ST. IGNACE, MI — A judge here determined enough evidence exists to send a 58-year-old woman to trial to face homicide charges related to the 1997 death of an infant known as “Baby Garnet,” UpNorthLive reported.
Nancy Ann Gerwatowski, who authorities said admitted she was the mother of the baby girl, had her latest hearing in the Mackinac County 92nd District Court on Tuesday, Aug. 9, the report indicated.
Baby Garnet was discovered dead and discarded in July 1997 in a septic tank in Garnet Lake Campground in Hudson Township, a community in the Upper Peninsula’s Mackinac County. At the time, the identity of her family was unknown.
In 2017, investigators with the state police and Mackinac County sheriff’s office used improved DNA-tracing technology to begin the process of identifying Baby Garnet’s family members. That investigation last month led them to interview Gerwatowski, a former Mackinac County resident who had since moved to Wyoming.
She was arrested and jailed there, then extradited to Michigan, where she was denied bail and remains in the Mackinac County Jail in St. Ignace.
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