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BABY JANE DOE: F, newborn, found in Frenchville, ME gravel pit
- 7 December 1985 *ARREST*
By: Akoya Date: March 21, 2020, 7:38 am
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A full-term newborn girl was delivered and left to die at a
Frenchville gravel pit. A Siberian Husky named Paca discovered
the infant's frozen body and carried her to its owners home,
less than a quarter of a mile away. The infant's umbilical cord
was still attached.
Investigators established that the baby was born at the gravel
pit on an access road near the intersection of Route 1 and
Pelletier Avenue. The baby was abandoned in temperatures that
fell to 30 degrees below zero. Experts state that she could not
have lived longer than 30 minutes in such temperatures. Based
upon tire tracks found at the scene, investigators believe the
car was small. They do not know if the mother drove herself or
was driven but boot prints were found in the snow with blood.
Investigators suspect that the mother may be Canadian.
It is unknown where the infant's remains are today.
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Re: BABY JANE DOE: F, newborn, found in Frenchville, ME gravel
pit - 7 December 1985
By: Akoya Date: March 21, 2020, 7:44 am
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HTML https://identifyus.org/en/cases/15152
NamUs UP # 15152
ME/C Case Number: 1985-1123
Aroostook County, Maine
to year old White Female
Case Report - NamUs UP # 15152
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number 1985-1123
Date found December 07, 1985 12:15
Date created May 19, 2016 15:23
Date last modified June 01, 2017 08:16
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed
Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Phone 207-624-7185
Case Manager
Name Lindsey Chasteen
Phone 207-624-7188
Demographics
Estimated age Infant
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) 6, Measured
Height (inches) 18, Measured
Body Parts Inventory (Check all that apply)
All parts recovered
Body conditions
Recognizable face
Probable year of death 1985 to 1985
Circumstances
Location Found
GPS coordinates
Address 1 Bouchard Road Gravel Pit
Address 2
City Frenchville
State Maine
Zip code
County Aroostook
Circumstances
A full-term newborn girl was delivered and left to die at a
Frenchville gravel pit. A Siberian Husky discovered the infant's
frozen body and carried her to its owner's home, less than a
quarter of a mile away. The infant's umbilical cord was still
attached.
Investigators established that the baby was born at the gravel
pit on an access road near the intersection of Route 1 and
Pelletier Avenue. The baby was abandoned in temperatures that
fell to 30 degrees below zero. Experts state that she could not
have lived longer than 30 minutes in such temperatures. Based
upon tire tracks found at the scene, investigators believe the
car was small. They do not know if the mother drove herself or
was driven but boot prints were found in the snow with blood.
Investigators suspect that the mother may be Canadian.
Fingerprints
Status: Fingerprint information is currently not available
Clothing and Accessories
No clothing or accessories
Dental
Status: Dental information / charting is currently not available
DNA
Status: Sample available - Not yet submitted
Images
There are currently no images available for this case.
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Re: BABY JANE DOE: F, newborn, found in Frenchville, ME gravel
pit - 7 December 1985
By: Akoya Date: March 21, 2020, 7:51 am
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Case File: 1067UFME
The Doe Network
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Unidentified Female
Date of Discovery: December 7, 1985
Location of Discovery: Frenchville, Aroostook County, Maine
Estimated Date of Death: Same day
State of Remains: Recognizable
Cause of Death: Homicide by exposure
Physical Description
** Listed information is approximate
Estimated Age: Newborn
Race: Unknown
Gender: Female
Height: Unknown
Weight: 6 lbs. 8 oz.
Hair Color: Reddish blonde.
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Dentals: Not available.
Fingerprints: Not available.
DNA: Unknown
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: None.
Jewelry: None.
Additional Personal Items: None.
Case History
A full-term newborn girl was delivered and left to die at a
Frenchville gravel pit. A Siberian Husky named Paca discovered
the infant's frozen body and carried her to its owners home,
less than a quarter of a mile away. The infant's umbilical cord
was still attached.
