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Strangers mourned the 1983 death of an abandoned baby girl. Police tracked down her mother 42 years later

On Wednesday, Nov. 12 the Anoka County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Homicide Unit announced investigators used DNA tools to locate the parents of the infant dubbed "Rachel Marie Doe".
Found naked with the placenta still attached, the infant was left on Jan. 21 on Anoka County Road 14, a half-mile east of Highway 65, by her mother, then a teenager.
Anoka County's cold-case unit submitted preserved umbilical-cord samples to Othram with funding from the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, and detectives interviewed both parents, including the mother in July.
With prosecutors declining charges, authorities will not release the infant's parents' identities since no homicide evidence was found and the statute of limitations expired, the Nov. 12 press release said the resolution could lead to healing.
Critics said the 1983 funeral and burial, attended by more than 500 people, included a monument with political symbolism, and the Rev. Bernard Reiser donated services and covered most of the $10,000 cost.

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Strangers mourned the 1983 death of an abandoned baby girl. Police tracked down her mother 42 years later

BLAINE, Minn. — She was so small. She was found dead, barely a day old, at a road in Blaine, Minnesota. A passing motorist found her and brought her to the authorities, who arranged her burial. Her name was unknown. So were her parents. It all made for a tragic mystery. A local anti-abortion group arranged for a funeral and agreed to pay for her burial. She had no name, so they gave her one: Rachel Marie Doe. The child's death would make her, fo…

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