Posted: December 17, 2004 4:56 p.m. Eastern
A child cut from the womb of a slain eight-months-pregnant woman has been found alive after police in Missouri issued an Amber Alert.
Slain mother Bobbi Jo Stinnett in undated family photo (Courtesy Fox News).
Authorities sent out the alert after the body of Bobbi Jo Stinnett, 23, was discovered yesterday in Skidmore, Mo., by her mother.
Police in neighboring Kansas, who made the discovery through a telephone tip, are questioning a man and woman at the home where the baby was found.
Six FBI agents are on their way to the home from Kansas City, the Associated Press reported.
Earlier today, Nodaway County Sheriff Bill Espey in Missouri said doctors who examined the mother believed the baby probably was alive but would be in danger because of being one month premature.
"Someone was wanting a baby awful bad," he said.
Authorities said the crime scene in the northwest Missouri town of 500 had no visible signs of struggle. Police had been looking for a person with blond hair driving a red vehicle.
Stinnett, expecting her first child, worked in Maryville, Mo., at a motor factory.
A neighbor, Bill Dragoo, told the St. Joseph News-Press Stinnett and her husband "didn't bother anybody."
"It blows my mind that this happened," he said. "She was such a shy person. They didn't deserve this."
