Keith Whitlatch News Today

The Cedar County sheriff said genetic genealogy was used to identify parents of a dead baby left in a barn in 1996. Investigators want to determine if the baby was alive when it was abandoned. The father has cooperated with police, but the mother has not.

This 1996 Gazette article was republished on Jan. 29, 2024, after recent developments.

More than 27 years after Baby Jane Lincoln’s body was found wrapped in a plastic bag and left inside a barn east of Lisbon, Iowa, the parents have been found.

More than 27 years after Baby Jane Lincoln’s body was found wrapped in a plastic bag and left inside a barn east of Lisbon, Iowa, the parents have been found.

More than 27 years after Baby Jane Lincoln’s body was found wrapped in a plastic bag and left inside a barn east of Lisbon, Iowa, the parents have been found.

More than 27 years after Baby Jane Lincoln’s body was found wrapped in a plastic bag and left inside a barn east of Lisbon, Iowa, the parents have been found.

More than 27 years after Baby Jane Lincoln’s body was found wrapped in a plastic bag and left inside a barn east of Lisbon, Iowa, the parents have been found.

More than 27 years after Baby Jane Lincoln’s body was found wrapped in a plastic bag and left inside a barn east of Lisbon, Iowa, the parents have been found.