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Topic Started: Sep 13 2011, 09:15 PM (275 Views)
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Authorities on Tuesday revealed several items -- among them angel figurines -- that were in a canvas bag along with the body of a newborn girl found on Labor Day in the Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota.

Investigators said they hope that someone will recognize one or more of the items and provide some clue about the identity of the baby's mother.

The newborn weighed about 7 pounds and was in a bag when it was found about 6 miles southeast of Winona floating in the river at about 2 p.m. Monday. A family out on a boating excursion spotted the baby, which was born two to three days before she was discovered.

At a news conference, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension senior special agent Drew Evans and Winona County Sheriff David Brand showed the items, among them the figurines, a T-shirt and the bag.

Brand and other authorities have taken to calling the infant Angel.

The mother "likely gave birth unassisted, and we want to make sure she gets whatever medical attention or mental health resources she needs," Evans said.

Investigators were awaiting autopsy results to learn more about how the infant died.

"We're doing everything we can to better understand how and why this baby girl ended up deceased in the river," Evans said. "Identifying her mother will help us in that effort."

Anyone with information about the infant or the mother is urged to call the Sheriff's Office at 1-507-457-6368 or its anonymous tips line at 1-507-457-6530.

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Baby in river was abandoned, but not alone
By John Brewer
jbrewer@pioneerpress.com
Updated: 09/13/2011 11:38:08 PM CDT



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The newborn girl was dumped in the Mississippi River on or just before Labor Day, sealed in a canvas bag with the name of a Mexican tourist town stitched on the side.

Inside, she was wrapped in a green T-shirt and tied inside two plastic garbage bags. Two small angel figurines lay next to her.

A charm bracelet - with an eye motif - and two larger angel figurines were placed in the canvas bag, too.

Then someone - presumably her mother - put the 7-pound girl in the river near Winona. She was found dead Labor Day afternoon by a passing boater.

"We've named her Angel," said Winona County Sheriff Steve Brand. "We want to give Angel a last name."

The new details about the newborn, the fourth to be pulled dead from the Mississippi River in southeast Minnesota since 1999, were released Tuesday.

Investigators from the county and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension have tracked down about 25 leads in the case, but none has panned out. That's why Brand and BCA Senior Special Agent Drew Evans made a public plea for the mother to come forward. They hoped the items found in the bag with Angel would help someone identify the mother.

Evans said investigators want to find the mother, who they believe gave birth alone without medical attention, because she likely needs physical and mental help.

"We would like to discuss how this child was born and how this child ended up in the Mississippi River," Evans said.

The BCA agent said he has spoken


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with authorities in Goodhue County, about 60 miles up river, about the three newborn babies who turned up in the river near their communities in 1999, 2003 and 2007. At this point, he said, those unsolved cases do not appeared directly linked to the baby found Labor Day.
Angel was found in the main channel of the Mississippi River about 2:20 p.m. Labor Day by passing boaters six miles south of Winona. Brand said the boaters passed the canvas bag but were curious, so they turned around and

Winona County Sheriff Dave Brand speaks at a news conference in Winona Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2011. Authorities released photos of items that were recovered with the body of a baby who was found in the Mississippi River on Labor Day, in the hope that the public can help to identify the mother of the baby. (Pioneer Press: Scott Takushi)picked it up. When they realized what was inside, they called 911.
Brand's investigators are following up with boaters who were on the river that day. His deputies took down boat registrations from craft in the area after the body was found, he said.

Evans said autopsy results from the medical examiner in Dakota County are pending and it's still too early to determine the child's race or exactly when she died.

He did say that the girl was likely in the river less than a day before she was found. All of the items found with her were currently at the BCA's labs being checked for fingerprints and DNA evidence.

As Brand and Evans talked with media about the images, one stood out.

On the bottom of one of the plastic bags Angel was tied in was a warning: "To avoid danger of suffocation, keep this plastic bag away from babies and children."

"This infant had no one to support it," Brand said. "We're here to ask the public for their help to solve this investigation."

John Brewer can be reached at 651-228-2093.
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MINNEAPOLIS • Authorities in Minnesota say an angel figurine found with a baby girl dumped in the Mississippi River was produced for a Catholic missionary group.

The figurine carried a label that said it was made exclusively for the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Belleville. The Belleville News-Democrat reported the ornament was sold through a catalog in 2000.

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension spokeswoman Jill Oliveira says investigators used a search warrant to get a list of purchasers of the ornament and are following up. Oliveira says it's a long list that includes both people and businesses that would have re-sold the ornaments.

The girl's body was found by boaters Sept. 5 inside a canvas bag floating in the river a few miles south of Winona


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