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ROCKFORD, Ill. -- An Illinois woman believed to be the mother of two
infants found dead in the trunk of an impounded car admitted Thursday to
leaving another baby girl to freeze to death along a rural roadside
nearly five years earlier.
After reaching an agreement with prosecutors, Katie Stockton of
Rockton pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the December 2004 death
of the infant known as Baby Crystal, who authorities believe was
Stockton's daughter.
Winnebago County State's Attorney Joe Bruscato agreed to
drop other charges in the case, which had been set to go to trial
Monday.
Neither Bruscato nor public defender David Doll commented after Thursday's hearing.
It was after Stockton's 2009 arrest in Baby Crystal's death that
investigators discovered her car had been sitting in an impound lot for a
year. They towed it to a Winnebago County Sheriff's Department facility
to search for more clues in that case, and instead found the remains of
two other infants wrapped in cloth and stuffed in separate plastic
bags.
Authorities have said DNA testing found Stockton likely also was the
mother of those two infants. She hasn't been charged in those deaths.
Stockton originally was questioned in Baby Crystal's death in 2004
after the newborn's frozen remains were discovered in a plastic bag
along a dead-end road near her parents' home. Prosecutors said that when
detectives interviewed Stockton hours after the discovery, she lifted
her shirt and asked if she looked like she had just given birth.
Stockton refused to provide a DNA sample, but detectives
investigating the death collected evidence from a cigarette butt they
saw her discard. Authorities said saliva on the cigarette butt matched
blood found on the clothing with Baby Crystal, and Stockton was
arrested.
Bruscato said further tests showed Stockton was the baby's mother with a 99.96 percent certainty.
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