SKIDMORE, Mo. - An eight-months-pregnant woman was slain in her home, and her fetus was then cut from her womb, authorities said. Believing the infant survived, they issued an Amber Alert early Friday.

Bobbi Jo Stinnett's mother found her body Thursday afternoon. The 23-year-old woman had apparently been strangled. Authorities issued an alert hours later for the infant, a girl.

"The doctors who examined Bobbi Jo gave us information indicating we probably would have a live child if we could find it," Nodaway County Sheriff Ben Espey said Friday. "The child would be in danger because of being one month premature."

"Someone was wanting a baby awful bad," he had said earlier.

There were no visible signs of struggle and no indication of forced entry into Stinnett's home in this small community of 500 in the northwest corner of Missouri, the sheriff said.

"We know she was alive in the afternoon, within an hour of being found," Espey said.

Espey said investigators were looking for a car that had been reported seen in the driveway at the Stinnett home, a red two-door Honda hatchback from the late 1980s or early 1990s. Officers in neighboring Atchison County saw a car that appeared to match that description early Friday and began chasing it, but lost sight of it after its lights were turned off, he said.

Espey declined to say specifically where investigators were looking but did say the search had expanded to adjoining states.

The Missouri Major Case Squad, the Missouri State Highway Patrol and an investigation team from neighboring Buchanan County were assisting Nodaway County officials in the investigation. FBI agents who specialize in infant abductions also were being cunsulted, Espey said.

Stinnett worked at a motor factory in nearby Maryville; she was expecting her first child. Her husband was at work at the time she was killed, authorities said.

A neighbor, Bill Dragoo, said Stinnett and her husband raised dogs and "didn't bother anybody. It blows my mind that this happened. She was such a shy person. They didn't deserve this."


Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.



How SICK is that?? I can't believe there are people out there that do stuff like that!!!!

Baby found alive:
http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/6727845/

Sounds like something out of the X-Files.

I read this last night all I gotta say is that they are some sick SOB's to do that. Also read today that the baby was found, cops did good and got it done fast.

Yeah, I just read that they found the baby alive and in good health. I am glad of that!! That still irritates the heck outta me though!

Just an update on the story. They found the little girl and she is in good health. She has been returned to her father. They have arrested the crazy lady who commited the crime.

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Originally posted by SGreen84:
Just an update on the story. They found the little girl and she is in good health. She has been returned to her father. They have arrested the crazy lady who commited the crime.

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They should use this beeyotch as an example. She should be sentenced and put to death by means painfully inhumane!

You know...having thought about it a little more, I think the father/husband should be allowed to exact whatever punishment he sees fit on that crazy beeyotch that left the little girl without a mother. Where the hell do these sick people come from? Do they really think they can get away with schit like this? Like I said in my previous post, They should make an example out of her and her death should be as painful as possible.

I agree with your 100% GW. I like the idea of the father of the little girl being able to pick the punsishment for the insane murderer. As to where these people come from, your guess is as good as mine...

What I found kind of disgusting was neighbors and the pastor of the the family of the woman that did this heinous deed cashing in on it and getting their fifteen minutes of fame by appearing on talk shows and news programs. I didn't want to hear anything from that part of it..but felt simply awful for the husband/father. ...yes, it would be apropos for him to determine the punishment, imho