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So a little different story tonight.

If you've been following the saga of a young woman named Lakin Snelling,

young University of Kentucky cheerleader, you may remember that back in September, 2025, Ms. Snelling

found herself in a world of hurt. And that's because her roommates, housemates, she was living with, found something in her

closet.

It was a dead baby.

It was Lakin's dead baby.

And that baby was wrapped up and stuffed in the closet, presumably to hide the fact that there

was a baby at any time.

And we've got a lot to update you on because here we

are seven months later and I was sort of wondering, where is that case? And wouldn't you know it?

Big update dropped. And it turns out, yeah, we have been waiting a while. But it's an update that

I don't think Lake and Snelly wanted to hear. It does not bode well for her. And I'm going to get to

all the details in just a minute, but I want to just get you up to speed on the details of the case,

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