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Post by Admin on Aug 14, 2015 6:42:34 GMT
As authorities in Massachusetts work to unravel the mystery of a young girl discovered dead inside a trash bag earlier this summer, new tests reveal the girl was likely from the local Boston area, authorities said. On June 25, a dog walker found a girl's body on the western shore of Deer Island in Winthrop, a peninsula in Boston Harbor opposite Logan Airport, the Massachusetts State Police said. The girl, approximately 4 years old, was found with a fleece blanket and wrapped in a trash bag. The girl has been nicknamed "Baby Doe." There were no signs of trauma, and toxicology tests found no toxins or pathogens, Massachusetts State Police spokesman Dave Procopio told ABC News. The girl's identity and her cause and manner of death remain unknown, Procopio said today, but authorities do have a new lead, thanks to pollen samples. "People collect pollen everywhere they go," Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley, told ABC News today. "In this case, where we had a child whose identity we did not know, and whose birthplace we did not know, we collected pollen from evidence at the scene and sent to a government lab." Wark said it's unusual for someone to be unidentified for this long. "From time to time we do come across unidentified remains, sometimes in the water, sometimes in rural or wooded areas. But in most cases they're identified quite rapidly," Wark said. "In this particular case we have not had that success. And that's why we're trying to reach someone who knew this little girl and encourage them to step forward, identify her and give her the dignity of a burial under her own true name."
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Post by Admin on Aug 15, 2015 2:57:11 GMT
For nearly eight weeks, investigators in Massachusetts have been struggling to solve a mystery: the identity of a little girl whose remains were found on a Boston Harbor shoreline. The case started on June 25, when a woman was walking with her dog at about 1 p.m. on Deer Island. The animal bounded away from her on the rocky shoreline to sniff a black trash bag. The woman peered into the bag and, with a quick glimpse, realized it contained a body. She alerted a bystander, who called the police. The medical examiner found that the girl was about 4 years old, with brown eyes and brown hair that was about 14 inches long. Her height was just over three feet, and she weighed about 30 pounds. She had pierced ears. She was wearing white leggings with black polka dots. Also in the bag was a zebra-print blanket that investigators believe may have been special to her. There was moisture in the bag, but it is not clear whether she was dropped on the beach and the tide washed over her, or whether she was thrown into the water and then washed up on the beach. She had not been dead long; decomposition was described as very mild. The cause of her death has not been determined. There was no physical trauma, and toxicology tests showed no poisons or pathogens. Unidentified, the child came to be known publicly as Baby Doe. Investigators call her “our girl.”
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Post by Admin on Sept 19, 2015 12:42:56 GMT
Authorities have identified a little girl known as "Baby Doe" whose body was found in a trash bag on a Boston beach three months ago, and her mother is under arrest. The girl's name was Bella Bond, said Robert DeLeo, the speaker of the Massachusetts House. The break in the case came when a tip was phoned into the Boston Police Homicide Unit. A senior New England law enforcement official told NBC News the Massachusetts State Police were then notified. Sources told WHDH, the NBC affiliate in Boston, that the girl was about to turn 3 years old. The girl's mother, Rachelle Bond, was arrested Friday in connection with the case, the official said. Her boyfriend, Michael McCarthy, is under guard at Beth Israel hospital in Boston, where police found him. He is at the hospital for reasons not related to the case. Both Rachelle Bond and McCarthy are known to police and have criminal records, a senior official said.
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Post by Admin on Sept 21, 2015 13:24:56 GMT
Joseph Amoroso said in interviews with WHDH-TV and the Boston Herald that Rachelle Bond told him her boyfriend, Michael McCarthy, fatally injured Bella Bond. Amoroso said he believes Rachelle Bond. McCarthy, 35, is charged with murder and Bond, 40, as an accessory after the fact. Neither could be reached for comment. They are to be arraigned Monday. "I know with all my heart that Rachelle Bond would never, ever do anything to hurt anybody," Amoroso told the station. "I was with the woman. This is the mother of my child." Attempts to reach family members of McCarthy were not successful Saturday. Amoroso said he has been in Florida and returned to Massachusetts in August. He said Bond stayed with him in Lynn on Thursday night and he was questioned Friday. Amoroso told the Boston Herald that he and Bond connected in a tent at Occupy Boston and broke up after he discovered she had been arrested for prostitution. He said she that when she told him the circumstances of their daughter's death, "She was very emotional, sincere through the whole things, and I believe her." img.huffingtonpost.com//asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/55fee34f1c00004800082926.jpeg?cache=u755cijAjw[/img
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Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2015 14:04:56 GMT
Bella Bond, the little girl found dead inside a plastic bag near the Boston shoreline in June, had a tumultuous start from the beginning. The little girl was conceived in a tent at Occupy Boston in 2011, her father, Joseph Amoroso, tells PEOPLE. Bella's mother's boyfriend, Michael McCarthy, 35, has been charged with murdering her, while her mother, Rachelle Bond, 40, has been charged with accessory to murder after the fact. Both pleaded not guilty at their arraignment on Monday. Amoroso says that he and Rachelle had an immediate connection when they met. "We met at Occupy Boston and had a connection," he says. "That's where Bella happened." Bella was raised in a first floor apartment at 115 Maxwell Street, a public housing building on a tight-knit block in Dorchester Center, Bella's neighbors and building management tells PEOPLE. She played on the back porch with another neighbor's little girl, neighbors say. But the the mother of the other little girl didn't recognize the forensic artist's composite sketch of Bella when she was known for several months as "Baby Doe," after her unidentified body was discovered in June.
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