marina found the body of a baby girl.

Authorities said last summer there is a very high probability the infants found in 1999 and 2003 had the same mother. There is a more than 90 percent chance they are Caucasian, authorities said.

The third baby — possibly American Indian — is probably not related to the first two, according to the test results.

Thompson said his investigators have often felt frustrated that the cases are still unsolved.

The images, he said, have given the department a renewed sense of optimism.

“It brought the children to life for us,” Thompson said. “Maybe this will give us another breath to keep going with this investigation.”

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New Pictures in Red Wing Baby Cases

(KAAL)--- New pictures released today may bring investigators one-step closer to solving the cases of three babies, thrown into the Mississippi River.

Over the last eight years, three infants have been found dead in the waters of the river, but how they got there, and who's to blame is still a mystery.

Now pictures of what these children used to look like may help solve the case.

The pictures show the faces of the three babies found dead in the Mississippi River.

"The pictures make you stop and pause and take a look...it actually put more of a human face on it than when we found their remains before," said Goodhue County Sheriff Dean Albers.

The forensic drawings, put together by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, are based on the human remains of the infants found dead along the river within the last 8 years.

One infant female was found in 1999 in Red Wing.

The second baby, a boy was found in and the last baby, another female was found just last March at Treasure Island Marina.

Sheriff Albers says they have a new lead.

Earlier in the week they received a tip that someone may be linked to one of the cases.

They took DNA samples from that person and they expect to get results within 2-3 weeks.



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Red Wing, Minn. / Sheriff hopes images help solve mystery of 3 dead newborns
Pioneer Press

Article Last Updated: 02/09/2008 12:03:24 AM CST


The Goodhue County sheriff's office released composite sketches Friday of three babies found dead in Mississippi River waters near Red Wing the past eight years.

Sheriff Dean Albers released the images hoping someone would come forward with information.

"The idea is to put a face on these babies, to let people know that they were real people," he said.

The first baby - a newborn girl - turned up in a Red Wing marina in 1999, followed by a newborn boy in Lake Pepin in 2003 and another newborn girl in the Treasure Island Resort & Casino marina in 2007. The sheriff's office has made several appeals for information and has received about 100 leads. None has panned out.

The first two infants had the same mother and were almost certainly white, authorities concluded based on DNA tests. The third infant was not related to the first two and was most likely of American Indian descent.

Albers said his office recently has taken DNA samples from several people, including one woman.

The images were created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children based on photos of the dead children.

Anyone with information may contact the sheriff's office at 651-385-3155.

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John Lauritsen (WCCO)
There is new hope to solve the mystery of three little babies found dead in the Mississippi River. Thanks to recently released composite drawings they were given names, and now they have faces.

A little girl, Jamie, was discovered in November of 1999 at a Red Wing boat harbor. Corey is believed to be Jamie's brother and his body was discovered in December of 2003 at a beach near the town of Frontenac. Last March authorities discovered the body of Abby at the Treasure Island Marina.

Forensic artists from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children used photographs of the bodies and the infants' skull measurements to create composite drawings of what the babies might have looked like at the time of their deaths.

"They are not perfect but it is a representation and more than anything it shows that they were here and they had a face," said Goodhue County Sheriff Dean Albers.

Forensic artists are required to put clothing on infants, and the clothing in each of the drawings is not connected to the investigation. Authorities think the composites could help piece together a frustrating puzzle. Over the years they have had more than 100 leads, yet the investigations remain unsolved.

Jeanne Madtson gave birth to a stillborn baby, so she and her husband took special interest in each of these babies. They gave them names and donated their burial plots. She talked about the infants that have a special place in her heart.

"It's kind of overwhelming to think that's what they looked like and how someone could just put them in the water," said Madtson.

It took three months to create the drawings and Sheriff Dean Albers said they couldn't have been released at a better time. Since Jan. 1 they have received only two fresh leads in these investigations.

"If you have information how could you look at these and not make a phone call? Now that you have seen a face? We hope it pulls on them," said Albers.

Within the past 24 hours they took a DNA sample from a woman and that sample will be given to investigators. She met a profile of someone they have been interested in talking with. Over the years Goodhue County authorities have taken about a dozen other DNA samples from other women, and in each case they could not link the women to the infants.

If you have any information you are urged to contact the Goodhue County Sheriff's Office at 651-385-3155, or the Goodhue County Tip Line at 866-887-HELP. Callers can remain anonymous.
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Two babies dumped in river likely share same mother
by Sea Stachura, Minnesota Public Radio
July 3, 2007
The Goodhue County sheriff says two of the three infants found in the Mississippi River are related. In the past eight years two baby girls and a boy have been found dead in the Mississippi around the Red Wing area. Police have known for some time that two of the children were related, but withheld the information. Authorities are now looking to the public for helping in solving the cases.

