Missing woman found dead; neighbor had newborn believed to be hers
August 29, 2017 by admin
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By DAVE KOLPACK
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The body of a young woman who was eight months’ pregnant when she was last seen was found Sunday by kayakers on the Red River.
A newborn baby believed to be hers had been found three days earlier in the apartment of her neighbors. That couple now are suspects in the woman’s death.
The body of Savanna Greywind, 22, of Fargo, was found at 5:44 p.m. Sunday by kayakers investigating a large object wrapped in plastic that was hung up on a log in the river, Fargo Police Chief David Todd told reporters during an impromptu news conference.
Greywind had last been seen by her family when she left their apartment on Aug. 19, a Saturday evening. She told them she was going to help an upstairs neighbor who said she needed a model while sewing a dress. Greywind never came home.
On Thursday, police found a healthy, newborn girl in the neighbors’ apartment. Those neighbors, Brooke Lynn Crews, 38, and William Henry Hoehn, 32, were arrested.
They are being held at the Cass County Jail and were scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon to be formally charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and giving false information, said Cass County State’s Attorney Birch Burdick.
Around the time Greywind’s bdy was found, Todd said, a farmstead on the Minnesota side of the river was being searched, and suspicious items were found that led authorities to believe it might be a crime scene.
Todd did not say whether there were signs of trauma to the body.
The quest to find Greywind intensified when police found the baby Thursday and arrested Crews and Hoehn on suspicion of kidnapping. The suspects indicated to police that the infant was Greywind’s but would not answer questions about her whereabouts.
DNA testing is being conducted to confirm that the newborn is Greywind’s baby. Forensic experts are working to determine the manner of birth.
Relatives of Crews told Forum News Service that the woman has at least seven children. Hoehn, according to court records, has at least two.
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