A dog brings a small corpse back to its masters, the investigation switches 38 years later

Advanced DNA technologies have made it possible to solve the case ofBaby Jane Doe“, 38 years after the discovery of his body. The article of lematin.ch of April 11, 2023 returns to this macabre discovery dating from the year 1985. A dog, a husky, had brought back to its owners something which had seemed to them to be a rag dollon December 7, 1985. On closer inspection, the owner of the dog, Armand Pelletier, a resident of Frenchville, in northern Maine, in the United States, had discovered a frozen baby.

“I couldn’t not believe what i saw. I saw what looked like a little rag doll, but then we saw it was a frozen little baby“, declared Armand Pelletier to the Bangor Daily Newsreports lematin.ch. We learn that the corpse of the frozen baby was found by the husky dog in a gravel pit according to information from the police who followed the tracks of the dog. The child’s mother had obviously gave birth at the scene and had abandoned the infant in sub-zero temperatures, explains lematin.ch.

The newborn was left naked in sub-zero temperatures

At the moment of macabre discovery, the baby was naked and part of his umbilical cord was still attached to him. The little girl’s mother could be traced, 38 years later, thanks to its DNA. The identity of the mother of “Baby Jane Doe“was discovered in June last year. According to information from the CNN relayed by lematin.chthe mother who had abandoned her newborn baby in a gravel pit when it was minus zero degrees responds to the name of Lee Ann Guerette. We learn that she is currently 59 years old and lives in Lowell, Massachusetts. The woman, who was 21 at the time, pleaded guilty last Thursday, April 7, after being released on bail in August 2022.