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GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE ABBY (2007): NF, newborn, found at Lak
e Pepin, MN - 26 March 2007
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 4:19 pm
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The body of a newborn girl was found March 26, 2007 at the
Treasure Island Marina in Welch, Minnesota.
This is one of three cases of newborns found in the county in 8
years. In 1999, a boater found the body of a newborn girl near a
marina in Red Wing and in 2003, the body of a newborn boy was
found near Frontenac. In all three cases, investigators believed
that the infants were born alive. Autopsies were never able to
ascertain causes of death.
Investigators have stated that this infant may not have the same
mother as the other two.
The girl has been nicknamed "Abby".
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE ABBY (2007): NF, newborn, found at
Lake Pepin, MN - 26 March 2007
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 4:22 pm
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HTML https://identifyus.org/en/cases/4796
NamUs UP # 4796
ME/C Case Number: GC07-39
Goodhue County, Minnesota
0 to 1 year old White Female
Case Report - NamUs UP # 4796
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number GC07-39
Date found March 26, 2007 12:44
Date created February 09, 2009 11:34
Date last modified February 22, 2017 08:25
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed June 20, 2011 13:51
Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency Southern Minnesota Regional ME Office
Phone 507-284-2121
Case Manager
Name Lindsey Thomas
Phone 612-215-6334
Demographics
Estimated age Infant
Minimum age 0 years
Maximum age 1 years
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) 6, Measured
Height (inches) 21, Measured
Body Parts Inventory (Check all that apply)
All parts recovered
Body conditions
Not recognizable - Decomposing/putrefaction
Probable year of death 2007 to 2007
Circumstances
Location Found
GPS coordinates
Address 1 Treasure Island Marina
Address 2
City Red Wing
State Minnesota
Zip code 55066
County Goodhue
Circumstances
The infant was found in the Buffalo Slough of the Mississippi
River at the Treasure Island Marina (Slip 36, Dock C). The
infant was near term/term with no apparent congenital
abnormalities. The infant appears to be of Caucasian descent and
not a member of the Prairie Island tribe. Estimated time of
being in the water was from a few weeks from discovery of the
body to the previous fall or winter (2006).
Physical
Hair color Black
Head hair
Black, 3cm in length
Body hair
Facial hair
Left eye color
Right eye color
Eye description
The color of the irides cannot be ascertained due to
decomposition.
No other distinctive body features
No clothing or accessories
Dental
Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered
DNA
Status: Sample submitted - Tests complete
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE ABBY (2007): NF, newborn, found at
Lake Pepin, MN - 26 March 2007
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 4:24 pm
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HTML http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/102ufmn.html
The Doe Network:
Case File 102UFMN
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Reconstruction of Victim by NCMEC
Unidentified Female
Discovered on March 26, 2007 in Welch, Goodhue County, Minnesota
Estimated Date of Death: Up to six months prior
Vital Statistics
Estimated age: Newborn
Approximate Height and Weight: 21 inches; 6 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: There is as much as a 70 percent
chance that the baby is of Native decent. Straight, dark hair.
Case History
The body of a newborn girl was found March 26, 2007 at the
Treasure Island Marina in Welch, Minnesota.
This is one of three cases of newborns found in the county in 8
years. In 1999, a boater found the body of a newborn girl near a
marina in Red Wing and in 2003, the body of a newborn boy was
found near Frontenac. In all three cases, investigators believed
that the infants were born alive. Autopsies were never able to
ascertain causes of death.
Investigators have stated that this infant may not have the same
mother as the other two.
The girl has been nicknamed "Abby".
Forensic artists from the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children used photographs of the bodies and the
infants' skull measurements to create composite drawings of what
the babies might have looked like at the time of their deaths.
The clothing in the drawings is not connected to the
investigation.
Authorities think the composites could help piece together a
frustrating puzzle. Over the years they have had more than 100
leads, yet the investigations remain unsolved.
Officials believe that mothers of the children may have hidden
their pregnancies and are probably familiar with the area.
Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Goodhue County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Dean Albers
651-385-3155
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.
Source Information:
WCCO
NamUs UP #4796
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE ABBY (2007): NF, newborn, found at
Lake Pepin, MN - 26 March 2007
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 4:25 pm
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Goodhue County, Minn.
