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LOS ANGELES A U-S-C student charged with murder in the death of her abandoned newborn was reportedly also investigated last year in connection with the stillborn birth of a child whose body never was found. Holly Ashcraft was not arrested or charged with a crime in the April 2004 probe. The Los Angeles Times reports that Ashcraft went to the Good Samaritan Hospital downtown last year. She was hemorrhaging and doctors determined that she had recently given birth, but she said the baby was stillborn and she had disposed of it. The Times says police did not extensively search for...

It's been three years since Terry Ashcraft of Billings last spoke to his daughter, the 21-year-old University of Southern California student accused of leaving her newborn son to die in an alley behind a popular bar in Los Angeles. So Ashcraft was as shocked as anyone when he learned of the allegations against Holly Ashcraft - a pretty honor roll graduate of West High who reportedly attended USC on a full scholarship. “If I could say something that would enlighten things, I would do that,” Terry Ashcraft said outside his home Friday. “All I can really say about it is...

LOS ANGELES Police say a University of Southern California student has been arrested for investigation of murder in the death of a newborn boy whose body was found behind a restaurant near the campus. L-A-P-D Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell says 21-year-old Holly Ashcraft was booked into county jail. She's being held on one (m) million dollars bail. L-A-P-D Officer Jason Lee says Ashcraft is alleged to be the mother of the baby. Police found the body early Monday behind the popular restaurant after receiving an anonymous 9-1-1 call from a man who said he found it in a box next...