"That's when I saw the baby's face. I was shocked. She was swaddled really tight. She was perfect, lying there as calm as can be. She got examined there. She was beautiful and healthy. Doctors told them the baby was about two or three hours old when she was left in the shopping cart."
"I think we were being watched. They were looking for the right people. It was just the right time and the right place. Gilleland and Marshall both believed the baby's mother had spotted them and thought they were a safe pair with whom to leave the child, noting that there were two apartment buildings behind the parking lot."
On August 20, 1972, Rita Marshall and Darlene Gilleland discovered a newborn baby in a brown paper bag inside a shopping cart at Westgate Shopping Center in Fairview Park, Ohio. The infant, dressed in a yellow onesie and wrapped in a blue blanket, was approximately two to three hours old. Marshall immediately called police, and five patrol cars arrived within minutes. The women accompanied officers and the baby to the hospital, where medical examination confirmed the child was healthy. Marshall and Gilleland believed the mother had deliberately chosen them, possibly observing from nearby apartment buildings. The baby was temporarily named Jeanne Westgate, combining the nurse's name and the mall's name. The women returned to visit the infant the following day.
Read at The Washington Post
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