Infant's body likely in river for months
Sheriff widens investigation; couple will provide for burial
BY JOHN BREWER and RHODA FUKUSHIMA
Pioneer Press
Article Last Updated: 03/27/2007 11:33:03 PM CDT
The body of a newborn girl likely drifted in the Mississippi
River for months before she was found Monday near the Treasure
Island Resort Casino marina, according to the Goodhue County
sheriff's office.
An initial autopsy report did not reveal the cause of the girl's
death.
Scott McNurlin, chief deputy for the county, said the girl had
been in the water since late fall or early winter. Injuries to
the body, including broken bones, likely happened in the river.
"It changes the whole focus of the investigation," McNurlin
said. Initially, investigators were looking for leads from
within the past few weeks related to the dumping of the body.
Now, they will expand that timeframe.
The discovery Monday marks the third time in eight years that a
newborn's body has turned up on the banks of the Mississippi in
Goodhue County.
In 1999, a boater found a newborn girl near a marina in Red
Wing. And in 2003, a newborn boy was found near Frontenac.
NNeither child was ever identified, nor was a cause of death
determined. The sheriff's office is forming a task force to
review the incidents. The group will include agencies from
Wisconsin, Dakota County, the city of Red Wing, the Minnesota
Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the FBI.
McNurlin said finding three bodies in the same stretch of river
- albeit over an eight-year span - is "certainly an anomaly."
"It's a stretch of 15 miles, and we have three of these
incidents. It's just unbelievable," McNurlin said.
Investigators don't know whether the three incidents are
related. Any DNA tests would require a sample from a parent for
comparison.
No parents have been identified in any of the cases.
McNurlin added that it was strange that the latest baby appeared
to have been born healthy yet wasn't turned over to a hospital
or government agency for care.
"That's the difficulty for the community and ourselves here. It
appears to be a full-term baby," he said.
Safe Place For Newborns / Laure Krupp, executive director of
Safe Place for Newborns, said the death is an unnecessary
tragedy.
Under the Safe Place for Newborns law, enacted in April 2003, a
mother or immediate family member of a newborn can place the
unharmed child into the hands of a hospital employee on hospital
grounds with complete anonymity during the first three days of
the child's life.
Minnesota was the third state to adopt such legislation. Now, 47
states have similar laws.
According to Krupp, at least a dozen babies have been turned
over to hospitals in Minnesota since the law took effect.
Hospitals are not required to report when a child is turned
over, and the state does not collect information about children
turned in under the law.
Krupp said her group has compiled numbers by polling hospitals,
and it gets the word out about the law by informing health care
providers, schools and social service agencies.
"We wanted one more alternative to a mother placing her child in
a river or a trash can," Krupp said. "Sadly, there are times
people know of resources but choose not to use them."
Laying Baby Doe To Rest / Jeanne Madtson wishes the mother of
the latest baby had taken advantage of the law. The Red Wing
woman and her husband, Don, have stepped forward to provide
burial for the abandoned girl - just as they did with the other
two babies found in the river.
Pending approval of authorities, the Madtsons hope to lay the
baby to rest in their family plot at Oakwood Cemetery. They
buried their stillborn daughter, Ann Marie, there in 1989.
"One baby is bad enough," Jeanne Madtson said. "Then, you get
two. And now three. This is just unreal. It's heartbreaking."
Madtson said she worries about the precedent.
"It's like people know 'if we drop them (babies) in the river at
Red Wing, someone will take care of them,' " she said. "That's
not what I want. I don't want to keep burying dead babies."
In the past, the couple received donations of money and services
that helped defray burial costs, which came to about $1,200 to
$1,500 in 2004, Don Madtson said. They donated the remaining
proceeds to the Goodhue County sheriff's office.
"It didn't even cross my mind that this could happen again,"
Jeanne Madtson said.
John Brewer can be reached at 651-228-2093 or
jbrewer@pioneerpress.com.
More Information
The Goodhue County sheriff's office will hold a news conference
on the cases at 11 a.m. today at the county law enforcement
center, 430 W. Sixth St., Red Wing.
Anyone with information about any of the cases can call the
sheriff's office at 651-385-3155.
"We wanted one more alternative to a mother placing her child in
a river or a trash can. Sadly, there are times people know of
resources but choose not to use them."
Laure Krupp, executive director, Safe Place for Newborns
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE ABBY (2007): NF, newborn, found at
Lake Pepin, MN - 26 March 2007
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 4:33 pm
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Images of Red Wing infants reconstructed
Last update: February 8, 2008 - 11:37 PM
RED WING, MINN. - The Goodhue County Sheriff's Office has
released composite images of three infants found dead along the
Mississippi River from 1999 to 2007, hoping they will spur new
leads in cases that have stymied investigators for years.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children created
the images, which represent how the babies might have appeared
in their first year. Forensic artists prepared the images based
on photos that local authorities took.
