Former University of Kentucky Cheerleader Charged With 1st Degree Manslaughter
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
A grand jury has indicted 22-year-old Laken Snelling with the much more serious charge of first degree manslaughter for the death of her newborn baby last August. Police initially charged the college senior with lesser counts of abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence after finding the body of her newborn hidden in a black trash bag in Snelling’s closet. The medical examiner determined the baby was born alive, but died by “asphyxia by undetermined means.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.2 | It is Wednesday, March 11th, and a grand jury thinks a college cheerleader should face manslaughter charges in the death of her newborn. |
| 0:18.4 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, I don't think I have |
| 0:23.2 | seen a headline that didn't include the fact that she was a cheerleader right or wrong. She was, |
| 0:30.9 | and that's just the fact of the case that is getting a lot of attention. Yes, we're talking about |
| 0:35.4 | at the time she was 21 years old, Lakin Snelling, a senior |
| 0:39.9 | at the University of Kentucky, and yes, her cheerleading picture is everywhere because she looks |
| 0:46.7 | like this all-American girl at the University of Kentucky. How could she be capable of doing |
| 0:53.4 | what prosecutors claim she did? |
| 0:56.1 | You know what? If you haven't been following this story at all, just right now, close your |
| 1:02.3 | eyes and picture a University of Kentucky cheerleader. She probably comes to mind. |
| 1:07.9 | Yes. Right? She just fits that bill. She looks like that. So I guess |
| 1:12.6 | Robs, that was a part of the intrigue. But she is a senior. She was 21 years old. I guess a lot of the |
| 1:19.5 | details of this, of this crime now are certainly horrific. But the update we just got, Robes, |
| 1:27.1 | she was initially arrested, but she's been out. And we just got, Robes, she was initially arrested, |
| 1:28.3 | but she's been out, and we just got an update this week. They presented evidence to a grand jury. |
| 1:33.1 | Yep, they gave the grand jury all of the evidence from the autopsy, the medical examiner, |
| 1:38.1 | interviews with her roommates, and even interviews with her. Because initially, she was charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, |
| 1:48.2 | and concealing the birth of an infant. |
| 1:49.9 | I didn't even know that was a crime. |
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