Investigators established that the baby was born at the gravel
pit on an access road near the intersection of Route 1 and
Pelletier Avenue. The baby was abandoned in temperatures that
fell to 30 degrees below zero. Experts state that she could not
have lived longer than 30 minutes in such temperatures. Based
upon tire tracks found at the scene, investigators believe the
car was small. They do not know if the mother drove herself or
was driven but boot prints were found in the snow with blood.
Investigators suspect that the mother may be Canadian.
It is unknown where the infant's remains are today.
Investigating Agency(s)
If you have any information about this case please contact;
Agency Name: Maine State Police
Agency Contact Person: Troop F
Agency Phone Number: 800-924-2261 or 207-532-5400
Agency Name: Maine State Police
Agency Contact Person: Criminal Investigation Division III
Agency Phone Number: 800-432-7381 or 207-941-4071
Agency Case Number: Unknown
NCIC Case Number: N/A
NamUs Case Number: Not listed
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with
information regarding this case.
Information Source(s)
Maine State Police
Bangor Daily News Archive
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Re: BABY JANE DOE: F, newborn, found in Frenchville, ME gravel
pit - 7 December 1985
By: Akoya Date: March 21, 2020, 7:54 am
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After nearly three decades, the case of Baby Jane Doe still
haunts Maine couple, investigators
By Julia Bayly and Jen Lynds, BDN Staff
Posted March 21, 2014, at 3:43 p.m.
Last modified March 22, 2014, at 4:58 p.m.
FRENCHVILLE, Maine — Although a little over 28 years have passed
and retired Maine State Police Maj. Charles Love has long since
put away his badge and gun, he can still remember the sights and
sounds on that December morning after the child he would know
only as Baby Jane Doe was born and subsequently abandoned in a
Frenchville gravel pit.
Baby Jane Doe has been at the center of a cold case ever since a
dog named Paca first discovered the newborn and carried her back
to the home of its owners, Armand and Lorraine Pelletier, less
than a quarter mile away.
“It was so cold, just very, very cold,” Love recalled from his
home in Winthrop recently. “I was not the first officer on the
scene, but I was one of the earliest. I was walking the scene,
trying to gather information. It was so quiet in that gravel
pit, and it appeared that a vehicle had driven in, as the tracks
were very clear in the snow. Right near them were plainly a set
of dog tracks. I turned and followed those paw prints right back
to the house, where it had dropped the baby right by the door.”
Three decades and countless hours of investigation later, the
case still has more questions than answers.
Who was the mother? What circumstances led her to that gravel
pit to deliver — and then abandon — her own baby on Dec. 7,
1985?
Why did no one ever come forward with information on a woman who
had been pregnant and then suddenly childless?
Where did the mother go after the birth, and how did she avoid
being seen?
A frozen little baby
“In this case and like in so many old cases, there are people
who are aware and want to see the truth come out,” Sgt. Darren
Crane with the Maine State Police major crimes unit, said
recently. “Every once in awhile a phone call or other
information comes in, and we work it.”
Crane is now the lead investigator on the case.
At the time, then Maine State Police Detective Arnold Gahagan
was the lead investigator. Now retired, Gahagan declined to
comment for this story, given the open status of the cold case.
At some point in the early morning hours of Saturday, Dec. 7,
1985, a woman delivered a full-term baby girl on a gravel pit
access road near the intersection of U.S. Route 1 and Pelletier
Avenue in Frenchville and then drove — or was driven — away,
leaving the infant behind as temperatures dipped well below
zero.
That’s where Paca, a Siberian Husky belonging to the Pelletiers,
became the catalyst for the investigation that followed.
At the time, the Pelletiers lived on what was called Bouchard
Road, roughly 700 feet from the access road.
“This is something you don’t forget,” Armand Pelletier said
during a recent interview from the couple’s home in Bangor.
“I remember it like it was yesterday,” Lorraine Pelletier said.
Armand Pelletier recalled how that morning he had let the family
dog out and, not long after, Paca was back at the sliding glass
door, trying to get their attention.
“She kept pounding at the door’s window to get back in,” Armand
Pelletier said. “She kept pounding, and after awhile, I went to
go look, and I could not believe what I saw. I saw what looked
like a little rag doll, but then we saw it was a frozen little
baby.”
