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A Delaware True Crime
The infant's body was never found but she was found guilty of murder nonetheless.
The story details how Julie Bailey was unfaithful to her husband. She got pregnant and hid the pregnancy from everyone but a cherished friend. She used that friend's house to give birth in.
Only no one ever saw the infant alive.
Bailey alleges she took the newborn to the home of its natural father. She knocked loudly on the window, she alleges, and was sure someone would find the child.
Only the infant has never been found by anyone. The child's biological father says he never even knew Baily was pregnant much less found a baby on his door step.
Hey, it's an intriguing defense. The jury didn't buy it. Bailey was found guilty of murder.
GEORGETOWN — Julie Bailey, the Seaford woman charged with killing her newborn son by abandoning him on a doorstep in January 2003, was found guilty of murder Friday afternoon. A Sussex County Superior Court jury reached its verdict shortly before 3 p.m., after deliberating for about seven hours. It concluded that Bailey had caused the death of the baby by abuse and neglect. |
Ray Gricar
I've been following the case of Ray Gricar , the Pennsylvania prosecutor who took a ride one day and disappeared from the planet.
What's more intriguing about this case is that reports of sighting of Ray Gricar have been turned in, even in one case pictures were submitted that closely resembled Gricar.
In short, the investigators are not even sure that Gricar is dead!
So how could a human being, with children and a live-in lover, just drop off the planet, leaving his car and laptop behind?
Now the hard drive that had been missing from his laptop (why?) has been found.
I still think this guy decided to take a vacation from his old life. But he's doing a good job of not being found. Not even his dead body.
Article comments
1 - Marcia L. Neil
After watching the 'Nancy Grace' show on CNN this evening, the description of the scenario indicates that the Horowitz woman may have had convulsions -- and that a strong and healthy older woman does a lot of damage to herself and her surroundings while convulsing.
On the other hand, there is a population of young people in the region who apparently are willing to make demands to protect their own sensibilities. Within recent memory, one of the region's free newspapers described a home funeral service which appeared to have included quite young people as ceremonial workers. Other stories within the same genre of newspaper have also given hints of the early involvement of young people in the mortuary sciences -- while yet in their teens they are "chosen" and routed into the discipline. Their peers chose to use the telephone and perhaps other strategies to communicate observations that such members of their "generation" appear to be aging more rapidly than other young people.
Because some family cultures stress the fitness of potential marriage 'candidates', such demands to free their peers from that type of servitude may have been quite personally directed toward quite a number of older women thought to be past their child-bearing prime.
2 - Marcia L. Neil
Those kids found in duffel bags in two different states were supposed to be met by legitimate escorts (such as 'Tot-Finders' here in the city of San Francisco) and given a meal (perhaps from a nearby restaurant). They were not supposed to be the subjects of a call-demand network, nor the victims of some effort to set up 'Tot-Finders' as a business enterprise.