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Woman Pleads Guilty in Newborn Daughter’s Death Almost 40 Years After Dog Found Baby’s Body

A Massachusetts woman pleaded guilty Thursday to manslaughter in the death of her infant daughter, Baby Jane Doe, found in a gravel pit more than 37 years ago in northern Maine. Lee Ann Daigle, 58, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was arrested last year after police cracked the case thanks to years of police work and advancements in DNA technology,

Her name was Lee Ann Guerrette when a newborn baby was carried home by a Siberian Husky to a home in Frenchville and police were alerted to the grisly discovery on Dec. 7, 1985.

“I could not believe what I saw. I saw what looked like a little rag doll, but then we saw it was a frozen little baby,” the dog’s owner, Armand Pelletier, told the Bangor Daily News in 2014.

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