
Woman Charged Decades After Newborn's Death
A 65-year-old Arizona woman has been arrested and charged with the murder of her newborn child, whose body was found abandoned 45 years ago. The arrest comes after decades of investigation into the cold case.
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Arizona woman charged with killing newborn child 45 years after body was found
Nancy Jean Trottier faces a murder charge after DNA linked her to a newborn found suffocated on a North Dakota college campus over 40 years ago.
Read full article →Woman, 65, charged in infamous abandoned baby ‘Rebecca’ case from 1981: ‘Maybe it was me’
Rebecca was found to be 3.481 quadrillion times more likely to be the child of Nancy Jean Trottier and her husband than another individual, according to authorities
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Read full article →Elderly Woman Arrested for Suffocating Her Newborn Decades Ago, Police Allege
A 65-year-old woman from Arizona is finally facing justice decades after she allegedly suffocated her newborn baby to death and tossed her in the woods at a North Dakota college campus. Nancy Jean Trottier was arrested April 7 for the alleged…
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