Pregnant 23 yo woman found in closet-fetus cut out of her body (BabyFoundAlive)

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http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/20210933/detail.html
Police Searching For Clues In Slaying Of Pregnant Mom
Father Of Infant Says Haynes Had Problems, Didn't Deserve Gruesome Death

POSTED: 6:47 am EDT July 29, 2009
UPDATED: 7:09 am EDT July 29, 2009
WORCESTER, Mass. -- Worcester police are searching for clues in the death of a pregnant woman whose body was found stuffed in a closet Monday, her fetus cut out of her body.

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Officers said a landlord discovered the body of Darlene Haynes, 23, after residents complained of a strong smell coming from her Southgate Street apartment. Haynes, a mother of three children, had not been seen for several days and her dog had been barking for days.

"It was just a horrifying smell and just led me to the bedroom. And that's where I located ... the body was in the closet," landlord William Thompson said.

Haynes' skull was cracked and her womb cut open, the fetus removed.

"At eight months pregnancy, this infant is viable and has, according to medical personnel, the possibility of surviving," Worcester police Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said.

Detectives have been checking hospitals to see if anyone has brought a baby in. They said it's possible the infant could have survived but would be in urgent need of medical attention.

Haynes had three other children but only her 18-month-old daughter lived with her. She had a complicated relationship with the father of that child, Roberto Rodriguez. Haynes had taken out a restraining order against him a month ago but still shared custody of their daughter with him. He was also the father of the fetus.

"She was a nice girl. She had her problems, you know? But nobody deserves to go through what she went through," Rodriguez said.

Police said they have not issued an Amber Alert for the infant because they don't have enough information to go on. The medical examiner ruled Haynes death a homicide.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8201108&page=1

Mom-to-Be Darlene Haynes Killed, Cops Search for Her Fetus
Landlord Found Darlene Haynes, 23, Dead in Her Apartment Closet
By SARAH NETTER
July 29, 2009
Police in Worcester, Mass., are searching for a fetus that was ripped from its mother's womb in a gruesome attack.
Darlene Haynes' mutilated body was found wrapped in bedding in a closet in her Southgate Street apartment Monday. She was eight months pregnant at the time of her death, police said, and they believe the body has been in the closet since Thursday.

At eight months, there is a chance the fetus could still be alive, sending police on a frantic search in and around Worcester, about a 45-minute drive from Boston.

"We're searching everywhere," Worcester Police Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst told ABCNews.com today. "There's many places where this child could be."
Hazelhurst, who described the neighborhood where Haynes lived as "working class," said he did not know the baby's gender.

ABC's Boston affiliate WCVB reported today that Haynes had three other children, but only her 18-month-old daughter lived with her.

Haynes had taken out a restraining order on Roberto Rodriguez, the father of that child and of her fetus. He is not considered a suspect in her death.

"She was a nice girl. She had her problems, you know?" Rodriguez told WCVB. "But nobody deserves to go through what she went through."

Haynes' aunt, Sandra Grandmaison, described her niece as a loving woman who was slow to develop intellectually and never graduated high school. Haynes, she said, already had a name picked out for the baby, but wouldn't share it, wanting to surprise her family.

Grandmaison told the Boston Herald that she hopes her niece did not know her attacker or attackers had cut the fetus from her body.

"I just hope she was at peace," Grandmaison said. "I hope she didn't feel anything."


Other Pregnant Women Slain by Womb Raiders

There has been a spate of similar grisly stories of pregnant women being attacked, their fetuses cut from their wombs. The attackers are typically other women who are desperate to have a child.

Last year, two Midwestern women were convicted of attacking women to steal their unborn children.

One of them, Lisa Montgomery, was sentenced to death for killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23.

Montgomery had gone to visit Stinnett at her Missouri home in 2004 under the guise of being interested in Stinnett's rat terrier puppies when she strangled the pregnant woman with a rope and used a kitchen knife to cut her baby girl from the womb.

The baby was found alive and later reunited with her father.

Last summer Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong attacked expectant mother Araceli Gomez in Washington state, binding her hands and feet and cutting out her unborn son before stabbing Gomez to death.

The baby survived the attack and police say Synhavong later claimed the little boy was her own.

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While the police have not yet named a suspect in the murder, Grandmaison said Darlene Haynes had problems with two men, her ex-boyfriend Roberto Rodriquez and her landlord William Thompson, who discovered her body.

Haynes had taken out a restraining order against Rodriguez, the father of the unborn child and her daughter Christina, more than three weeks ago. Grandmaison said Rodriguez had been abusive to her and to her grandmother, threatening to kill her grandmother if she tried to take custody of Christina.

Grandmaison said Thompson would sometimes let himself into her apartment unannounced. "He was just literally harassing her," she said.

But whoever killed Haynes and cut out her fetus, Grandmaison said, knew what they were doing. Christina, she said, was not found in the home with her mother's body and Worcester police have refused to tell her where they found the little girl.

"It was planned," she said. "It was worked out very carefully. They knew enough to take the baby out of the house."

Christina, she said, is now in the custody of Haynes' mother.