"We're trying to do everything in our power and trying to think
outside the box on solving this case," Sheriff's Capt. Pat
Thompson told the Red Wing Republican Eagle.
Sheriff Dean Albers said he hopes one of the images might spark
a memory for someone who could provide investigators with new
information.
In 1999, two fishermen spotted a baby girl's body floating near
Bay Point Park. Four years later, a group of teenagers
discovered the body of a newborn boy along the water in Old
Frontenac, Minn., and last year, two workers at a Prairie Island
marina found another body of a baby girl.
Authorities believe the babies found in 1999 and 2003 probably
came from the same mother. They don't believe the baby found
last year is related to the first two.
Thompson said the Sheriff's Office has developed about 100
leads, and said investigators are currently working on what he
called a promising lead.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE ABBY (2007): NF, newborn, found at
Lake Pepin, MN - 26 March 2007
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 4:34 pm
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New Pictures in Red Wing Baby Cases
(KAAL)--- New pictures released today may bring investigators
one-step closer to solving the cases of three babies, thrown
into the Mississippi River.
Over the last eight years, three infants have been found dead in
the waters of the river, but how they got there, and who's to
blame is still a mystery.
Now pictures of what these children used to look like may help
solve the case.
The pictures show the faces of the three babies found dead in
the Mississippi River.
"The pictures make you stop and pause and take a look...it
actually put more of a human face on it than when we found their
remains before," said Goodhue County Sheriff Dean Albers.
The forensic drawings, put together by the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children, are based on the human remains
of the infants found dead along the river within the last 8
years.
One infant female was found in 1999 in Red Wing.
The second baby, a boy was found in and the last baby, another
female was found just last March at Treasure Island Marina.
Sheriff Albers says they have a new lead.
Earlier in the week they received a tip that someone may be
linked to one of the cases.
They took DNA samples from that person and they expect to get
results within 2-3 weeks.
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE ABBY (2007): NF, newborn, found at
Lake Pepin, MN - 26 March 2007
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 4:36 pm
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Goodhue County, Minn. / Infant’s body likely in river for months
By JOHN BREWER | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: March 27, 2007 at 11:01 pm |
The body of a newborn girl likely drifted in the Mississippi
River for months before she was found Monday near the Treasure
Island Resort Casino marina, according to the Goodhue County
sheriff’s office.
An initial autopsy report did not reveal the cause of the girl’s
death.
Scott McNurlin, chief deputy for the county, said the girl had
been in the water since late fall or early winter. Injuries to
the body, including broken bones, likely happened in the river.
“It changes the whole focus of the investigation,” McNurlin
said. Initially, investigators were looking for leads from
within the past few weeks related to the dumping of the body.
Now, they will expand that timeframe.
The discovery Monday marks the third time in eight years that a
newborn’s body has turned up on the banks of the Mississippi in
Goodhue County.
In 1999, a boater found a newborn girl near a marina in Red
Wing. And in 2003, a newborn boy was found near Frontenac.
NNeither child was ever identified, nor was a cause of death
determined. The sheriff’s office is forming a task force to
review the incidents. The group will include agencies from
Wisconsin, Dakota County, the city of Red Wing, the Minnesota
Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the FBI.
McNurlin said finding three bodies in the same stretch of river
– albeit over an eight-year span – is “certainly an anomaly.”
“It’s a stretch of 15 miles, and we have three of these
incidents. It’s just unbelievable,” McNurlin said.
Investigators don’t know whether the three incidents are
related. Any DNA tests would require a sample from a parent for
comparison.
No parents have been identified in any of the cases.
McNurlin added that it was strange that the latest baby appeared
to have been born healthy yet wasn’t turned over to a hospital
or government agency for care.
“That’s the difficulty for the community and ourselves here. It
appears to be a full-term baby,” he said.
Safe Place For Newborns / Laure Krupp, executive director of
Safe Place for Newborns, said the death is an unnecessary
tragedy.
Under the Safe Place for Newborns law, enacted in April 2003, a
mother or immediate family member of a newborn can place the
unharmed child into the hands of a hospital employee on hospital
grounds with complete anonymity during the first three days of
the child’s life.
