Arrest made in 36-year-old cold case death of baby born in Frenchville
Lee Ann Daigle has been charged with the murder of an infant whose body was found in subzero temperatures in a Frenchville gravel pit in 1985. Credit: Natalie Williams / BDN
A woman has been charged with murder for the death of an unnamed baby in December of 1985.
The baby’s body was discovered in Frenchville after a dog found the infant and carried her body to a nearby home on Dec. 7, 1985, according to Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety. After reconstructing the path that the dog took, investigators were able to determine that the baby had been born and then abandoned at a gravel pit in subzero temperatures.
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