Grandmaison described Haynes as a loving mother who was friendly to strangers, and, she said, was severely developmentally disabled as a result of abuse as a young child.

Grandmaison estimated that Haynes functioned as a 12- or 13-year-old would- and had a hard time holding down a job.

But she loved her children, she said, adding that Haynes "never forgot the kids' birthdays, never forgot Christmas."


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http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8201108&page=1

[Lovinlife]

http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20001031baby1.asp

Similar story from 2000. 

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Mass. woman killed, fetus removed from womb

By BOB SALSBERG (AP) – 16 minutes ago
Wed. Jul 29, 2009

This undated photo released by a family member shows Darlene Haynes, 23, who was found dead in her Worcester, Mass., apartment Monday, July 27, 2009, with her fetus cut from her womb, Police were trying to find the missing baby Wednesday, which they said could have survived. (AP Photo/Family photo via Boston Herald) MANDATORY CREDIT BOSTON HERALD. NO SALES. BOSTON GLOBE OUT. METRO BOSTON OUT. MAGS OUT. ONLINE USE PERMITTED WITH MANDATORY CREDIT: BOSTON HERALD

WORCESTER, Mass. — A pregnant woman was found dead in her apartment with her fetus cut from her womb, and police on Wednesday were trying to find the missing baby, which they said could have survived.

Darlene Haynes was about eight months' pregnant and the child would have needed immediate medical attention to survive, authorities said.

Haynes' body was found Monday by her landlord, William Thompson, who said a "horrifying smell" led him to her apartment, where he found her body wrapped in bedding in a closet.

Police said the 23-year-old victim had apparently been dead for several days, and that she hadn't contacted family or friends since Thursday. It was not until an autopsy on Tuesday that authorities discovered the fetus was missing.

"It's horrific," Thompson said Wednesday. "There's no words to describe what's going on in this building today."

Police said they are not ruling out anyone as a possible suspect, but declined to give any specifics about the search for the killer or the baby.

"We're looking for a live infant or we're looking for a deceased infant ... on top of who killed the woman," Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said.

District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. declined to comment on any developments in the case, but said in a statement, "Our hope is that the baby will be found alive and the murderer will be brought to justice."

The exact cause of Haynes' death has not yet been determined pending toxicology tests, but Worcester Police Detective Capt. Edward J. McGinn Jr. said the autopsy indicated Haynes suffered head injuries.

Haysha Toledo, a 17-year-old neighbor, said she often saw Haynes walking in what she called "a nice quiet neighborhood." Toledo said neighbors used to hear fighting from the apartment Haynes shared until recently with her boyfriend, Roberto Rodriguez.

"We used to hear her crying and screaming but no one ever really did anything," Toledo said, adding that neighbors did not want to get involved.

Haynes had a restraining order against Rodriguez, who allegedly pushed her into a glass table in June and cut her arm, then grabbed her by the throat and slapped her, according to court records. Court records also showed Rodriguez was charged with hitting Haynes in 2008 in a case that was continued without a finding.

In June, Haynes described the 24-year-old Rodriguez as her boyfriend of several years. Her landlord said Rodriguez moved out of the apartment last month.

Rodriguez was interviewed by authorities. He told WCVB-TV that Haynes was "a nice girl."

"She had her problems, you know, but nobody deserves to go (through) what she went through," he said.

Family members said she had three other children.

Her youngest, an 18-month-old girl, is in state custody, according to Department of Children and Families spokeswoman Alison Goodwin. Family members had been looking after her.

Karl Whitney, Haynes' uncle who is acting as a spokesman for the family, said Haynes' grandmother, Joanne Haynes, is raising the two other children, Jasmine, 5, and Lillian, 3.

He told the Telegram & Gazette that Haynes had picked the name Sheila Marie for her fourth child.

"We so much hope and pray whoever did this will come forward and bring the baby for medical care," Whitney told the newspaper.

Haynes' aunt, 58-year-old Sandra Grandmaison, told The Boston Herald that Haynes postponed two visits with her older children last week because she said she was having problems walking.

"She was a very sad, very young girl who never really grew up," Grandmaison said. "Darlene does not have the know-how or the ability to sense danger."

AP reporter Jeannie Nuss contributed to this report from Boston.

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/07/worcester_slay.html



Dolls and Flowers adorned the fence in front the apartment building where Haynes lived.

Authorities in Worcester seek killer in case of fetus cut from womb
|Link July 29, 2009 05:46 PM
By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

Law enforcement authorities in Worcester are looking today for the person who killed a 23-year-old pregnant woman in the city and for the woman's fetus, which may still be alive after being cut by the killer out of the victim's body.

Darlene Haynes, a mother of three, was found dead in a closet in the bedroom of her apartment Monday. Her body was taken to the medical examiner’s office in Boston, and an autopsy conducted Tuesday confirmed that she had been killed and that the fetus had been cut from her womb.

In a statement released by Worcester police Tuesday, the medical examiner’s office said that Haynes’s baby could have survived but that it would require immediate medical attention.

