S1 E3: Baby Hope: A Colder Case

Break in the Case

New York Citiy Police Department

True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For two decades, detectives struggled with the Baby Hope case. One day, a tip was called in that changed everything.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the third episode of Breaking the Case, True Stories by NYPD Detectives.
0:07.2	A podcast series written and produced by the New York City Police Department and supported
0:12.0	by the New York City Police Foundation.
0:14.4	I'm your host, Detective Carrie Riley.
0:18.0	The Baby Hope case began on July 23rd, 1991, when the body of a small child was found in a cooler on the side of a highway.
0:28.0	They said that there was a body down the hill.
0:31.0	We didn't want the baby to be called the cooler kid.
0:33.4	So Sergeant Ma said, baby hope.
0:36.0	Over the next two years, Detective chased every possible lead.
0:40.1	I remember having this meeting in the office and we all looked at each other and we
0:44.0	says like you know what's there left to do with this and somebody said well let's
0:48.0	could we bury her? Our reporter is Edward Conlan a former detective who worked in the South Bronx.
0:55.0	A warning.
0:56.5	The story contains graphic content and may not be suitable for everyone.
1:01.0	Please be advised.
1:03.4	Episode 3, Baby Hope, a colder case.
1:08.6	As the years went by, things got a lot better in Washington Heights.
1:12.9	Crime peaked in 1991 with 122 homicides in the precinct.
1:18.0	The next year was a hundred, 76 the year after that.
1:22.1	In 1994, the great change in policing began with Comstead at the center of things.
1:28.0	Comstead is the NYPD's data-driven crime-fighting and accountability system.
1:34.7	By the end of 95, there would be only 40 murders in Washington Heights and Inwood.
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