A woman who pretended to be pregnant stole her half-sister's newborn son from a Wisconsin home and left him in a storage crate outside an Iowa gas station in frigid temperatures as police closed in, according to court documents filed Friday. Federal prosecutors in Madison charged Kristen Smith of Denver with kidnapping Friday afternoon, hours after an Iowa police chief miraculously discovered Kayden Powell, who is nearly a week old, alive and well in the plastic storage crate that morning. Police found a prosthetic pregnancy belly in Smith's car along with baby clothes, a car seat and a stroller, but no sign of Kayden,...
- 2/8/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
A newborn baby disappeared from his parents’ bedroom in the middle of the night as they slept. A day later, 6-day-old Kayden Powell was found alive and well at a gas station in a completely different state.
New parents Brianna Marshall, 18, and Bruce Powell, 23, woke up early on the morning of Feb. 6 to their worst nightmare: Kayden Powell, their then 5-day-old daughter, had completely vanished without a trace from their own bedroom in Beloit, Wisconsin. Twenty-four hours later, Kayden was found alive at a gas station one state over in West Branch, Iowa.
5-Day-Old Kayden Powell Goes Missing
Kayden disappeared from the room his parents were sleeping in during the early hours Feb. 6. The newborn’s mother, Brianna, woke up at 4:30 a.m. to find that her five-day-old baby boy was gone. To make matters worse, police reported there were no signs of a break-in at the home.
That afternoon,...
New parents Brianna Marshall, 18, and Bruce Powell, 23, woke up early on the morning of Feb. 6 to their worst nightmare: Kayden Powell, their then 5-day-old daughter, had completely vanished without a trace from their own bedroom in Beloit, Wisconsin. Twenty-four hours later, Kayden was found alive at a gas station one state over in West Branch, Iowa.
5-Day-Old Kayden Powell Goes Missing
Kayden disappeared from the room his parents were sleeping in during the early hours Feb. 6. The newborn’s mother, Brianna, woke up at 4:30 a.m. to find that her five-day-old baby boy was gone. To make matters worse, police reported there were no signs of a break-in at the home.
That afternoon,...
- 2/7/2014
- by Hollywood Life Staff
- HollywoodLife
Wisconsin investigators are celebrating a happy ending after a baby reported missing after being snatched from a crib Thursday morning was found alive, left inside a tote bag near an Iowa gas station. The 6-day-old infant, Kayden Powell, was found at about 10:15 a.m. Friday near a gas station on I-80 in West Branch, Iowa. The newborn had been swaddled in blankets inside a tote bag that was left outside in freezing temperatures, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports, noting an investigation into the abduction is continuing. "We're all very fortunate this baby is alive," G.B. Jones, an acting special...
- 2/7/2014
- by Andrea Billups
- PEOPLE.com
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