Haynes's uncle, Karl Whitney of Palmer, acting as a spokesman for the grieving family, said today that Haynes had already picked out a name, Sheila Marie, for her baby.

The family is hopeful that the child is still alive and that, if someone has her, they'll bring her back. If the worst has happened and the child is dead, they would like the body back so mother and daughter can be buried together, Whitney said.

Whitney said he was devastated when he learned of Haynes's death. "I just can't describe it. I was speechless. I started crying," he said.

A neighbor who lives in Haynes's building said she heard a "crazy banging" coming from Haynes's apartment at about 2 a.m. Saturday, but was simply annoyed and thought nothing of it.

Haynes was last seen Thursday, police said. On Monday, residents in her building on Southgate Street called the landlord to report a strong odor coming from her second-floor apartment. The victim’s body, wrapped in bedding, was found by the landlord, police said.

Haynes’s body was so mangled and decomposed that police said they could not immediately identify her gender.

Whitney said his niece had three children, 5 years old and younger, two of whom were being raised by their maternal grandmother. The third is now with Haynes's boyfriend or his family.

Haynes, who attended special education programs in the Worcester schools, was "neurologically impaired," Whitney said.

"Sometimes, unfortunately, Darlene would not make decisions correctly," he said.

Haynes's neighbor said Haynes lived with an 18-month-old daughter and had told her recently that she had broken up with her boyfriend and was facing eviction because she was unable to pay her bills. "She had nowhere to go," the neighbor said, describing Haynes as immature, depressed, and very lonely.

The neighbor said she became concerned when Haynes's cat came to her apartment on Sunday, looking for food, and summoned Worcester police. An officer knocked on the door and looked in the window of Haynes's apartment at about 2 p.m. Sunday, but took no action, she said.

The cause of Haynes's death is not yet known, but Worcester Detective Captain Edward J. McGinn Jr. told the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester Tuesday that Haynes had also sustained head trauma.

“Detectives are searching for this fetus,’’ police said in a statement last night.

The newspaper reported that Haynes dropped her one-year-old daughter off at her boyfriend’s house on Thursday.

Worcester police spokesman Sergeant Kerry Hazelhurst had a three-word description of the state of the investigation this morning. "No new developments," he said.

The Telegram & Gazette identified Haynes's boyfriend as Roberto C. Rodriguez, 24. Haynes had an active restraining order against her longtime boyfriend, whom she accused of pushing her into a glass table on June 24 and ripping the phone off the wall so she could not call police, the newspaper said.

Rodriguez is not named as a suspect in Haynes’s slaying.

He is due in court today to answer to charges of aggravated assault and battery and intimidation of a witness in the June 24 case. In a statement released by Worcester police, the medical examiner’s office said that Haynes’s baby could have survived but that it would require immediate medical attention.

Anyone with information on the case or the whereabouts of the baby is urged to call Worcester detectives at 508-799-8651.

Martin Finucane of the Globe staff and Globe correspondents John M. Guilfoil and Maria Chutchian contributed to this report.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535442,00.html
Boyfriend Makes Plea for Return of Murdered Pregnant Mother's Baby
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Darlene Haynes

 The boyfriend of a brutally murdered woman whose fetus was carved out of her womb warned the killer to return the baby and "turn yourself in or keep running," the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported Wednesday.

Darlene Haynes, 23, was eight months pregnant when she was found mutilated and wrapped in a comforter Monday in a closet in her apartment. Her unborn daughter, whom family said she planned to name Sheila Marie, had been cut out and taken.

Her longtime on-again, off-again boyfriend, Roberto Rodriguez, whom she had an active restraining order against, said he was distraught over her killing.

"I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't think,” Rodriguez, 24, told the Telegram on Wednesday. “She hung out with the wrong crowd simply 'cause she wanted to fit in.”

Police say they have interviewed Rodriguez and he isn't a suspect in Haynes' murder or the theft of her child. It isn't clear who the child's father is.

“Turn yourself in or keep running,” Rodriguez said outside his mother's house. “The lord is going to catch up to you. Drop the kid off. Drop the kid off at a hospital.”

But the couple apparently had a tumultuous relationship.

Rodriguez is facing charges of aggravated assault and battery and intimidation of a witness. The case stems from a June 24 incident in which Haynes accused him of pushing her into a glass table and disconnecting the phone to stop her from calling police.

Court records also show that Rodriguez was charged with hitting Haynes in 2008 in a separate case that was continued without a finding.

Haysha Toledo, 17, a neighbor who said she often saw Haynes walking in what she called "a nice quiet neighborhood," said neighbors used to hear "a lot of fighting" from the apartment Haynes shared until recently with Rodriguez.

"We used to hear her crying and screaming but no one ever really did anything," Toledo said, adding that neighbors did not want to get involved.

Haynes' landlord William Thompson, who found her dead, said Rodriguez moved out of the apartment last month.
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Detectives searched hospitals and other areas Wednesday for the missing baby and for the killer.

