New Technology Results With Mother Arrested In Texas Cold Case

A 23 year old Texas cold case finally got the break it needed because of new technology developed in the field of DNA, and thanks almost entirely to private donations, charges were finally brought against the mother of a day old baby that was abandoned in 2001, and buried with the name Angel Baby Doe.

About 10 weeks following the events of 9/11, there was a baby found wrapped in a blanket in Johnson County just south of Fort Worth. According to reports, the baby still had their umbilical cord attached, and most likely bled out following their birth earlier in the day.

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Finally, in 2022 around the time Baby Doe would have been turning 21, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office contacted the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to seek assistance in identifying family members of the baby. The teams of investigators worked for the next 15 months before finally getting Shelby Stotts to submit a DNA sample that positively identified Stotts as the mother of the baby.

New Technology Results With Mother Arrested In Texas Cold Case

At the time of Baby Doe's birth, Stotts was around 25 at the time of the birth, and thus far she has remained silent about the events of that time. Stotts is now 48 and has been charged with Second Degree Manslaughter for abandoning the Baby Doe along Briaroaks Road between the towns of Alvarado and Burleson just south of Fort Worth.