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STORM LAKE BABY BOY DOE: M, 2 Days, found in a Buena Vista County mobile home - 17 October 1995
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Two day old infant found at 502 C West 8th Street, Vista Estates Mobile Home Park.
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https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/baby-doe/
Baby Boy Doe
Homicide
Baby Doe
Two days old
502 C West 8th Street
Vista Estates Mobile Home Park
Storm Lake, IA
Buena Vista County
Baby’s DOB: October 15, 1995
Body Found: October 17, 1995
Case summary compiled by Jody Ewing
On Tuesday, October 17, 1995, two police officers on foot patrol in Storm Lake, Iowa, entered a boarded-up mobile home and, on the floor inside a dark closet, found the body of a 2-day-old baby boy wrapped in a youth’s sweatshirt.
The officers entered the 502 C West 8th Street trailer on what they thought would be a routine investigation, the (Storm Lake) Pilot Tribune reported Thursday, Oct. 19, 1995.
Akoya:
Storm Lake Police Captain Joe Hoye displays a flyer describing the sweatshirt found wrapped around the infant.
Akoya:
https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/baby-doe/
A dozen police officers and agents from the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation spent most of Wednesday searching for clues to the baby’s identity and the person or persons responsible for the infant’s death. Police sealed off the home as a possible crime scene as they awaited criminologists from the DCI Crime Lab in Des Moines.
Storm Lake Police Captain Joe Hoye said they were treating the case as a criminal investigation, and that manslaughter or murder charges may be implicated in the child’s death.
Hoye called the incident a difficult case emotionally for officers to handle.
“Police are trained for difficult situations, but I don’t think you could ever prepare anyone to deal with something like this,” he told the Pilot Tribune. “When you are talking about a child dead of neglect, it is very hard for the officers to deal with.”
A preliminary report from an autopsy conducted in Sioux City by the State Medical Examiner’s Office determined the baby was a male and less than two days old. Hoye said the child appeared to be a full-term delivery, but didn’t know whether the baby had been born in a hospital setting or elsewhere.
According to the autopsy report, the baby had been abandoned in the trailer about 24 hours before being discovered Tuesday by police about 7 p.m.
Akoya:
A mobile home, boarded up several years ago, is the focus of an investigation into the death of a 2-day-old infant found in a closet Tuesday night, Oct. 17, 1995.
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