An A&E original podcast.

This episode contains descriptions of violence.

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Outside Bethel, New York, about a mile from where the original Woodstock Festival was held,

is a scrapyard with the typical treasures found in that type of place.

In March of 1989, a Volkswagen was the newest item to be added into the collection.

The owner examined the cars inside and then popped the trunk where he discovered a suitcase.

The owner had dealt with a lot of discarded items in his life,

but never anything like what he found inside that suitcase.

When he unsiped the bag and opened it up,

he found the body of a human baby.

From A&E, this is cold case files.

I recall that the junkyard operator wasn't absolutely certain it was a human fetus when he first discovered it.

And I believe his wife was a registered nurse and And she said, yes, that's a human

fetus called the police.

That was Roy Strever from the New York State Police. He responded to the call made by the

junkyard operator. He learned that the Volkswagen had been abandoned by Diane O'Dell, a local who recently left the area.

The police tractor down in Pennsylvania, Roe Delle said she knew nothing about any dead baby.

Strever was skeptical.

She just flat out denied that it was hers or that having any knowledge as to how it got into the trunk of her vehicle.

Strever went to the area where O'Dell had lived and found a couple who said that they had rented a house to her.

They told the investigator that when O'Dell moved out, she left the suitcase behind.

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