Mystery grows as four people are found dead hours after infant was abandoned on a stranger’s lawn

A child was found abandoned on a stranger’s front lawn in Tennessee. Now four people have been found dead - (Dyer County Sheriff's Office)

The police investigation into a young child who was abandoned on a stranger’s front lawn has grown more mysterious, after Tennessee police reported that four people had been found dead just hours later.

Dyer County Sheriff’s Office did not say explicitly how the two cases were linked, but did provide information about the deaths in an update to a post concerning the child.