Mo. mom's throat slashed, newborn taken
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A woman slashed the throat of a new mother in a rural Missouri home Friday and fled with her 1-week-old daughter, the Franklin County Sheriff's Department said.
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SKIDMORE, Mo. - Authorities looking for an infant cut from the womb of its mother expanded their search outside of Missouri on Friday as they maintained hope the baby girl might still be alive.
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MARYVILLE, Missouri -- Missouri authorities arrested a woman yesterday they allege went to the home of an eight-months pregnant woman to buy a dog, then strangled her and cut the baby from her womb.
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Shaking and fighting tears, Shannon Torrez pleaded not guilty today to charges she slashed a young mother's throat and stole her newborn daughter. With wrists shackled, Torrez brushed back tears and spoke just above a whisper during the brief hearing. In court papers, authorities said the suspect was drawn to the home of the newborn's mother, by a lawn sign that said "It's a girl!"
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Authorities rescued a newborn from a trash bin behind a restaurant Thursday and police said the baby's 22-year-old mother was under investigation.
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Police released a sketch Monday of a woman they believe stole a baby after slashing the mother's throat, hoping to generate new clues in the four-day old case.
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The father of a baby girl snatched from  the womb of her strangled mother greeted the infant as a  miracle as the two were united after a grisly murder that  gripped the United States, a Kansas hospital said on Saturday.
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A baby girl cut out of the abdomen of a pregnant woman who had been strangled in northwestern Missouri was found alive in Kansas yesterday afternoon and a Kansas woman was charged in the crime, the police said.
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An 11-day-old girl missing since an attacker allegedly slashed her mother's throat and vanished with the infant was found alive Tuesday, said Gina Petzold, a spokeswoman for the girl's family.
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A US woman is charged with strangling an expecting mother and stealing the baby from her womb.
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Hundreds Gather in Mo. to Mourn Woman Whose Baby Was Cut From Her Womb After She Was Slain. Pallbearers bring out the casket of Bobbie Jo Stinnett from the Price Funeral Home in Maryville, Mo.
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A mother killed her five children, then tried to commit suicide at the family's home, officials said Wednesday. The four girls and a boy, aged between 4 and 14, were stabbed with a knife. The woman called emergency services, then tried to kill herself. She was in critical condition at a hospital.
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An 8-month-old fetus cut from the womb of its strangled mother in Missouri turned up healthy and very much alive Friday in Kansas, where police arrested a woman for kidnapping and suspicion of murder.
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Federal authorities on Friday night charged a Melvern, Kan., woman with killing another woman and taking a baby from her womb. US Attorney Todd Graves said Lisa M. Montgomery
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A US woman is charged with strangling an expectant mother and stealing the baby from her womb.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Churchgoers in two communities stunned by the slaying of an expectant mother whose baby was cut from her womb grieved for the young woman Sunday and struggled to understand her grisly death.
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A woman who claimed to have witnessed a newborn being thrown from a moving car was the baby's mother and concocted the story as a way to abandon the child and conceal her pregnancy from her family, officials said Friday.