End of the mystery: they solve what happened to the murdered baby who had frozen tears

March 12, 2019

After major investigations, a murder was revealed and caused an emotion throughout the society. What happened?

A few days ago it was solved one of the most cruel murders in the history of the United Stateswhen police in a city in South Dakota managed to find the culprit.

The February 28, 1981, when Lee Litz He was driving on the outskirts of Sioux Falls until he saw something off the road that caught his eye.

That's when he met a child fresh out of the womb of his mother who was wrapped in a red blanket, dead in a ditch and still with the umbilical cord and placenta.

By lifting the blanket, saw the baby deadly cold and with icy tears on his face"See a child lying like this, how could anyone do that?" Said the man, who could never forget this heartbreaking episode.

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A medical examiner has determined that the child He spent about 24 hours in the trench. He was born alive and remained alive at least two hours before dying of cold and bleeding.

No suspects have been identified, nor any member of the child's family. It was then that the community ended up giving him the burial and name him Andrew John Doe. Attempts to locate the mother have been futile.

Resolution of the case

But in 2009, troops managed to exhume the baby's body to get Bone DNAalthough it was not possible to find saved data either.

Detective Michael Webb then decided to look at the database every year for 10 years, until he got an index from genetic genealogyas detailed in Washington Post. With this procedure, the DNA of a stranger is extracted from the crime scene and identifies the suspect through the intermediary of family members, who voluntarily send their DNA to genealogical databases.

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Last Friday, the police managed to find the baby's mother, Theresa Bentaas, who had been arrested almost ten years after the shocking case. Surprisingly, she was still living in Sioux Falls, with her husband and two grown children.

The woman was charged with first degree murder, second degree murder and manslaughtersaid the police. The father of the child was also questioned, although, according to the details ABC Newshe was not arrested because "it was determined that at the time, it was young adolescents and he did not know it". Bentaas is scheduled to appear in court on March 11.