UPDATE: SUSPECTED KILLER FOUND! Newborn baby girl, umbilical cord still attached, dies alone in metal trash drum sucking her thumb for comfort. WHO LEFT HER TO DIE?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Body of an infant baby girl found in a metal trash can. Who left her there? Nancy Grace talks with a panel of experts on an arrest in the case of Baby Jane Doe. Our panel includes: Ashley Wilcott, Judge and trial attorney; Joseph Scott Morgan, Forensic Expert: Dr. Michelle Dupre, Medical Examiner; Shera LaPoint, Genetic Genealogist; Major Wendell Raborn, Iberia Parish Sheriff's office; Catalean Theriot, Comprehensive Victim Intervention Specialist Louisiana 16th Judicial District Attorney's Office; and KADN News 15 Reporter Leigha McNeil

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0:00.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:01.7	I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:04.8	The first time I've ever made a death notification on you after that moment
0:08.6	that I was going to try to be as compassionate as I possibly could.
0:12.0	Because when families are rocked by death,
0:14.9	the only thing they really want are answers.
0:18.1	They ask how, where, it was my job as a death investigator to bring those answers.
0:26.7	Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.4	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:39.2	Authorities arrested 50-year-old Sonja Charles of New Iberia in the death of her baby 25 years ago.
0:48.6	The murder happened on January 24, 1994 in Genaret,
0:53.0	when the newborn girl was found dead in a trash bin at a car wash.
0:57.3	Detectives reopened the case after new leads developed.
1:00.4	From the reexamined evidence detectives found a DNA profile that matched with a family relation.
1:06.8	A DNA sample was taken from Charles and a match was made that identified Charles as the mother of the baby.
1:13.7	Sonja Charles was booked into the Iberia Paras Jail for first degree murder.
1:17.6	No bond has been set.
1:19.2	Wow.
1:20.2	This is unheard of.
1:22.2	First of all, this tiny baby girl left to die and a cold metal drum outside a gas station.
1:33.7	The temperature is dipping through the night.
1:35.8	The little baby was found dead sucking her thumb for comfort.
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