Hi everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious. And in this episode,

a college cheerleader hides a pregnancy until her newborn baby is discovered dead inside a closet.

You might think I'm talking about Lakin Snelling, the most recent headline.

And I am, but I am also talking about dozens of other teen moms who have done this very same thing.

In fact, I myself, in 37 years of covering true crime, have reported on somewhere around a dozen girls who've done this.

Some of them got away with it and some of them did not.

And one girl did it six times.

She got pregnant six times and discarded her babies and I will get to her in just a hot minute.

There's also the girl who went to her prom and gave birth in the bathroom and then went back in for a little bit more dancing.

I know. I don't get that either. It is a lot to process. I've had two

kids. Ain't no way I was going to be dancing. I could barely go to the bathroom. I'm sorry,

that's a lot of information. But it does speak to how incredible that story is. And there are so many of

these. But the most recent story involving a teenager

facing charges after delivering a baby that was wrapped up and stashed away is Lakin Snelling.

So here's the story of Lakin. She's a 21-year-old cheerleader who secretly gave birth, and then police say she wrapped

her baby's body in a towel and then stuffed it into a trash bag, hiding it away in her closet.

Snelling isn't just some random college kid.

She was a senior at the University of Kentucky, and as a cheerleader, she was on the stunt team.

She was the kind of girl that, you know, you picture her smiling at pep rallies.

You don't picture someone like this standing in a courtroom accused of hiding the body of her dead baby.

But here's what police say happened.

On August 27th, they got a call to a Lexington home,

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