Criminal Identification (BCI)

Baby Jane DOE

Unsolved Homicide Cold Case Tip Hotline: 833-DPS-SAFE (833-377-7233)
  • Agency Case #: SO 2022-41680
  • Case Status: ACTIVE
  • Agency: Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office
  • Ethnicity/Race: White
  • Gender: Female
  • type: unsolvedhomicide

On January 6, 1956, a teenager found the badly decomposed body of a newborn baby girl in Cottonwood Creek Canyon, just outside of Murray City limits. She appeared to be less than 24 hours old, about 2 or 3 weeks premature. It was determined the baby likely entered the icy creek while dead, and could have been there for up to a month. There were no signs of trauma or violence to the body. Baby Jane Doe was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Please contact the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office – Det. Pender – at 385-468-9816