{"id":92072,"date":"2019-10-22T23:28:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T23:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/body-found-northwest-of-durango-was-stillborn-infant\/"},"modified":"2019-10-22T23:28:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T23:28:29","slug":"body-found-northwest-of-durango-was-stillborn-infant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/body-found-northwest-of-durango-was-stillborn-infant\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found northwest of Durango was stillborn infant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=00b0e3b1-6609-404a-b9bc-631de187f91c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Authorities said Tuesday a body found last weekend northwest of Durango was that of a stillborn infant.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the body of the female infant was found in a forested area between the 3800 block of County Road 205 and the 3800 block of County Road 203.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Burke, spokesman for the Sheriff\u2019s Office, said a hiker discovered the body around 3 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy conducted Tuesday morning revealed the child was stillborn after a pathologist noted several indicators, said La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Burke said as of 3 p.m. Tuesday investigators hadn\u2019t identified the parents of the child.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office initially reported the incident was being <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/298804-body-found-northwest-of-durango\">investigated as a homicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Burke said several investigators were working the case, which is no longer considered a homicide investigation. Investigators are seeking anyone with information about who may be related to the infant.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said DNA and hair evidence would be sent to a lab and evaluated in the hopes of finding the parents. She said it appeared the infant had been abandoned for a day or two at most.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said the infant\u2019s cause of death was a birth defect linked to brain damage, and the mother essentially had a miscarriage.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with more information is asked to call Sheriff\u2019s Investigator Jim Hendricks at 382-7018.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators are trying to identify parents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5737,5916,5736,5735,5741],"tags":[28,1901,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-92072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-la-plata-county-sheriff","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","tag-headlines","tag-la-plata-county-sheriff","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92072"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=92072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}