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New York Times
03-06-2025
- General
- New York Times
A DNA Technique is Finding Women Who Left Their Babies for Dead
One September evening in 2004, a Texas rancher noticed three buzzards circling near the road at the edge of his property. When he approached, he saw the body of an infant lying naked in the brush beside a barbed wire fence. Wayne Springer, then an investigator with the Medina County Sheriff's Department, was among the officers called to the scene. The infant was a newborn girl with the umbilical cord still attached. Deputy Springer knocked on doors up and down the road, looking for witnesses. He collected cheek swabs from dozens of people, hoping to find a DNA match. He tracked down carnival workers who had been in town for the Medina County Fair. On the anniversary of the baby's death, he staked out the cemetery in case someone stopped by her grave. Then, one day in 2023, his phone blew up. Former colleagues at the sheriff's department were calling to say that a 45-year-old woman, Maricela Frausto, had been identified as the baby's mother. Ms. Frausto, a mother of two who owned a restaurant in nearby Hondo, Texas, with her family, had been identified using a relatively new technique known as forensic genetic genealogy. Using DNA data from thousands of volunteer donors, investigators can create family trees and use them to match DNA found at crime scenes. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
More than 8,000 still without power in northern Ohio after Saturday storms
As of the morning of Sunday, May 18, around 8,500 people remain without power after the thunderstorms and high winds that rolled through northern Ohio early morning on Saturday, May 17, according to FirstEnergy. This number incudes 92 people in Medina County, 959 in Portage County, and more than 6,000 in Summit County, according to the FirstEnergy outages map. Especially hard hit was the area around Clinton and New Franklin, where more than 800 customers are reported to be without power. FirstEnergy reports that power should be restored by Monday, May 19 by 3 p.m. According to the National Weather Service, .67 inches of rain fell May 17. Yesterday's storms: UPDATE: FirstEnergy restoring power after an initial 121,000 in the dark after storm This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Power outages still rampant in Northeast Ohio following storm