Minnesota was the third state to adopt such legislation. Now, 47
states have similar laws.
According to Krupp, at least a dozen babies have been turned
over to hospitals in Minnesota since the law took effect.
Hospitals are not required to report when a child is turned
over, and the state does not collect information about children
turned in under the law.
Krupp said her group has compiled numbers by polling hospitals,
and it gets the word out about the law by informing health care
providers, schools and social service agencies.
“We wanted one more alternative to a mother placing her child in
a river or a trash can,” Krupp said. “Sadly, there are times
people know of resources but choose not to use them.”
Laying Baby Doe To Rest / Jeanne Madtson wishes the mother of
the latest baby had taken advantage of the law. The Red Wing
woman and her husband, Don, have stepped forward to provide
burial for the abandoned girl – just as they did with the other
two babies found in the river.
Pending approval of authorities, the Madtsons hope to lay the
baby to rest in their family plot at Oakwood Cemetery. They
buried their stillborn daughter, Ann Marie, there in 1989.
“One baby is bad enough,” Jeanne Madtson said. “Then, you get
two. And now three. This is just unreal. It’s heartbreaking.”
Madtson said she worries about the precedent.
“It’s like people know ‘if we drop them (babies) in the river at
Red Wing, someone will take care of them,’ ” she said. “That’s
not what I want. I don’t want to keep burying dead babies.”
In the past, the couple received donations of money and services
that helped defray burial costs, which came to about $1,200 to
$1,500 in 2004, Don Madtson said. They donated the remaining
proceeds to the Goodhue County sheriff’s office.
“It didn’t even cross my mind that this could happen again,”
Jeanne Madtson said.
John Brewer can be reached at 651-228-2093 or
jbrewer@pioneerpress.com.
More Information
The Goodhue County sheriff’s office will hold a news conference
on the cases at 11 a.m. today at the county law enforcement
center, 430 W. Sixth St., Red Wing.
Anyone with information about any of the cases can call the
sheriff’s office at 651-385-3155.
“We wanted one more alternative to a mother placing her child in
a river or a trash can. Sadly, there are times people know of
resources but choose not to use them.”
Laure Krupp, executive director, Safe Place for Newborns
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE ABBY (2007): NF, newborn, found at
Lake Pepin, MN - 26 March 2007
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 4:37 pm
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Unidentified Baby found Deceased in Minnesota in 2007.
This is the Goodhue County Jane Doe, known colloquially as
"Abby":
HTML https://i.imgur.com/W3h6RQ5.jpg
Abby was discovered in the Buffalo Slough of the Mississippi
River at the Treasure Island Marina in Red Wing, Minnesota on
March 26th, 2007. She is believed to have been full term or
nearly full term at the time of her death. There appeared to be
no trauma or physical abnormalities to the body. Some sources
claim that Abby is believed to be Native American with 70%
certainty, while others claim she is considered White with no
ties to the local Prairie Island Tribe. She is believed to have
been in the water for a few weeks to 6 months.
Abby's hair is black but due to composition her eye color could
not be determined. She did not have any clothing or other items
with her. Her cause of death is undetermined.
Abby is unfortunately not the first baby discovered in the
Mississippi near Red Wing, Minnesota. A newborn girl was
discovered in the river in 1999 and in 2003 a newborn boy was
found near Frontenac. It could not be determined if the boy
washed ashore or was simply placed there. He was discovered by a
group of teenage girls who initially thought he was a doll. The
baby girl found in 1999 was wrapped in a towel with her
umbilical cord still attached. A 4th baby was discovered in the
Mississippi river near Winona, Minnesota on September 5th, 2011
but is believed to be unconnected to the other three infants. It
is believed that Abby and the 1999 baby Doe could be related.
If you have any information regarding the death or identity of
Abby or any of the other three infants, you are encouraged to
contact the Goodhue County Sheriff's Office at 651-385-3155.
Tribal Information: Some sources list Abby as being Native while
others say she is White and unconnected to the local Prairie
Island Tribe. As she is unknown, so are her people.
Sources:
Twin Cities
Doe Network
NamUs
Crimestoppers MN
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE ABBY (2007): NF, newborn, found at
Lake Pepin, MN - 26 March 2007
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 4:39 pm
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE ABBY (2007): NF, newborn, found at
Lake Pepin, MN - 26 March 2007
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 4:40 pm
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Treasure Island Marina, Red Wing, Minnesota
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