“Sheriff: Arrest in '92 Cold Case Death of Baby Girl in River.” AP NEWS, Associated Press, 17 Aug. 2021, apnews.com/article/arrests-5ec49e3a0a265f66cec958f49aeda0fb.
The article is about how a newborn baby was found dead by the Catawba River in Southern Carolina. The child had stab wounds, but coroners were able to detect that it was suffocation that killed the child, not the stab wounds. The case was closed till October 2020 where it was reopened with new DNA evidence that linked Stacy Rabon( the child's mother), who was arrested on drug charges in 2019, to the child. The child was named Angel Hope by the community around the river and they also paid for her to be buried.
The article is relevant because it shows that no matter how cold a case can get, new information can appear which can crack it wide open. The case was closed for nearly 30 years and within a year of it being reopened they had made an arrest. The article shows how the community came together to give a proper burial to a child that they didn’t even know. The author makes it clear that the case has “haunted our community for years” and that the solving of this case has given the community closure.
The article never really goes into depth about why the case was closed, the author just states that it was closed for nearly 30 years. Did the police have a hard time finding out who the mother was? Or did she just seem innocent at the time. The author doesn’t give much information about Stacy Rabon just that she was arrested for drug charges prior to the murder charges. One positive about the article was that the author showed how the community came together and deeply cared about the case. The community paid for the child to be buried and also stated that the community was haunted by the case.
posted for J. Balseiro
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