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BABY JANE LINCOLN: F, Infant, found inside an old Cedar County h
orse barn - 10 November 1996
By: Akoya Date: July 1, 2020, 10:07 am
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On Sunday morning, November 10, 1996, the body of a newborn
infant was found inside a garbage bag placed in an old horse
barn one mile east of Lisbon, Iowa, in Cedar County.
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Baby Jane Lincoln
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Homicide
Baby Jane (Doe) Lincoln
Case # 96-11840
Lisbon, Iowa (Linn County)
Body Found 1 mile North in Cedar County (Investigating Agency)
November 10, 1996
Case summary compiled by Jody Ewing
On Sunday morning, November 10, 1996, the body of a newborn
infant was found inside a garbage bag placed in an old horse
barn one mile east of Lisbon, Iowa, in Cedar County. Clair
Wilson — a retired Quaker Oats employee — discovered the bag on
the floor near a horse stall while moving lumber into the
40-by-75-foot barn around 10 a.m. Sunday.
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Re: BABY JANE LINCOLN: F, Infant, found inside an old Cedar Coun
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By: Akoya Date: July 1, 2020, 10:11 am
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Cedar County Sheriff Keith Whitlatch checks the area near a barn
where a dead infant was left Sunday morning, Nov. 10, 1996.
Clair Wilson found the baby girl’s body mid-morning.
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The white barn faced the farmhouse where Wilson lived with his
son and daughter-in-law, Tim and Debbie Wilson, and their
15-year-old son, Luke.
Wilson, not believing what he found, brought the bag to the
house’s patio. The infant’s body lay inside a smaller white
plastic shopping bag — its handles tied — that had then been
placed in a black plastic open garbage sack. The red printed
letters on the white bag’s exterior said “Thanks for Shopping
here,” with the “T” and “S” in uppercase letters.
No movement or sound came from the bag, which Wilson estimated
weighed about 8 or 9 pounds.
The Wilsons did not touch the baby or take her out of the bag,
but said it was obvious the infant was dead.
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By: Akoya Date: July 1, 2020, 10:13 am
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Tim Wilson
“Christ … I knew this wasn’t garbage.”
Despite freezing temperatures, the body wasn’t frozen, which led
the Wilsons to believe the baby had been in the barn only a
short time.
State Medical Examiner Thomas Bennett said the baby girl was
alive at birth and lived a few minutes, but likely died of
exposure. No other cause of death could be determined.
Using body temperature, detectives estimated the baby could have
been placed in the barn as late as 6 a.m. the morning Wilson
found her. The family kept machinery inside the barn, along with
a number of cats.
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Re: BABY JANE LINCOLN: F, Infant, found inside an old Cedar Coun
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By: Akoya Date: July 1, 2020, 10:14 am
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A spray of artificial flowers lies in the snow near the entrance
to the barn where Baby Jane Lincoln was found Nov. 10 on the
Clair and Tim Wilson farm along Highway 30 about one mile east
of Lisbon.
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By: Akoya Date: July 1, 2020, 10:15 am
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Someone Familiar with Highway 30
The night before, Luke Wilson had been the last to go to bed
shortly after midnight.
Flowers near entrance to Lisbon barn Courtesy photo L.W. Ward
A spray of artificial flowers lies in the snow near the entrance
to the barn where Baby Jane Lincoln was found Nov. 10 on the
Clair and Tim Wilson farm along Highway 30 about one mile east
of Lisbon.
Tim Wilson said the family’s black Labrador began barking a few
hours later.
“He was barking his head off between 2:30 and 3, but we came to
the conclusion that was probably our paper being delivered,” Tim
Wilson told the Gazette.
Cedar County Sheriff Keith Whitlatch dubbed the girl “Baby Jane
Lincoln” after the Lincoln Highway, the historic name for US
Highway 30 near the barn where she was found.
Whitlatch said many stores used the “Thanks for Shopping here”
bag, but believed the girl’s parents were from Cedar County or a
nearby area. “Someone familiar with Highway 30,” he said.
The sheriff asked people to think about those they knew who’d
been pregnant and then suddenly weren’t pregnant around November
10. Hospitals across the state also were asked to report on any
unexplained admissions.
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Re: BABY JANE LINCOLN: F, Infant, found inside an old Cedar Coun
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By: Akoya Date: July 1, 2020, 10:18 am
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By: Akoya Date: July 1, 2020, 10:19 am
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Second Baby Found in Three Months
Just three months earlier, Whitlatch had investigated a similar
case where a newborn girl was discovered in a toilet at the Brea
Z Lake Campground southeast of Tipton. The baby’s mother — just
12 years old — was not charged. That infant, too, had been alive
at birth but died of exposure.
Baby Jane Doe Lincoln's gravesiteCedar Rapids Gazette photo by
Buzz Orr
Flowers cover the grave site of Baby Jane Lincoln at the New
Horizon Cemetery near Tipton.
“Here’s another baby that’s never going to cry,” Whitlatch told
the Gazette about the Lisbon infant.
Whitlatch also organized a funeral service for the baby girl.
The Fry Funeral Home in Tipton handled the arrangements for the
November 14 service. Owners David and Janet Fry donated a
portion of the costs, and the Rev. Frank Heubner of Cedar Street
Baptist Church volunteered to conduct the rites.
That Thursday, about two dozen people gathered at the New
Horizon Cemetery in a rarely used, county owned burial plot
north of Tipton.
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By: Akoya Date: July 1, 2020, 10:20 am
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Baby Jane Lincoln is buried in the County Home Cemetery in Cedar
County, Iowa. Her identity remains unknown.
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