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Lesa Lopez was 20 years old when her newborn baby was discovered in a Castro Valley creek bed, dead from strangulation.

Lesa Lopez was 20 years old when her newborn baby was discovered in a Castro Valley creek bed, dead from strangulation.

On May 15, 1988, two children were playing near a creek in Northern California’s sunny Castro Valley when they made a disturbing discovery. At the top of an embankment along the creek, they found a bag containing the body of a newborn baby boy. He was swaddled in a light blue, adult-sized Garfield T-shirt. An autopsy later determined that the baby died by homicide. The mother, who investigators considered a suspect, could not be found. The investigation turned up no viable leads. No one seemed to have any information about who the mother could be. In July 1988, a local church organized a fu...

Tech mag asks: Should we really investigate cold cases involving murdered or abandoned infants? Print this article Medium’s science publication, Future Human, has an article out this week investigating the new technologies being used to solve cold cases involving murdered or abandoned infant children. The weird thing about the article is that it comes across as sympathetic toward the mothers who commit said crimes. In fact, it’s hard to read the article and not come away with the distinct impression that the author believes these unsolved crimes ought to remain unsolved for the sake o...