Lorraine Pelletier remembers “a cute little girl with reddish
blond hair” that they were later told weighed 6 pounds, 8
ounces.
“It was 30 below [zero] that night,” Lorraine Pelletier said.
“What [officials] told us was she could not have lived more than
30 minutes.”
The Pelletiers believe the cries of the infant or its scent led
Paca right to her.
“Paca carried her so carefully by her head right to our back
steps,” Lorraine Pelletier said.
Copies of the state medical examiner’s report were not
immediately available, and the current whereabouts of Baby Jane
Doe’s body could not be determined. Authorities cited the open
investigation and noted that any files associated with the case
were not easily accessible due to the amount of time that has
passed since the incident.
In 1985, investigators told the Pelletiers that any wounds
caused by Paca in no way contributed to the baby’s death.
“There were some wounds in her head, but they were completely
superficial,” Aroostook County Sheriff James Madore said on a
recent visit to the scene. “The dog did nothing to hurt that
little baby.”
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Re: BABY JANE DOE: F, newborn, found in Frenchville, ME gravel
pit - 7 December 1985
By: Akoya Date: March 21, 2020, 7:57 am
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‘We just don’t know’
Madore was a state trooper at the time and remembers responding
to the Pelletiers’ call nearly 30 years ago.
“I remember that call coming in that a dog had brought a baby to
a home,” Madore said. “It was a baby with the umbilical cord and
everything.”
Madore said law enforcement officials were able to track the
dog’s path back to the scene of the baby’s birth, where media
reports from the time said frozen blood and footprints were
discovered.
“I remember it being not far off the road,” Madore said. “It had
to have happened when it was dark because it would have been in
plain view otherwise.”
It was unclear if the mother was alone at the time, but Madore
said evidence at the scene did suggest she may have held on to
the hood or trunk of a car while delivering the baby.
“Would someone be able to do that and then be capable of driving
herself away?” he said. “We just don’t know.”
While unsure of the number of hours spent on the case, Crane
said last week that the initial investigation was exhaustive,
despite the fact law enforcement had little solid information.
Love, who was at the time a state police sergeant, agreed.
“We were working with the media, but we really had nothing to
feed them because we literally had nothing,” he said. “We were
telling people to be on the lookout for people shopping for
items that could be used to control heavy bleeding, but that
never amounted to anything. At the time, we were very concerned
about the health of the mother, the woman who gave birth to the
baby. We thought that she would have had to seek treatment
somewhere, but again, that didn’t come to anything, either.”
Police questioned a couple who had been spotted in a local
department store around the time of the incident, Crane said.
The woman, he said, reportedly had blood on her pants and was
acting “distressed.”
Police immediately released a composite sketch of the couple to
the media.
Citing the nature of the investigation, Crane could not divulge
specifics, but the Pelletiers remember a couple matching that
description coming forward and being cleared.
“It turned out the woman was in a department store shopping and
had just gotten her period,” Lorraine Pelletier said. “They were
Canadians, and they came forward, and they were ruled out as
suspects by the police.”
Puzzle pieces
Other than a description of a small car based on tire tracks
found at the scene, police had very little evidence, and the
trail went cold.
But officials are not giving up.
“Anytime new information comes in that we can work and
investigate, that is what we do,” Crane said.
He has no doubt there is someone out there who holds the key to
the mystery.
“There are people who care and who want the truth to come out,”
he said. “It’s like a puzzle, and we keep trying to put the
pieces together, [and] I always believe there is someone out
there with the right information and that missing piece.”
Improved technology, including DNA screening, could come into
play if the right piece of evidence is discovered, Crane said.
The Pelletiers, now in their early 60s, are left to wonder if
that missing puzzle piece is the mother herself.
“Down the road, she may come forward,” Lorraine Pelletier said.
“If she was say 20 at the time, now she is in her 50s and she is
facing problems, those problems could come from ‘I left my baby
to die.’”
And why, the Pelletiers wonder, did she not seek other options?
“We don’t have children,” Lorraine Pelletier said. “We could
never have children, [and] what I don’t understand is why if the
woman did not want her baby, she did not ring our bell, leave
the baby on our steps and just run away.”
