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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 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 on the zip 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 she said yes that's a human fetus

called the police. That was Roy Streever 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 Diana Del,

a local who recently left the area. The police tracked her down in Pennsylvania,

Roe Del said she knew nothing about any dead baby. Streever 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. Streever 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. When the couple discovered what was inside,

they called O'Dell instead of police and asked her to pick up the case. Streever then talked with O'Dell

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