CLEVER, Missouri (KCRG) - Authorities made an arrest in a 1992 Cold Case out of Iowa City. It was in December of that year that sanitation workers found the body of a newborn in the Iowa City landfill.

32 years later, investigators identified Cindy Elder as the baby’s mother. She was arrested in Missouri, where she lives now. Prosecutors charged her with first-degree murder.

A landfill worker found the body of Baby John Doe on December 21st, 1992.

At that time, the cause of death was undetermined due to a lack of information about the labor and delivery of the newborn, who still had the placenta attached.

Now, we know the full story as to what happened and how he ended up in the landfill.

Investigators reopened the case in 2020 because of new advancements in DNA technology.

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