Isabelle Taft

2 weeks ago | spokesman.com | Isabelle Taft

One September evening in 2004, a Texas rancher noticed three buzzards circling near the road at the edge of his property. When he approached, he saw the body of an infant lying naked in the brush beside a barbed wire fence. Wayne Springer, then an investigator with the Medina County Sheriff’s Department, was among the officers called to the scene. The infant was a girl with the umbilical cord still attached. Springer knocked on doors up and down the road, looking for witnesses.

3 weeks ago | infobae.com | Isabelle Taft

GenealogyGenetics and HeredityChild AbandonmentForensic ScienceDNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)TexasMurders, Attempted Murders and HomicidesCriminal JusticeWomen and GirlsPregnancy and ChildbirthUna noche de septiembre de 2004, un ranchero de Texas observó que tres buitres daban vueltas cerca de la carretera, en el límite de su propiedad. Cuando se acercó, vio el cadáver de una bebé que yacía desnudo entre la maleza junto a una alambrada.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Isabelle Taft

As university leaders face political pressure around the country, one president in Indiana has acquiesced to many conservative plans. The sweeping changes to Indiana's public universities came suddenly this spring, with little time for debate. Republicans passed a new law that would require university boards to measure the productivity of tenured faculty. Faculty were downgraded to "advisory only" roles in university decision-making. Degree programs that graduated too few students would be closed.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Isabelle Taft

One September evening in 2004, a Texas rancher noticed three buzzards circling near the road at the edge of his property. When he approached, he saw the body of an infant lying in the brush beside a barbed wire fence. Wayne Springer, then an investigator with the Medina County Sheriff’s Department, was among the officers called to the scene. The infant was a newborn girl with the umbilical cord still attached. Springer knocked on doors up and down the road, looking for witnesses.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Isabelle Taft

Genetic genealogy is identifying the mothers of deceased newborns found abandoned, shedding light on crimes that went unsolved for years. Women now may face lengthy prison sentences for decades-old chapters of their pasts. Wayne Springer, a former investigator for Medina County, at the site in Hondo, Texas, where a deceased newborn was found. Credit...