UK Beauty Queen Charged in Death of Newborn Drops out of School as Ex Takes a DNA Test | Crime Alert 6AM 09.08.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Former boyfriend of cheerleader Laken Snelling submits DNA to authorities following the discovery of her deceased newborn in a trash bag.
16 year-old accused in stabbing death of 14-year-old after an argument of a PlayStation.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. |
| 0:03.2 | Straight out to Nicole Parton for the latest. |
| 0:06.1 | Nancy, an ex-boyfriend of Lakin Snelling, a cheerleader at the University of Kentucky, |
| 0:11.4 | is undergoing DNA testing to establish whether he is the father of a newborn found dead in her closet last month. |
| 0:20.0 | Isaiah Hall, 21, who previously dated Snelling, provided |
| 0:24.4 | a DNA sample to authorities as part of the investigation into the baby boy that Snelling is |
| 0:30.6 | accused of concealing in a towel, placing in a trash bag, then hiding in her closet at her off-campus home in Lexington. |
| 0:39.4 | Lexington Police asked him to come and provide a sample, said Justin Smith, the boy's father, |
| 0:45.7 | who declined to comment further, saying, I have no information on this matter, |
| 0:50.0 | and we don't know if Isaiah is the father. |
| 0:53.8 | Hall, a prominent quarterback at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, |
| 0:58.3 | was in a relationship with Snelling before she began dating Connor Jordan, |
| 1:03.5 | a former basketball player, as reported by the Daily Mail. |
| 1:06.7 | The timeline of Hall's relationship with Snelling remains unclear, and he did not disclose when they broke up. |
| 1:15.3 | The father said, I prefer not to discuss this in detail at this time. |
| 1:19.6 | Snelling, who played basketball at King University in Tennessee, appeared in several of Snelling's social media posts leading up to her arrest on August 31. |
| 1:29.5 | It is unknown when they started dating, and he has since removed his social media profiles following |
| 1:35.5 | the arrest. Snelling faces charges, including concealing the birth of a child, |
| 1:41.1 | tempering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse to which she has pleaded not guilty. |
| 1:46.1 | The incoming senior who participated in the stunt team was arrested after police received reports |
| 1:52.3 | of an unresponsive infant at her home. |
| 1:55.4 | She allegedly confessed to authorities that she attempted to hide the birth by cleaning up the scene and disposing of |
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