Haynes had been dead for several days when her decomposing body was found by Thompson, who was responding to a report of a bad odor coming from inside. The body was so mutilated that police said they couldn't immediately determine her gender.

Thompson said Haynes had taken her 1-year-old daughter, Christina, to Rodriguez's home last Thursday, according to the Telegram, and the girl now is with relatives.

Haynes had two other children, Jasmine, 4, and Lilliana, 3, who live with her grandmother, the Boston Herald reported.

Haynes was last seen alive July 23. Police say the baby could survive but would need medical attention immediately.

Detective Capt. Edward McGinn Jr. told the Telegram that Haynes suffered head injuries in the attack. The medical examiner ruled Haynes' death a homicide, but the exact cause won't be known until toxicology tests are complete.

Haynes' aunt, Sandra Grandmaison, told the Herald she last talked to her niece two weeks ago. She said she was a troubled young woman who never graduated from high school or developed mentally.

“She was a very sad, very young girl who never really grew up,” said Grandmaison, 58. “Darlene does not have the know-how or the ability to sense danger.”

Anyone with information on the case or the whereabouts of the baby is urged to call Worcester detectives at (508) 799-8651.

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[...]Worcester police Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said cops are hunting for the fetus - whether alive or dead - by going to hospitals and urging the public to come forward if they are suspicious of anyone who appeared with a baby within the last few days.

“We were told the fetus is viable,” he said, adding that if alive the baby would need immediate medical care to survive.

Police said no Amber Alert was issued since no description of a suspect, victim or method of getaway had been established.

Sandra Grandmaison, 58, of Lowell, another aunt of the dead woman, said she last spoke with her niece two weeks ago.

She said Haynes had three children. Two of Haynes’ children, Jasmine, 4, and Lilliana, 3, live with her grandmother. Haynes had custody of the third child, Christina, 2. Haynes had dropped that girl off with an ex-boyfriend last Thursday, which is when she was last seen.

Grandmaison said Haynes, 8 months pregnant, put off two visits with her older children last week - saying she was having trouble walking. When she never called to reschedule, her family got worried.

The landlord, responding to a foul odor from her apartment Monday, discovered Haynes’ body wrapped in a blanket, police said. Grandmaison said it appears Haynes died after she suffered a heavy blow to the head which fractured her skull.

“I just hope she was at peace,” before they removed the fetus, Grandmaison said. “I hope she didn’t feel anything.”

Joanne Haynes, the grandmother of the slain woman, said she has an ultrasound picture of her fourth great-grandchild by Haynes. She said when Darlene Haynes was a child, she was awarded custody of her and has also cared for two of her children since they were little. She choked back tears when she said that Darlene had picked out a name for the baby, but never told her family what the name was.

“She wanted to surprise us,” Grandmaison said.

Grandmaison said Darlene Haynes led a troubled life. She said while a loving person, Darlene Haynes did not develop intellectually and never graduated high school.

“She was a very sad, very young girl who never really grew up,” she said. “Darlene does not have the know-how or the ability to sense danger.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/reg...ome&position=4

i got this from the dreamin' demon site this morning..

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Baby has been found ALIVE!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535540,00.html

Baby Cut From Murdered Massachusetts Mother's Womb Found in New Hampshire
A baby cut from the womb of a woman found dead Monday in a Massachusetts apartment has been found alive in New Hampshire, police said Wednesday night.

Julie A. Corey, 35, who was arrested and charged as being a fugitive from justice, and a mal acquaintenance were found with the baby in Plymouth, N.H., the Worcester Telegram reported Wednesday.

The child appeared to be in good health and was being evaluated at a New Hampshire hospital, the newspaper reported.

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Although somewhat bittersweet I am thrilled the baby has been found safe. May her Mother rest in peace.

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Jul 30, 2009 7:37 am  Stolen Baby Found Alive, Woman Arrested

A baby girl who was stolen from her murdered mother's womb in Worcester has been found alive in New Hampshire.

A woman is now under arrest.

BABY IN 'GOOD HEALTH'

The girl appeared to be in "fairly good health" at a New Hampshire hospital, Worcester Police Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said Wednesday night.

Julie Corey, 35, of Worcester was arrested in Plymouth, N.H., where police found her with the infant Wednesday.  She was with an unidentified man.  Police told WBZ he was not arrested.

Corey was charged as a fugitive from justice and will be arraigned in district court in Concord, N.H., on Thursday.

KILLER A MYSTERY

Investigators have not said if they think Corey killed the mother, 23-year-old Darlene Haynes. She has not been charged with murder.

Corey told acquaintances that she delivered the baby sometime late Thursday or early Friday at an undisclosed hospital, and by later Friday was showing the newborn off to acquaintances, police said.

"Some friends became a little concerned about how she got home so early after just giving birth," Hazelhurst said.

BABY'S TRIP

Police said Corey had reportedly gone to New Hampshire to relocate. A newspaper report said she arrived at a Plymouth homeless shelter Tuesday night.

She told workers there that the girl was 6 days old and identified herself as the mother but had no information on the child, according to the Union Leader in New Hampshire.

