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GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE (2003): WM, newborn, found at Lake Pep
in, MN - 7 December 2003 *ARREST*
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 5:43 pm
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The live-born infant male was found on the edge of Lake Pepin.
The estimated birth time was 2 days to 2 weeks from the date of
discovery. The decedent is genetically related maternally to the
infant in case# GC99-158.
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE (2003): WM, newborn, found at Lake
Pepin, MN - 7 December 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 5:47 pm
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NamUs UP # 4794
ME/C Case Number: GC03-127
Goodhue County, Minnesota
0 to 1 year old White Male
Case Report - NamUs UP # 4794
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number GC03-127
Date found December 07, 2003 12:52
Date created February 09, 2009 11:21
Date last modified February 22, 2017 08:24
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed June 20, 2011 21:19
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 Male
Weight (pounds) 7, Estimated
Height (inches) 14, Measured
Body Parts Inventory (Check all that apply)
All parts recovered
Body conditions
Recognizable face
Probable year of death 2003 to 2003
Estimated postmortem interval 2 Weeks
Circumstances
Location Found
GPS coordinates
Address 1 Mile Marker 778.8
Address 2
City Old Frontenac
State Minnesota
Zip code 55026
County Goodhue
Circumstances
The live-born infant male was found on the edge of Lake Pepin.
The estimated birth time was 2 days to 2 weeks from the date of
discovery. The decedent is genetically related maternally to the
infant in case# GC99-158.
Physical
Hair color Black
Head hair
Curly, black hair
Left eye color
Right eye color
Eye description
Irides are dark in color
No other distinctive body features
Fingerprints
Status: Fingerprint information is currently not available
Clothing and Accessories
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 (2003): WM, newborn, found at Lake
Pepin, MN - 7 December 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 5:48 pm
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Case File: 1044UMMN
The Doe Network
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Composite of the victim by NCMEC
Unidentified Male
Date of Discovery: December 7, 2003
Location of Discovery: Old Frontenac, Goodhue County, Minnesota
Estimated Date of Death: 2-14 days prior
State of Remains: Recognizable face
Cause of Death: Unknown
Physical Description
** Listed information is approximate
Estimated Age: Newborn
Race: White
Gender: Male
Height: 14"
Weight: 7 lbs.
Hair Color: Black, curly.
Eye Color: Irides are dark in color.
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Dentals: Not available.
Fingerprints: Not available.
DNA: Available.
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: None.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Case History
The body of a full-term infant was discovered on the edge of
Lake Pepin.
Another baby, 604UFMN, was located in 1999, and is genetically
related maternally. Police believe the children had separate
fathers. Investigators believe that the infants were born alive.
Autopsies were never able to ascertain causes of death. The
mother of the children may have hidden the pregnancies and is
probably familiar with the area.
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 hope the composites can help piece together a
frustrating puzzle. Over the years they have had more than 100
leads.
After the discovery of the infants, a local couple paid to have
them buried next to their own stillborn daughter, under
headstones that read "God's Little Angel."
Investigating Agency(s)
If you have any information about this case please contact;
Agency Name: Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner's
Office
Agency Contact Person: Lindsey Thomas
Agency Phone Number: 507-284-2121
Agency Case Number: GO03-127
NCIC Case Number: U860017958
NamUs Case Number: UP #4794
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with
information regarding this case.
Information Source(s)
NamUs
WCCO News Archive
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE (2003): WM, newborn, found at Lake
Pepin, MN - 7 December 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 5:50 pm
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Two Unidentified Babies Discovered Deceased In Minnesota May
Belong To The Same Mother
Authorities believe the two unidentified babies below may have
the same biological mother. Although, they believed they had
separate fathers. Both were discovered deceased in Minnesota
less than three years apart.
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Baby #1
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 first victim was discovered on December 7, 2003 in Old
Frontenac, Goodhue County, Minnesota
Estimated Date of Death: No more than two weeks, no less than
two days.
Estimated age: Newborn (less than 48 hours old)
Hair: Curly, black hair.
Approximate Height/Weight: 14″; 7 lbs.
The unidentified baby boy was discovered on December 7, 2003 in
Florence Township Beach in Frontenac, MN.
NCIC Number for baby number one:
U860017958 (Please refer to this number when contacting any
agency with information regarding this case.)
The case may be related to another unidentified newborn found in
Red Wing in 1999.
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Reconstruction of Victim by NCMEC – NOTE: Outfits shown in the
age-progressed photos are not the actual outfits worn during
discovery.)
The infant is a girl and she was located November 4, 1999 on the
bank of the Mississippi River, in the small boat harbor in Red
Wing, MN, a little over three years before the discovery of the
boy. She was given the name Jamie.
Time of death: At-least 48 hours prior to discovery but no
longer than two weeks.
Authorities think the composites could help piece together a
frustrating puzzle. Over the years they have had over a 100
leads, yet the investigations remain unsolved.
Investigators believed that the infants were born alive.
Autopsies were never able to ascertain causes of death.
Officials believe that mother of the children may have hidden
the pregnancies and is probably familiar with the area or
possibly still living in the local areas.
After the discovery of both babies, a local couple paid to have
them buried next to their own stillborn daughter, under
headstones that read “God’s Little Angel.“
NCIC Number for baby number two:
U530018814 (Please refer to this number when contacting any
agency with information regarding this case.)
Agency Case Number for baby number one: GO03-127
Agency Case Number fpr baby number two: GC99-158
If you have any information about these unidentified children
please contact:
Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner’s Office
Lindsey Thomas
651-480-4253
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE (2003): WM, newborn, found at Lake
Pepin, MN - 7 December 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 5:51 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 (2003): WM, newborn, found at Lake
Pepin, MN - 7 December 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 5:54 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 (2003): WM, newborn, found at Lake
Pepin, MN - 7 December 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 5:55 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 (2003): WM, newborn, found at Lake
Pepin, MN - 7 December 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 5:57 pm
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Red Wing, Minn. / Sheriff hopes images help solve mystery of 3
dead newborns
Pioneer Press
Article Last Updated: 02/09/2008 12:03:24 AM CST
The Goodhue County sheriff's office released composite sketches
Friday of three babies found dead in Mississippi River waters
near Red Wing the past eight years.
Sheriff Dean Albers released the images hoping someone would
come forward with information.
"The idea is to put a face on these babies, to let people know
that they were real people," he said.
The first baby - a newborn girl - turned up in a Red Wing marina
in 1999, followed by a newborn boy in Lake Pepin in 2003 and
another newborn girl in the Treasure Island Resort & Casino
marina in 2007. The sheriff's office has made several appeals
for information and has received about 100 leads. None has
panned out.
The first two infants had the same mother and were almost
certainly white, authorities concluded based on DNA tests. The
third infant was not related to the first two and was most
likely of American Indian descent.
Albers said his office recently has taken DNA samples from
several people, including one woman.
The images were created by the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children based on photos of the dead children.
Anyone with information may contact the sheriff's office at
651-385-3155.
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE (2003): WM, newborn, found at Lake
Pepin, MN - 7 December 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 5:59 pm
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Re: GOODHUE COUNTY INFANT DOE (2003): WM, newborn, found at Lake
Pepin, MN - 7 December 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 6:01 pm
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The unidentified baby boy was discovered on December 7, 2003 in
Florence Township Beach in Frontenac, MN.
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Old Frontenac, Florence Township, MN
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