Red Wing, Minn. — A boater found the first newborn in 1999 near a Red Wing marina. The second, a boy, was discovered in 2003 near Frontenac.

Goodhue County Sheriff Dean Albers says a dock worker found the third newborn in March near the Treasure Island casino and resort marina . Her body was badly decomposed from months in the water.

Albers says DNA testing has revealed that the first two infants are likely Caucasian and had the same mother. Those two children were born alive, and placed in the river shortly after birth. Albers says they were likely still breathing.

"We have two different mothers whose children were left in the river. We suspect the people who left the children in the river knew the area. We also suspect the mothers concealed their pregnancy, but were likely to act strangely particularly around the time the newborns were left in the river," he said.

Albers says testing on the third infant shows she was almost certainly Native American and unrelated to the first two infants. But Albers says the child had been submerged too long for investigators to determine whether she was born alive or how she died.

The Prairie Island Indian Community is located just north of Red Wing. It owns the Treasure Island Casino. The tribe released a statement saying it is cooperating fully with investigators, but it does not believe any of the babies came from the tribe.

Police have created a profile of a woman who might have done this. They believes she is single, between the ages of 17 and 24, and probably concealed her pregnancy.

Albers says he believes these deaths are murders and were likely committed by the infants' mothers. His department has DNA tested dozens of women and followed over 50 leads. But even with that, police were at a standstill in the case.

Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Tim McNalley says that prompted his department and the Goodhue County sheriff's office to look for racial markers. Authorities knew from earlier DNA testing that the first two children were related, but state labs don't have the capabilities to determine race. The DNA was sent to a privately owned Florida lab.

"The analysis that we have now from the Florida lab will help us narrow the focus on the pool of people who are likely the mothers," McNalley said.

McNalley says that doesn't mean the BCA can run a check of DNA matches for people in the criminal system or living in Goodhue County. He says it's hard to match the DNA of an offspring to a parent in broad circumstances like these. Instead, he says he's hoping this will prompt more information from the public.

"Three pregnancies, three births, three deaths; somebody noticed something. Those things don't happen without somebody having some information," he said.

Sheriff Albers says it's unclear whether anyone assisted the mothers in these crimes, but he believes both women knew the Red Wing area. And he's concerned this will happen again.

"It's now been shown that one person can do this twice," he said. "And that really concerns me. Was the third one a copycat? Or the idea was from the first two? Maybe the third one decided that was what they were going to do, and I don't want a fourth. We need the public's help."

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Goodhue sheriff: 'Significant' findings on tests of 3 infants
June 28, 2007
Red Wing, Minn. — (AP) DNA tests on three dead babies found in or near the Mississippi River in the past eight years have yielded "significant" results, the Goodhue County sheriff said.

Sheriff Dean Albers would not discuss the results Thursday, saying he expected to make a public statement next week.

"I think it will be significant," he said.

A newborn's body was found in March in the river near the Treasure Island Resort & Casino marina. Authorities said the girl had been in the water for up to six months. In 1999, a boater found the body of a newborn girl near a marina in Red Wing; and in 2003, the body of a newborn boy was found near Frontenac.

The identities of the babies, and causes of death, haven't been determined. Authorities have called the three deaths along a 15-mile stretch of the river unusual.

Goodhue County spent more than $4,000 to have the babies' remains tested, the Red Wing Republican Eagle reported. Albers said those results were returned last week. He said he needed to meet with officials from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension before releasing any specifics.

A funeral and burial service was held this week for the infant found in March.

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Body of newborn girl pulled from Mississippi near Red Wing







Goodhue County Authorities revealed Tuesday afternoon that the body pulled from the river near Red Wing yesterday was a newborn girl. They also revealed that she'd been in the water significantly longer than originally thought. "Right now, it appears the child was placed in the water sometime late fall, or early winter, based on the condition of the body," shared Goodhue County Chief Deputy Scott McNurlin.

"We don't have a place of origin where the body would have been placed, or how it came to rest in the marina harbor."

Workers found the child while cleaning boat slips just before 1 p.m. Monday, at the Treasure Island Marina. Because of the strong spring current, it is difficult to determine where she came from.

The coroners report also found broken bones and other trauma, but investigators believe those injuries happened after the child was put in the water. It is also unclear if the baby was alive at the time she was put in the water.

The discovery shook the community of Red Wing. This is the third newborn pulled from the Mississippi River in the last eight years.

Among those feeling the loss, is the staff at Fairview Red Wing Medical Services. "A lot of frustration and heartbreak for that poor mom, and for the community," vented Fairview Manager of Emergency and Urgent Care Services Jane Gisslen "It's a loss for the entire community."