Armand agreed, adding softly, “If she had lived, we could have
adopted her.”
The Pelletiers moved to Bangor in the summer of 1986, and Paca
lived to be 12-years-old, dying of cancer in 1987.
There is no statute of limitations affecting the incident, Crane
said, and, if identified, those involved could be facing
homicide or manslaughter charges.
“It would be up to the [Maine] attorney general,” he said.
Deputy Attorney General Bill Stokes said Tuesday that the case
remains open and is still under investigation. Because of that,
all case files and investigative records that are in the
possession of the attorney general’s office remain confidential
and cannot be released to the public.
“I don’t know if this case will ever be solved,” Madore said.
“Some cases are just unsolvable, [but] certainly you have to
wonder if there is a woman out there, and if she is still alive,
is her conscience bothering her.”
Even though he retired from the state police in 2003 after
joining in 1970, Love said the case “is always in the back of my
mind.”
“I was just asking one of the Aroostook County detectives about
it about a year and a half ago,” he said. “It’s just one of
those you always wonder about, how that could have happened and
who could have done something like that.”
The years have done nothing to lessen the impact of the incident
for the Pelletiers.
“I think of it all the time, especially every December or when
we see a husky dog,” Lorraine Pelletier said. “It is something
in our life that will never leave us.”
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the
Maine State Police, Troop F, at 800-924-2261 or 532-5400.
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Re: BABY JANE DOE: F, newborn, found in Frenchville, ME gravel
pit - 7 December 1985
By: Akoya Date: March 21, 2020, 7:59 am
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Baby Jane Doe – “A woman drove into a gravel pit in Frenchville,
Maine in 1985, got out of her vehicle and proceeded to give
birth to a baby girl. She then carried the living baby into the
woods and left her there. It was extremely cold, and bootprints
were observed frozen into the blood left on the ground. A
Siberian Husky later found the infant and carried it home to
it’s owner. The infant died of exposure, and was not harmed by
the Husky. The mother has never been located, and it is
suspected she is from Canada.”
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Re: BABY JANE DOE: F, newborn, found in Frenchville, ME gravel
pit - 7 December 1985
By: Akoya Date: March 21, 2020, 8:01 am
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Baby Jane Doe
Case date: 1985
Town: Frenchville
A woman drove into a gravel pit in Frenchville, Maine in 1985,
got out of her vehicle and proceeded to give birth to a baby
girl. She then carried the living baby into the woods and left
her there. It was extremely cold, and bootprints were observed
frozen into the blood left on the ground. A Siberian Husky later
found the infant and carried it home to it's owner. The infant
died of exposure, and was not harmed by the Husky. The mother
has never been located, and it is suspected she is from Canada.
Criminal Investigation Division III, 106 Hogan Road, Bangor,
Maine 04401. (207) 941-4071 or toll free 1-800-432-7381.
HTML http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index....ticle-homicides
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Re: BABY JANE DOE: F, newborn, found in Frenchville, ME gravel
pit - 7 December 1985
By: Akoya Date: March 21, 2020, 8:03 am
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Investigators established that the baby was born at the gravel
pit on an access road near the intersection of Route 1 and
Pelletier Avenue.
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Pelletier Ave, Frenchville, ME 04745
Pelletier Ave, Frenchville, ME
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Re: BABY JANE DOE: F, newborn, found in Frenchville, ME gravel
pit - 7 December 1985
By: Akoya Date: March 21, 2020, 8:07 am
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After nearly three decades, the case of Baby Jane Doe still
haunts ...
Bangor Daily
Aroostook County Sheriff James Madore was a state trooper when
he responded to the call
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Aroostook County Sheriff James Madore recalls responding to the
Baby Jane Doe case in Frenchville as a state trooper in 1985.
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Re: BABY JANE DOE: F, newborn, found in Frenchville, ME gravel
pit - 7 December 1985
By: Akoya Date: March 21, 2020, 8:09 am
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After nearly three decades, the case of Baby Jane Doe still
haunts ...
Bangor Daily News
Armand and Lorraine Pelletier of Bangor sit with their dog Cody
holding a picture
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