Corey was arrested Wednesday as she tried to leave the shelter with the infant after workers alerted police and a nurse began photographing the baby with her cell phone, the report said.

Haynes was eight months pregnant and had been missing since last Thursday.

Police say Corey was an acquaintance of Haynes, but they don't know how she ended up with the newborn.

Haynes' body was found by her landlord Monday after a "horrifying smell" led him to her apartment in Worcester.

Her decomposing body was wrapped in bedding in a closet. Her death was ruled a homicide.

The exact cause of Haynes' death has yet to be determined pending toxicology tests, but Worcester said the autopsy indicated Haynes suffered head injuries and had been dead for several days.

THE BOYFRIEND

Haynes had a restraining order against her boyfriend, 24-year-old Roberto Rodriguez, who allegedly pushed her into a glass table in June and cut her arm, then grabbed her by the throat and slapped her, according to court records.

He is due in court Thursday on previous assault charges and is not charged in the murder.

Court records also showed Rodriguez was charged with hitting Haynes in 2008 in a case that was continued without a finding.

In June, Haynes described Rodriguez as her boyfriend of several years. Her landlord said Rodriguez moved out of the apartment last month.

3 OTHER CHILDREN

Haynes had three other children.

Her youngest, an 18-month-old girl, is in state custody, according to Department of Children and Families spokeswoman Alison Goodwin. Family members had been looking after her.

Karl Whitney, Haynes' uncle who is acting as a spokesman for the family, said Haynes' grandmother, Joanne Haynes, is raising the two other children, Jasmine, 5, and Lillian, 3.

He told WBZ that Haynes had planned to name her fourth child Sheila Marie.

"We did get the baby. That was the key here. This is the best case scenario out of this tragedy," Hazelhurst said. "We have the child, and it appears to be healthy."  http://wbztv.com/local/stolen.baby.found.2.1107235.html

[Monkey with Class]

Baby has been found ALIVE!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535540,00.html

Baby Cut From Murdered Massachusetts Mother's Womb Found in New Hampshire
A baby cut from the womb of a woman found dead Monday in a Massachusetts apartment has been found alive in New Hampshire, police said Wednesday night.

Julie A. Corey, 35, who was arrested and charged as being a fugitive from justice, and a mal acquaintenance were found with the baby in Plymouth, N.H., the Worcester Telegram reported Wednesday.

The child appeared to be in good health and was being evaluated at a New Hampshire hospital, the newspaper reported.

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WOW.   Amazing the baby lived.   What a  sad case.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32200999/
Woman accused of cutting out fetus arraigned
Thirty-five-year-old from Worcester, Mass., held on $2 million bail
July 30, 2009
WORCESTER, Mass. - A woman accused of cutting a baby girl from her mother's womb in Massachusetts has been arraigned on a fugitive from justice charge in New Hampshire and is being held on $2 million bail.

The baby was in good condition Thursday at at a New Hampshire hospital, officials said.

Thirty-five-year-old Julie Corey of Worcester, Mass., appeared in Concord District Court via video from the county jail Thursday morning, a day after she was arrested at a homeless shelter in Plymouth, N.H.
She did not waive extradition to be brought back to Massachusetts. The judge scheduled a hearing for Aug. 30. The man who was taken into custody with Corey, 27-year-old Alex Dion, was released to a family member.

Corey appears to have lived in the same apartment building as the slain woman, public records show.

She told acquaintances that she delivered the baby sometime late Thursday or early Friday at an undisclosed hospital, and by later Friday was showing the newborn off to acquaintances, police said.

She was arrested after acquaintances became suspicious of her claims.

'Horrifying smell'
The body of the girl's mother, Darlene Haynes, was found Monday in her Worcester, Mass., apartment. She was eight months pregnant.

Her body was found by her landlord, William Thompson, who said a "horrifying smell" led him to her apartment, where he found her body wrapped in bedding in a closet. Her death was ruled a homicide.

[Tina Bee]

I'm so happy that they found this baby alive and well!

It's tragic that Darlene was killed in such a horrific manner. It was reported that she was a very depressed woman with mental issues. On NG last night they said she had the mentality of a 12 year old.

I wonder why no one was looking out for her, especially if she was 8 months pregnant with her 3rd child at such a young age and not even married.

I hope baby Shelia goes on to live a productive life and that she get's to live in a permanent residence with her 3 other sisters.

[MuffyBee]

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Woman with baby cut from womb claimed pregnancy
July 30, 2009
By HOLLY RAMER (AP) – 31 minutes ago
CONCORD, N.H. — Prosecutors in Massachusetts say the woman found with an infant who had been cut out of her friend's womb had convinced her family and friends that she was pregnant.

Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. says Julie Corey's boyfriend told authorities that Corey was nine months' pregnant.

The body of Corey's friend, Darlene Haynes, was found Monday in her Worcester apartment by her landlord. Haynes was eight months' pregnant.

Corey had the 4-pound baby girl with her when she was arrested at a shelter in Plymouth, N.H., Wednesday. She is charged with kidnapping, but has not been charged in Haynes' murder. She is being held on $2 million bail in New Hampshire.

