S1 E1: Baby Hope: Into the Woods

Break in the Case

New York Citiy Police Department

True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A gruesome discovery by a road crew in Washington Heights sends the 34th Precinct Detective Squad on a hunt for a little girl's identity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Break in the Case. True stories by NYPD detectives. A podcast series written and produced by the New York City Police Department and supported by the New York City Police Foundation.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Detective Carrie Riley.
0:16.2	You might remember some of the stories we're about to tell you from the news.
0:20.1	We're taking you inside the investigations.
0:22.6	You'll learn how the job gets done in the words of the men and women of the NYPD.
0:26.8	Our first story is the Baby Hope case from 1991.
0:34.0	It's about the murder of a four-year-old girl whose body was found in a cooler
0:39.0	on the side of a highway.
0:41.0	Detectives from the 34th precinct decided to call her baby. of a
0:43.0	high
0:50.0	high detectives from the 34th precinct decided to call her baby hope.
0:46.0	And it would be many, many years
0:49.0	before they found out her true name.
0:51.0	Our reporter is Edward Conlin, a former NYPD detective who worked in the 44th
0:56.7	Precinct Detective Squad in the South Bronx. A warning, this story contains graphic content and may not be suitable for everyone.
1:06.0	Please be advised.
1:08.0	This is the first of five parts to the story.
1:12.0	Episode 1, Baby Hope, Into the Woods.
1:19.2	Inwood is all the way uptown, the last stop on the A train. It's at the top of Manhattan, the narrow tip of the
1:25.6	island where the Harlem and Hudson rivers meet. Not much more than a hundred
1:31.6	years ago, the city looked like the country here, and it can still feel wild.
1:36.0	Inwood Hill Park is almost 200 acres.
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