Like all hospitals across Minnesota, Fairview adheres to the Safe Place for Newborns Act. It allows mothers to leave infants less than 72 hours old at a hospital or medical facility, with no questions, other than a few health issues that could impact the babies survival.

Gisslen isn't sure if the mother of this child didn't know about the law or if she didn't trust it. "We are sincere about that non-reporting business. I think they're afraid they're going to be under the radar reported, but if the child is less than 72 hours old, we take them, other than medical questions, we take them no questions asked. They need to be confident in that belief."

Since the mother chose a more desperate option, the Goodhue County Sheriff's department is trying to find her. They are being helped by law enforcement agencies up-river, the Minnesota BCA, and behavioral specialists from the FBI.

Besides finding the child's parents, they will also attempt to determine if she is related to the two other newborns, found in the river in 1999 and 2003. DNA tests could help prove if they were born to the same mother.

In the meantime, investigators struggle with the same question everyone is asking, how could something this horrible happen in the same community three times? "The community is just reeling from this," reflected Deputy Chief McNurlin. "The first time it happens it's of concern, the second time it's almost beyond belief, and the third time you can't put words to it. It's something, even from a national perspective; I haven't seen anything quite like this."



By Dana Thiede, KARE 11 News




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Published March 26 2010
State turns to social media in case of 2007 dead baby
By: Jen Cullen, The Republican Eagle

Three years to the day after Prairie Island marina workers found a newborn baby girl floating in the Mississippi River, authorities announced they are turning to social media outlets to generate new leads in the case.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Friday it has established a Facebook page to get the public's help with cold cases, missing persons and Amber Alerts.

Abby - a name given by local residents to the missing baby found March 26, 2007, in Goodhue County - and dozens of other cases are highlighted on the BCA's site.

Goodhue County sheriff's officials said Friday they are pleased the case - which they are still investigating - will be spotlighted.

"I think any way to get the information out to the public is effective in helping solve this case," said Goodhue County sheriff's Capt. Pat Thompson.

Information about two other babies - likely siblings - found in the Mississippi River near Red Wing is also included on the BCA's page through a link to cold case playing cards the department released in 2008.

State-level law enforcement officials worked with local and county authorities to create the deck of cards. The decks highlight unsolved homicide, missing person and unidentified remains cases.

Each card featured a photograph of the victim, information about the case and how to submit a tip.

"We want to do everything we can to solve every case we investigate," said BCA Director of Administrative Services Janell Rasmussen. "Through Facebook, the BCA can communicate directly and immediately with the people of Minnesota."

Investigators believe Abby's body may have been in the water for as long as six months before being found. DNA evidence indicates there is as much as a 70 percent chance she is American Indian.

Authorities believe the other two babies - one a baby girl discovered in 1999 in the water near Bay Point Park, the other found in 2003 along the shoreline in Old Frontenac - are Caucasian and had the same mother.

"It appears that our society is getting more and more reliant on communicating with the Internet," Thompson said. "I think it's another way of getting the information out to the public. It's definitely not going to hurt."

The BCA's site also provides information to the public about internet safety, Crime Alerts as well as general crime prevention information.

If you have any information about the baby girl, call the BCA Tip Line at (877) 996-6222 or the Goodhue County Sheriff's Office at (651) 385-3155. To become a fan of the BCA on Facebook, follow this link www.facebook.com/pages/Saint-Paul-MN/MnDPS_BCA-Bureau-of-Criminal-Apprehension/161470878700?ref=mf
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Unidentified Female

* Discovered on March 26, 2007 in Welch, Goodhue County, Minnesota
* Estimated Date of Death: Up to six months prior

Vital Statistics

* Estimated age: Newborn
* Approximate Height and Weight: 15"; 7 lbs.
* Distinguishing Characteristics: There is as much as a 70 percent chance that the baby is of Native decent. Straight, dark hair.

Case History
The body of a newborn girl was found March 26, 2007 at the Treasure Island Marina in Welch, Minnesota.
This is one of three cases of newborns found in the county in 8 years. In 1999, a boater found the body of a newborn girl near a marina in Red Wing and in 2003, the body of a newborn boy was found near Frontenac. In all three cases, investigators believed that the infants were born alive. Autopsies were never able to ascertain causes of death.
Investigators have stated that this infant may not have the same mother as the other two.
The girl has been nicknamed "Abby".
Forensic artists from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children used photographs of the bodies and the infants' skull measurements to create composite drawings of what the babies might have looked like at the time of their deaths.
The clothing in the drawings is not connected to the investigation.
Authorities think the composites could help piece together a frustrating puzzle. Over the years they have had more than 100 leads, yet the investigations remain unsolved.
Officials believe that mothers of the children may have hidden their pregnancies and are probably familiar with the area.

Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Goodhue County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Dean Albers
651-385-3155
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