Early said authorities are still investigating whether anyone else was involved.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Prosecutors in Massachusetts say the woman found with an infant who had been cut out of her friend's womb had convinced her family and friends that she was pregnant.

Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. says Julie Corey's boyfriend told authorities that Corey was nine months' pregnant.

The body of Corey's friend, Darlene Haynes, was found Monday in her Worcester apartment by her landlord. Haynes was eight months' pregnant.

Corey had the 4-pound baby girl with her when she was arrested at a shelter in Plymouth, N.H., Wednesday. She is charged with kidnapping, but has not been charged in Haynes' murder. She is being held on $2 million bail in New Hampshire.

Early said authorities are still investigating whether anyone else was involved.

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http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090731confused_beau_thought_baby_was_his_girlfriend_accused_of_snatching_infant/srvc=home&position=also
‘Confused’ beau thought baby was his
Girlfriend accused of snatching infant
By Laura Crimaldi
Friday, July 31, 2009 - Updated 7m ago

NEW BABY: Julie A. Corey and her boyfriend, Alex Dion, are seen with the baby believed to have been stolen from the womb of murder victim Darlene Haynes.

WORCESTER - The boyfriend of a Worcester woman implicated in a gruesome baby snatching tells the Herald he was convinced he was a new father.

“I’m so confused. I don’t know what to think. I thought I had a brand-new daughter,” said Alex Dion, 27, the boyfriend of kidnapping suspect Julie Corey. “I don’t know if it’s hit me yet.”

In an exclusive Herlad interview yesterday, Dion detailed his version of how the alleged abduction of a baby believed to belong to murder victim Darlene Haynes went down.
Corey, 35, was charged as a fugitive in New Hampshire on a Massachusetts kidnapping charge yesterday. No one has been charged with Haynes’ murder. Dion, who was released after questioning, was not charged and insists he had no idea the newborn baby girl his girlfriend brought home last Friday morning was the one cops believe was ripped from Haynes’ womb. Police say they have not ruled out any potential suspects in the case.

Dion, who dated Corey on and off for two years, said Wednesday’s arrest caught him by surprise. He and Corey were parked outside the Bridge House homeless shelter in Plymouth, N.H., Wednesday with the newborn they were calling Alida Nevaeh Dion when cops surrounded their car with guns drawn.

“We were sitting in the car and we were talking and the baby was in the car seat,” Dion said. “I look up and I see a gun in my face.”

The baby girl was taken away in an ambulance to a New Hampshire hospital and later brought to Massachusetts, where the Department of Children and Families took custody of the child. A custody hearing is set for Monday.

Police took Dion and Corey separately to state police barracks in Concord, N.H., where Dion said he learned for the first time that the infant might not be his. Cops told him he was in the middle of a murder investigation.

“I knew that Julie had problems, but I never imagined that she was capable of that,” Dion said. “I don’t want to hear from (Corey) or see her ever again.”

Dion said Corey told him she was pregnant after a breakup in late October. Up until then, they had been sharing an apartment at 94 Southgate St., the building where Haynes’ mutilated body was found in her apartment Monday. Dion and Corey later moved to nearby Henry Terrace but stayed in touch with Haynes.

Last Thursday, Corey told Dion she was taking his car to give Haynes a ride to the store, he said.

Haynes’ downstairs neighbor, Agnes Brady, 65, told the Herald she saw Haynes get into the car with Haynes’ daughter, Kristine, 18 months, and Corey. Dion said Corey came home later that night, then said she was going out again to visit a friend in Marlboro.

Later that night, Dion said Corey called several times. First, she told him she was having labor pains, then that her water broke. Finally, she told him she had had a baby girl at a hospital in Framingham.

“It was very beautiful. Very beautiful,” Dion said.

The couple showed off the baby to Dion’s family over the weekend in Worcester before heading up to Warner, N.H., to show the infant to Corey’s parents. Dion, unemployed for about a year after losing a job at Jefferson Rubber, said the couple planned to move to New Hampshire with their new baby.

Dion said he took the infant to see a doctor in New Hampshire. He said the baby weighed 4 pounds, 13 ounces, and the doctor told him she was in perfect health apart from a spot of jaundice.
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“I took very good care of that baby while she was in my care,” said Dion, a father of two children, ages 7 and 8, whose mother is divorcing him

. After visiting Corey’s parents in Warner, N.H., the couple checked into a motel for Sunday and Monday and went to the shelter on Tuesday, where they were arrested the next day.

Of Corey’s purported pregnancy, Dion said, “She had to me what looked like a belly and everything. She had my family and her family believing she was pregnant.”
Others have said they were convinced Corey was pregnant. The couple’s former downstairs neighbor, Randy LaRose, 34, said he even felt a child kicking in Corey’s womb.

“You cannot fake a pregnancy as she was,” he said. “How did she get her stomach to kick me?”

Dion said Corey even showed him a doctor’s note confirming the pregnancy, so Corey could get Women, Infants and Children benefits.

But in retrospect, he said, he saw signs he was being hoodwinked.

