Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now.

Crystal Candelario sets her 16-month-old up in a playpen at their Ohio home with their favorite

blankets and toys.

She then tells baby-jill and goodbye, but there's no babysitter.

Candelario leaves the tot alone, ten days, while she, mommy, vacations in Puerto Rico.

When mommy returns, Jeline Candelario is not breathing.

The baby girl pronounced dead at the hospital.

Nancy, hospital staff say the child died of starvation and severe dehydration.

The pack and play in which J. Lynn Candelario died was full of blankets saturated with urine

and feces.

As part of a plea deal, two additional murder charges

and an assault charge against Candelario were dropped.

Candelario's defense attorney claims several mitigating issues will be raised at

sentencing next week.

Crystal Candelario, 32, pleads guilty to aggravated murder.

Florida cops stop a couple for rolling through a stop sign at an overpass deep in the Everglades.

The cop asked what the couple's doing at 4 a.m.

Ariel le Choir and Michael Clemens report they've been gathering frogs and snakes.

Cops search the car and find a backpack crammed full of 41 turtles.

The officers ask if they've got anything else, and LeQuire reluctantly pulls a foot-long alligator out of,

wait for it, her pants! Fish and wildlife step in and the couple now charged with several turtle-related offenses

require additionally hit with possessing an American alligator.

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