AMBER ALERT Baby Kidnapped from Franklin County (Mo) Home-UPDATE: BABY FOUND ALIVE

St. Louis Post Dispatch ^ | 9/15/06 | Heather Ratcliffe

[stlnative]

I am sure that the national media will play the LE's press conference which explains how all of this went down and how the sister-in-law noticed the birthmark on the baby's head. It almost sounds like the suspects husband may have know that the baby was not his wife's. But so far they are not saying anything about the husband.

[LA Woman3]

So Shannon Beck (suspect) must have been pretty far along in her pregnancy to try and pass off a newborn baby as her own. Glad family members were alert to the situation and noticed the makeup covering the birthmark.

[stlnative]

Correction:

known that the baby was not his and his wife's.

[stlnative]

I believe so... the sister-in-law that turned her in had also just had a baby.

[stlnative]

On Sunday, Beck contacted Torrez to say she had given birth, Corvington said. Beck had been pregnant but apparently miscarried shortly before her own child was to be born.

Torrez visited Beck on Monday and urged her to take the child to a doctor, the FBI agent said. Beck agreed, and Torrez accompanied her to St. Louis on Tuesday, about 45 miles away.

Torrez noticed what appeared to be makeup on the baby's forehead, Corvington said. When she rubbed the forehead, makeup came off what was covering a small birthmark.

In publicizing the abduction, police had described Abby's strawberry-red birthmark. Her suspicions aroused, Torrez confronted Beck, who gave her the baby, Corvington said.

Torrez contacted police, and the baby was handed over to authorities around 5 p.m. Tuesday.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=nation_world&id=4579351

[ohioWfan]

Praising the LORD!!

[LA Woman3]

Thanks for the update. Glad there was a happy ending!

[stlnative]

This one is written more to match what LE is reporting locally.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/19/baby.missing/

Beck called her sister-in-law, Dorothy Torrez, Sunday to say she had given birth, and Torrez visited Beck Monday and Tuesday, Corvington said.

While accompanying her to a doctor's appointment Tuesday, Torrez noticed makeup on the baby's forehead, the special agent said. Police reports had indicated the baby had a birthmark on her forehead.

While Beck was inside the doctor's office, Torrez rubbed Abigale's forehead with her cap and the makeup came off, revealing a birthmark, Corvington said. Torrez called her own husband and Beck's husband before confronting Beck.

When the pair got home, there was an argument over the child, and Beck's husband gave the baby to Torrez and told her to take the infant to police. She did so about 5 p.m. Tuesday, Corvington said.

[Rte66]

Thanks for the ping and the pic. I was looking at the exact photo on TV when I pulled this up!

They will all be on the Today Show tomorrow morning.

[stlnative]

I am listening to local news. The sheriff was at the parents home when he first got the phone call. At first he was told the baby was dead and within a minute while he was on the phone they said no she is alive. The sheriff told Abby's parents that they may have found Abby (he told them that they found a live baby) and for them to stay put and he would be right back. He got in his patrol car and drove straight down Hwy 47 for about 4 miles and pulled into a home off Hwy 47. An ambulance took the baby to the hospital and the sheriff went back to the parents home just 4 miles away down Hwy 47 to tell them that it was Abby and let go meet her at the hospital! - So off they went with the sheriff to the hospital.

[stlnative]

from what I wrote in 130 it sounds to me that suspect miscarried at home and that was the dead baby they found first. I could be that woman never sought medical care for the miscarriage.

[stlnative]

this would explain why the suspect was not in the hospital on Friday after having a late term miscarriage on Friday. (Abby was kidnapped at 12:30pm on Friday) I wonder how she was able to pull all this off at home and hide the miscarried baby's body. I wonder if her husband help her.

[Rte66]

Wow - I know they are all soooo happy. Looking forward to hearing them in the morning.

[DollyCali]

Good news BUMP..thanks for the thread CAWT

[2Jedismom]

Whew! Coulda been touch and go, that! I think if I'd had suspicions, I would have simply gone somewhere private and called the authorities, not confronted anyone personally. They could've run, you know?

I'm so glad this turned out well!

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

So glad the baby's safe and back with her mother. Must be a pretty big case for the FBI, National Guard, and the police to be involved. Must be some kind of baby-farming ring...

Prayers and blessings to mom and baby...

[Lexinom]

My wife has family in Franklin County, MO.