“I used to ask when would we go to the doctor, and she’d always have an excuse,” he said, adding that she told him different due dates - first June 20 and then July 4. Later, she told Dion she was scheduled for a cesarean section. She then told him it was canceled.

“I have two other children, and a lot of her pregnancy didn’t seem normal to me,” Dion said.

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CONCORD, N.H.  —  The boyfriend of the woman accused of kidnapping a baby girl who had been cut from her murdered mother's womb says he was convinced he was the infant's father.

Alex Dion, who was with Julie Corey when she was arrested in New Hampshire on Wednesday, tells the Boston Herald that Corey told him she was pregnant shortly after a breakup in October.

He says Corey told him she gave birth early on July 24.

Dion says he thought he had a "brand-new daughter" and was surprised when police with guns drawn surrounded the car that he, Corey and the baby were in outside a New Hampshire homeless shelter.

Dion was released after questioning. Corey, 35, remains jailed. Authorities are investigating the death of 23-year-old Darlene Haynes, whose mutilated body was found Monday in her apartment.

LIVESHOTS: Tragedy and One Small Blessing

Meanwhile, several people are seeking custody of the baby, a prosecutor said.

Corey of Worcester, Mass., was ordered held on $2 million bail in New Hampshire on Thursday, one day after being found with a 4-pound baby girl at a homeless shelter.

She is accused of kidnapping the infant carried by Haynes, a mother of three who was eight months pregnant.

Authorities say she had head trauma, but an exact cause of death has not been determined. It was not until an autopsy that authorities discovered the fetus was missing.

Neighbors say Corey and Dion used to live in the apartment building where Haynes' body was found.

Dion's relatives told the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester that they met the baby at a family gathering Saturday, and something didn't seem quite right. They told the newspaper Corey said she had been in labor for 20 minutes and returned home five hours later.

She appeared to be breast-feeding under a blanket although there was a bottle of formula nearby. The baby's umbilical cord also did not look like it had been cut by a doctor and was tied with a ribbon, not a clamp, they said.

Corey said little during a hearing Thursday in Concord District Court, where she appeared via video from jail. Judge Gerard Boyle ordered all police affidavits in the case sealed and scheduled a hearing for Aug. 30.

Corey has not been charged in Haynes' death, and Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said investigators are still trying to determine who was involved.

Corey and Dion knew Haynes through Roberto Rodriguez, her estranged boyfriend and father of her 18-month-old daughter, who is now in state custody.

Relatives say Haynes had two other children, Jasmine, 5, and Lillian, 3, who are being raised by her mother.

The baby was in good health and is in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, Early said. A custody hearing is scheduled for Monday in Worcester Juvenile Court. Early said several people are seeking custody of the baby.

Haynes' uncle Karl Whitney, acting as a family spokesman, said it was too early to condemn Corey.

"At this point in time, I've got to be grateful to her because she kept the baby alive," he said.

Corey, Dion and the baby arrived at the homeless shelter in Plymouth, about 40 miles north of Concord, Tuesday night, director Catherine Bentwood confirmed. She said the girl looked comfortable. Corey identified herself as the mother and agreed to have the baby seen by a local pediatrician.

Bentwood said the shelter received a call about Wednesday afternoon asking if staffers could keep Corey there. Officers arrived shortly afterward and arrested her.

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Darlene Haynes



Julie Corey with an unidentified baby that is not the one police say she carved out of Massachusetts mom Darlene Haynes' womb.

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Details mount in stealing of baby
Father of suspect said he saw no sign of pregnancy
By Milton J. Valencia
Globe Staff / August 1, 2009
WARNER, N.H. - The father of Julie Corey, the Massachusetts woman accused of stealing the baby of a friend who was found dead last week, said his daughter showed no signs of pregnancy when she left his home in the spring to return to her boyfriend, even though she had already told others she was expecting.

“If she was, she was hiding it from us,’’ Earl Corey said from his mobile home near a commercial blueberry patch in this rural town about 20 miles west of Concord.

Julie Corey, 35, had lived with her parents for several months over the last year before returning to Worcester and telling acquaintances she was pregnant.

Police believe that Corey never gave birth, that she may have faked her pregnancy, and that the newborn girl she was showing off last weekend was really the daughter of Darlene Haynes, a 23-year-old mother of three who had been eight months pregnant before she was found dead in her Worcester home on Monday, her child ripped from her womb.

With “No Trespassing Signs,’’ posted outside his cluttered yard, Earl Corey asked for the family’s privacy last night, but added: “Our hearts go out to Darlene and her family. They’re in our prayers.’’ He said he had not met Haynes.

Also yesterday, the Globe learned through a law enforcement source that Corey had at least five children of her own, but that she had apparently lost custody of them. She also was once married to a man in California. It was not known yesterday where the children are living or whether the custody was voluntary or forced by child welfare officials. The children were not turned over to her parents.

That Corey never told her family that she was pregnant before reportedly showing up last weekend with the newborn adds another odd turn to the bizarre story of a woman who apparently convinced many in Worcester that she was expecting, even as their suspicions mounted.

