A woman who killed her newborn and threw the baby’s body away in a California dumpster was caught — and sentenced to six years in prison — after new DNA technology and a Costco receipt tied her to the case.
In May 2009, a man collecting recycling was digging through a dumpster at an apartment complex in Union City, about 30 miles south of San Francisco, and discovered the body of a newborn baby girl, SFGate reported.