The True Crime Hour

Fetal abduction cases specify to the infrequent crime of child abduction by abducting of an at term pregnant woman and removal of the fetus through a rough cesarean section (also known as c-section).

Here are 4 cases of fetal abduction:

1. Twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, was 8 months pregnant when she vanished in August 2017 from her home in Fargo, North Dakota. Her body was discovered nine days later, swathed in plastic and drifting in a nearby river. Brooke Crews (the upstairs neighbor) pleaded guilty to killing Savanna and slicing her unborn child out of her belly. Brooke said Savanna was still breathing when she carried out the cesarean on her. Savanna’s child (a girl) survived. Brooke was convicted to life in prison without parole. Brooke’s boyfriend (William Hoehn) was convicted to 20 years in prison for his role in the murder.
2. 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was 9 months pregnant when she was baited to a house in the Scottsdale neighborhood of Chicago with the vow of free baby clothes in April 23, 2019. She was then suffocated. Her unborn baby was slit from her womb after the killing. 46-year-old Clarisa Figueroa (at the residence) afterwards called emergency services and expressed that she had just bore a baby. The baby boy expressed to be in critical condition. Marlen’s dead body was discovered on the premises on May 15, 2019. The baby boy (whose name was Yovanny Jadiel Lopez) passed away few weeks later from brain damage. Both Clarisa and her daughter Desiree were convicted with first-degree murder amidst other counts. On April 26, 2024, Clarisa was convicted to 50 years in prison without parole after pleading guilty. On May 29, 2024, Desiree was convicted to 30 years in prison without parole after also pleading guilty.
3. Twenty-nine-year-old Taylor Parker murdered Reagan Simmons-Hancock (whom she knew) in 2020, to abduct the anticipatory mother’s unborn daughter. The baby (Braxlynn Sage Hancock) did not live after being slit from Reagan’s womb. Reagan’s 3-year-old daughter was in the house at the duration of the crime. Taylor Parker was convicted to death for the killing of Reagan Simmons-Hancock on November 29, 2020. She was convicted to death by lethal injection in November 2022.
4. 22-year-old Anqelikque Sulton was killed in NYC in 2015 by her long-time friend Ashleigh Wade. The two had renewed connected on Facebook over their pregnancies. But Ashleigh (22) had persuaded her boyfriend and everybody else that she was pregnant utilizing a sonogram that she probably downloaded from the internet. Ashleigh had reportedly suffered a hysterical pregnancy (a phantom pregnancy that she may literally appear with symptoms connected with pregnancy), but maintained that she lost her baby. Anqelikque was impaled to death in her Wakefield apartment after acquiring her throat cut. Ashleigh utilize pairing scissors to take out the baby who survived, and proceeded the baby as her own daughter. Ashleigh was apprehended nearly promptly after her crime and was found guilty of murder and abducting on November 24, 2017 and convicted to 40 years to life.