Mother of 'Baby Skylar' who was found dead in Phoenix airport trash can 19 years ago is arrested
The mother of a newborn girl found dead in a garbage can at a Phoenix airport in 2005 has been arrested after investigators dug back into the cold case using genetic genealogy, police announced Tuesday.
The mother of a newborn girl found dead in a garbage can at a Phoenix airport in 2005 has been arrested after investigators dug back into the cold case using genetic genealogy, police announced Tuesday.
The infant, called “Baby Skylar," was found deceased, wrapped in newspapers and a white towel and stuffed in a plastic Marriot hotel bag, in a Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport women's restroom on Oct. 10, 2005.
For years, investigators searched for suspects in Baby Skylar's death.
Nineteen years later, police have identified a suspect — the baby's mother — Annie Anderson, 51, of Washington state.
The infant's death was ruled a homicide by suffocation, the local medical examiner ruled at the time, police said Tuesday.
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