Genetic genealogy is identifying the mothers of deceased newborns found abandoned, shedding light on crimes that went unsolved for years. Women now may face lengthy prison sentences for decades-old chapters of their pasts.
Wayne Springer, a former investigator for Medina County, at the site in Hondo, Texas, where a deceased newborn was found.Credit...Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York Times
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By Isabelle Taft
One September evening in 2004, a Texas rancher noticed three buzzards circling near the road at the edge of his property. When he approached, he saw the body of an infant lying naked in the brush beside a barbed wire fence.
