BLAINE, Minn. — She was so small. She was found dead, barely a day old, at a road in Blaine, Minnesota.

A passing motorist found her and brought her to the authorities, who arranged her burial.

Her name was unknown. So were her parents. It all made for a tragic mystery.

A local anti-abortion group arranged for a funeral and agreed to pay for her burial.

She had no name, so they gave her one: Rachel Marie Doe.

The child's death would make her, for a time, an icon in the anti-abortion world. But more answers, about her parents, about why she ended up alone on a cold highway, would go unknown — until now.

On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the Anoka County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Homicide Unit announced its investigators had used DNA tools to locate the infant's parents. They had interviewed t

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