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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Isabel Keane

How a Costco receipt helped tie a woman to the death of a baby found in a dumpster in California

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.

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