Colorado mom sentenced to life for killing newborn, tossing body into neighbor’s yard

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) - A Colorado woman was found guilty of killing her own newborn daughter and tossing the body into a neighbor’s yard.

Camille Wasinger-Konrad, 25, was found guilty in August of first-degree murder after deliberation, tampering with physical evidence and the position-of-trust murder charge.

“Of all the many emotions of the magical first moments of a baby’s life, of all the many tender moments a mother shared in that first embrace with a completely helpless and fragile life, smothering a newborn, and pitching its body over a fence in the cold of January is impossible to understand,” said District Attorney George Brauchler in a release. “Who are we as a people that someone among us has such disregard for the most innocent of lives -- a life they helped create? Disgusting.”

According to the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, Wasinger-Konrad was renting a room in a Highlands Ranch Home. Early in the morning of Jan. 2, 2018, she gave birth to a girl in her bedroom. The district attorney’s office says she covered the baby’s nose and mouth to keep her from crying so as not to awaken others. She then carried the newborn downstairs to the back deck and threw the baby into the backyard of a neighbor.

The neighbor found the dead child at 9:48 p.m. that night and called the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.

From WREG
“I just got rid of it”

Camille Wasinger-Konrad, 23, allegedly gave birth on Jan. 2, 2018 and then tossed her newborn onto a neighbor’s back deck where it was found dead about 14 hours later.

Camille Wasinger-Konrad

Wasinger-Konrad is charged with first-degree murder of a victim under 12 by someone in a position of trust and first-degree murder after deliberation and tampering with evidence.

Court records have been sealed in her case but KDVR learned a number of new details at the defendant’s preliminary hearing Tuesday morning, including the fact that Wasinger-Konrad claimed to not know she was pregnant until the morning she gave birth.

Douglas County Sheriff Deputies responded to the 500 block of Longfellow Lane around 9:45 p.m. on the night of Jan. 2 after a woman named Jeanette Barich reported finding a dead infant on her back deck.

Barich told detectives she went onto her back deck to use her hot tub when she noticed her dog smelling what appeared to be a dead baby. She immediately brought the infant inside her home and called 911.

Detectives found a bloody shower curtain in the next-door neighbor’s trash can. It turns out Wasinger-Konrad had been renting a room from the family next door for about four months.

Wasinger-Konrad’s landlord told detectives she had cleaned an immense amount of blood that morning from the upstairs bathroom that Wasinger-Konrad uses but had no idea Wasinger-Konrad might have been pregnant.

Douglas County Detective Adam Moorman found Wasinger-Konrad sitting on her bed upstairs and she agreed to talk with him but claimed to have no idea what he might be investigating.

After he asked Wasinger-Konrad if her DNA might match the dead baby he found next door, she responded, “Well the thing is I don’t want to get in trouble” but eventually explained she woke up that morning between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. to bad stomach cramps and “the baby just came out.”

In an interview recorded on a deputy’s body camera, Wasinger-Konrad told detectives “I just got rid of it,” referring to the baby.

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