{"id":39960,"date":"2020-08-04T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mother-arrested-in-her-babys-1988-killing-thanks-to-dna\/"},"modified":"2020-08-04T04:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:25:00","slug":"mother-arrested-in-her-babys-1988-killing-thanks-to-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mother-arrested-in-her-babys-1988-killing-thanks-to-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mother arrested in her baby\u2019s 1988 killing thanks to DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mother arrested in her baby\u2019s 1988 killing thanks to DNA<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 3, 2020 |<\/span> 9:25pm <\/p>\n

\n SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A California woman has been arrested in the death of her newborn baby boy in the San Francisco Bay Area 32 years ago in a case that was solved decades later because of genetic genealogy, authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n

Lesa Lopez, 52, admitted to investigators she was the mother of the baby and implicated herself in the killing, Alameda County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cLopez, who was 20 years old at the time of the incident, told investigators she hid the pregnancy from her family and friends and provided details of what happ<\/a>ened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lopez, of Salida, was arrested on July 23 and charged with murder. She is being held on $2 million bail. It wasn\u2019t immedia<\/a>tely known if she has an attorney who can speak on her behalf.<\/p>\n

Two children playing found the baby\u2019s body on May 15, 1988, inside a paper bag left among trees and bushes on the bank of a creek in Castro Valley. An autopsy revealed the baby was alive at birth and was killed, Kelly said.<\/p>\n

The boy, identified by investigators as Baby Joe Doe, was given a funeral at St. Leanders Church in San Leandro attended by more than 200 people. A priest posthumously named him Richard Jayson Terrance Rein after the church\u2019s vicars and priests.<\/p>\n

With DNA investigative technology<\/a> much more advanced, the DNA of a woman was found in 2005 in evidence collected from the crime scene. Investigators believed it belonged to the baby\u2019s mother, who was considered a suspect, but she couldn\u2019t be identified.<\/p>\n

Multiple investigators with the sheriff\u2019s office tried to solve the case over the past 32 years \u201cfor a baby boy who never had a voice and never had the chance of living a full life,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n

Last year, investigators again took up the case with the help of experts in forensic genetic genealogy from the FBI, and private labs, including Oklahoma-based DNA solutions and Gene-by-Gene\u2019, which owns the genealogy website FamilyTreeDNA.<\/p>\n

After extensive genealogy research, surveillance and DNA collected from Lopez\u2019s discarded trash, cold case investigators linked Lopez to the crime scene, Kelly said.<\/p>\n

They used the same advanced DNA testing that helped crack the decades-old Golden State Killer case.<\/p>\n

In 2018, police investigators identified Joseph DeAngelo, a former police officer, after using DNA from crime scenes to find relatives of their suspect through a popular genealogy website database. They tailed DeAngelo and secretly collected DNA from his car door and a discarded tissue to get an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n

DeAngelo, who terrorized California as a serial burglar and rapist and went on to kill more than a dozen people while evading capture for decades, pleaded guilty last month.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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