Police Trace Mother of Newborn Found Dead in Ditch 38 Years Ago, Charge Her With Murder

Police Trace Mother of Newborn Found Dead in Ditch 38 Years Ago, Charge Her With Murder
Theresa Rose Bentaas, in a booking photo released on March 8, 2019. Minnehaha County Jail via KELO via AP
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
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The thought of the newborn baby, lifeless in a ditch, tears frozen on its face, still haunts the man who spotted him wrapped in a red blanket on the side of a South Carolina highway 38 years ago.

“To see a child thrown away like that—how could someone do that,” Lee Litz said in 2016, as he told local media that he still visited the grave of the unknown child. “Someone got away with murder.”

Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
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