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Cold Case Files

REOPENED: Baby For Sale

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When the burned body of an infant is found in the Arizona desert, investigators search for the child's identity and come up empty-handed. Four years later, officers in another county respond to a tip about a couple who sold their baby daughter in an extortion scheme and ultimately killed her. It doesn't take long for investigators to connect the dots and finally discover the name of their Baby Jane Doe. Check out our great sponsors! SkyLight Frames: Get 10% off, up to $30 off your frame when you go SkylightFrame.com/cold Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 29 million drivers who trust Progressive!

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0:00.0

I see a charred body of a little infant that maybe you're

0:08.2

and a half two years old.

0:09.5

It's not rational, it doesn't make sense.

0:14.6

So why would you come across a burned baby?

0:16.6

I mean we see some strange things out here sometimes,

0:19.2

but you just don't see burned babies later on.

0:22.5

He put the baby on the phone and I just hear her screaming

0:28.0

and crying and crying, you know, calling mama, mama, mama.

0:42.9

In October of 1990, a rancher and his five-year-old son made a gruesome discovery while driving

0:47.7

cattle through the Arizona wilderness.

0:50.7

Laying at the bottom of a ravine was any father's worst nightmare.

0:55.5

The charred remains of what appeared to be a baby girl.

1:00.2

Any murder is a tragedy, but when a child dies violently, investigators in the community

1:06.0

are even more motivated to solve the case.

1:09.4

But as police begin to investigate, they found quite literally nothing, no missing

1:14.3

person report, no evidence, and no suspects.

1:21.3

Police were forced to name the one-year-old child, Baby Jane Doe, and the case with Colt.

1:28.7

That little girl would remain nameless for another six years until a single-tip, lead

1:32.9

investigators straight to her killer's front door.

1:37.3

From A&E, this is Colt Case Files, the podcast.

1:42.3

I'm Brooke, and here's Bill Curtis with the Classic Case, Baby for Sale.

1:51.3

Daybreak in the Desert.

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