Her boyfriend, Alex Dion, 27, told the Boston Herald in a story yesterday that after a split last year, Corey told him she was pregnant. Though she never let him attend a doctor’s visit, Corey called him early the morning of July 24 to say she was having contractions. Within hours, she had returned to their Worcester home, baby in hand, he told the Herald.

Dion told WBZ-TV yesterday that he was fooled. “Either she’s a really good actor, or I’m as stupid as you can be,’’ he said. “She looked like she was pregnant. She had a belly. She showed symptoms. She acted like she had cravings.’’

He felt what he thought was a fetus kicking, Dion said. “I really thought it was. I don’t know what to think. I’m really confused. I feel bad for the baby’s father. I feel bad for Darlene’s family. I wish this never happened. If I had known what happened, I would have turned her in a long time ago.’’

Corey’s neighbors told the Globe that she had kept the newborn close to her as she began showing her off July 24, the day after Haynes was last seen. Haynes’ badly decomposed body was discovered in her bedroom closet. On Tuesday, a medical examiner discovered that she had been pregnant and that the baby had been taken.

An investigation quickly led to Corey, after acquaintances told police of the suspicions surrounding her pregnancy. She never seemed to go to the doctor, and she had repeatedly changed her due date. Corey was arrested at a homeless shelter in New Hampshire on Wednesday and is being held on $2 million cash bail on suspicion of kidnapping. She is fighting extradition to Massachusetts.

She has not been charged in Haynes’s death, which remains under investigation, but law enforcement officials have told the Globe they are considering a motive of a woman so driven to have a baby that she could kill a friend and take one from her womb. Such cases have happened before, for example, in June in Oregon.

Also yesterday, the state Committee for Public Counsel Services appointed former prosecutor Louis P. Aloise to represent Corey on the kidnapping charge.

Aloise, who has handled some of the most high profile cases in Worcester in recent years, said yesterday that he and law partner Michael Wilcox plan to meet with Corey in New Hampshire next week.

Until then, he put authorities on notice that she will not submit to questions unless he is present.

Aloise said that he has not seen any of the evidence in the case, but that the initial proceedings in New Hampshire will focus on whether police have evidence that the baby is Haynes’s daughter.

Police said they plan to conduct DNA tests to confirm the identity of the baby, who has been placed in state custody.

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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090801brother_worcester_woman_nabbed_in_baby-snatch_Brother: Worcester woman nabbed in baby-snatch has 5 kids
All her children
By Laura Crimaldi
Saturday, August 1, 2009 - Updated 1h ago
The older brother of the Worcester woman at the center of a grisly baby-snatching probe told the Herald that his family grieves for the kin of Darlene L. Haynes, who was found dead in her apartment Monday.

Earl Corey Jr. said his family is reeling over the kidnapping allegations leveled against Julie A. Corey, 35, who was arrested Wednesday in New Hampshire with a baby believed to have been cut from Haynes’ womb July 23.

Police still had not charged anyone with Haynes’ murder or identified any suspects as of yesterday. Corey is being held on $2 million bail and is fighting extradition from New Hampshire. A custody hearing for the baby is set for Monday.
“We all feel bad for Darlene’s family,” said Earl Corey, a father of three. “We’re all upset. My father’s a mess. My mother’s a mess. I’m so sorry that this happened.”

Corey said he was close to his sister growing up in Hudson and Marlboro, but they drifted apart after high school. She told him she was pregnant about two months ago. But Earl Corey, citing a history of erratic behavior, exaggeration and misrepresentations, said his family had doubts. Saturday, she called to tell him about the newborn she was calling Alida Nevaeh Dion, forwarding digital images of her.

“I can’t say I’m surprised at this, but I’m upset,” said Corey. “I don’t know why she would do this. She had five kids. She had every opportunity to keep them.”

Probate court records show that Julie Corey gave birth to her first child in 1991 when she was 17. A baby girl followed a year later.

On July 8, 1995, Julie Corey married the father of those children, Herbert N. Fernandez, now 35, in Westboro. The couple moved to California in early 1996, where she gave birth to another boy in December of that year, probate court records show.

In 1997, Julie Corey moved back to the Bay State and filed for a divorce at the end of 1998.

Her brother said that she met another man in California and had two more children with him. Like Fernandez, the man was a native of Guatemala. Earl Corey said his sister lived with him in Guatemala and became proficient in Spanish. That man has custody of one of their two children in Guatemala, he said. Fernandez has custody of two of his children with Julie Corey.

“Those two guys worked very hard,” said Earl Corey. He said those relationships seemed to have a stabilizing effect on his sister’s life.

Julie Corey moved in with her father in New Hampshire last fall after breaking up with her boyfriend, Alex Dion, 27. She returned to Worcester in March, claiming she was pregnant with Dion’s child. She has not been raising any of her five children recently.

“She got a lot worse when she moved to Worcester. She moved to my father’s house. She had a chance to get away from that, but she went right back to it,” said Corey. “She had a lot of chances to better herself, but she didn’t.”
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