Former Teen Beauty Queen Accused of Dumping Deceased Newborn in Trash Bag | Crime Alert 6AM 09.03.25
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
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A University of Kentucky cheerleader is arrested after police find her newborn baby dead in a closet, wrapped in a towel and stuffed inside a trash bag. A man is found dead in a pool of blood during the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada, and police are treating it as a homicide. A University of Kentucky cheerleader is arrested after police find her newborn baby dead in a closet, wrapped in a towel and stuffed inside a trash bag. Drew Nelson reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. I'm Drew Nelson. A University of Kentucky |
| 0:05.7 | cheerleader is arrested after police find her newborn baby dead in a closet, wrapped in a towel, |
| 0:11.1 | stuffed inside a trash bag. Lake and Snelling, age 21, was taken into custody on Sunday. Four |
| 0:16.7 | days earlier, officers had been called to her home on Park Avenue in Lexington. |
| 0:21.2 | They arrived just after 10.30 that morning and found the baby in a closet. The infant was already dead. |
| 0:26.6 | According to court records, Snelling admitted she had given birth and, quote, cleaned any evidence, |
| 0:31.1 | placing all cleaning items used inside of a black bag with the infant. |
| 0:35.6 | She now faces charges of abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical |
| 0:38.9 | evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant. The official cause of the baby's death has not |
| 0:43.3 | been released. The Fayette County Coroner's Office is still reviewing the case. The university |
| 0:47.6 | confirms Snelling is the baby's mother. Snelling is a senior at the University of Kentucky, |
| 0:53.1 | and she's been a member of the school's stunt team for the last three seasons. Stunt is a senior at the University of Kentucky, and she's been a member of the school's Stunt team for the last three seasons. |
| 0:57.5 | Stunt is a competitive cheerleading sport that focuses on skill-based routines like stunts, jumps, pyramids, and tumbling. |
| 1:05.5 | It is described by the university as one of the fastest-growing female sports in the country. |
| 1:10.3 | Snelling is originally from |
| 1:11.6 | White Pine, Tennessee. She once held the title of Jefferson County's Fairest of the Fair. She was |
| 1:17.7 | studying interdisciplinary disability studies and often posted about pageants and her dream of one day |
| 1:23.5 | becoming a mother. In June, she shared a video listing quote-unquote being a mom as one of |
| 1:29.0 | her life goals. Snelling posted a $100,000 bond and was released on home incarceration without an |
| 1:35.3 | ankle monitor. She's required to live with her parents. The Lexington Police Department's |
| 1:39.5 | special victim section is still investigating. Anyone with information is urged to call |
| 1:43.6 | 859-258-3600 or submit an |
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