NYPD IDs Baby "Hope's" Mom!

I was so young back then.


But I can vaguely remember the Baby Hope saga. I heard about this. There was a little toddler's body found in a cooler near a highway. It was a major news story back then and I guess that technology has finally determined who the mother of the child is. The New York Police are looking for her and want questions.

The summer of 1991, a little toddler who became known as "Baby Hope" was found dead in a cooler by construction workers in Manhattan, tied up and in a plastic bag. The girl, believed to have been between 3 and 5 years old, had been starved and sexually abused but was never reported missing. Now, thanks to a tip and DNA evidence, police believe they have identified the girl's mother, a law enforcement official tells the New York Times.


Police made a fresh push this summer to solve the case, putting up flyers in the neighborhood where the body was found and offering a $12,000 reward for information. The effort paid off when police received a tip from a woman who said she had spoken to a woman who said her sister had been killed.

Police acting on that tip interviewed several people and were able to confirm the identity of Baby Hope's mother, but while the case remains a murder investigation, nobody has been charged yet.