The boyfriend of a slain North Dakota woman says DNA tests confirm they are the parents of a newborn girl found in the apartment of the two people charged in the case.
Ashton Matheny, 21, told Inforum that legal custody of baby Haisley Jo hasn’t been awarded, but he believes it will happen soon. He said she has been in his care for nearly a week.
Brooke Crews and her boyfriend, William Hoehn, have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping in the death of 22-year-old Samantha LaFontaine-Greywind of Fargo.
Her body was found wrapped in plastic and duct tape in the Red River on September 3 by kayakers.
Ashton Matheny, 21 (left), the boyfriend of slain North Dakota woman Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, 22 (right), says DNA tests confirm they are the parents of a newborn girl found in the apartment of the two people charged in the case
This week, Matheny shared the first pictures of Haisley Jo, whose mother was allegedly murdered while pregnant with her by ‘womb raiders’
Brooke Crews, 38 (left), and her boyfriend William Hoehn, 32 (right), have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping in the death. Bond has been set at $2million each
Little Haisley Jo was seen publicly for the first time at LaFontaine-Greywind’s funeral on Thursday.
Matheny posted two photos of the girl on his Facebook page on Friday and Saturday. He also posted photos to his Snapchat account with comments that the newborn looked ‘just like her mother’.
LaFontaine-Greywind, was eight months pregnant when she went missing on August 19 after allegedly going to the apartment of her neighbor, Crews, who asked her to model a dress. She never returned.
Hoehn, 32, told police he came home to their bloodied apartment on August 19 and claimed Crews, 38, presented him with the baby girl saying: ‘This is our baby. This is our family.’
He said he took garbage bags containing bloody shoes and his bloody towels and disposed of them away from the apartment complex, according to court documents filed on Monday.
It is a different version to what his girlfriend claimed happened.
LaFontaine-Greywind, was eight months pregnant when she went missing on August 19 after going to the apartment of her neighbor, Crews, who asked her to model a dress. She never returned (seen two months pregnant in sonogram)
Crews (pictured) told police that LaFontaine-Greywind gave up her baby before admitting to taking advantage of the woman in an attempt to get her baby
Hoehn, (pictured), told police he came home to their bloodied apartment on August 19 and claimed Crews presented him with the baby girl saying: ‘This is our baby. This is our family’
Crews told police that LaFontaine-Greywind gave up her baby before admitting to taking advantage of the woman in an attempt to get her baby.
Experts had previously said it was possible LaFontaine-Greywind was the victim of womb raiders, people who cut babies out of pregnant women to steal them.
While womb raiding is a terrifying scenario, it’s also exceptionally rare, at less than 20 cases in the US total.
Matheny said that when LaFontaine-Greywind (pictured) became pregnant, he quit his job in Minnesota and moved back to North Dakota as the baby’s due date approached
Matheny (pictured) says once custody is awarded to him, as he believes it will, he plans to move back to Spirit Lake Reservation with his daughter
Neither Crews nor Hoehn entered pleas and their bond was set at $2million each.
Matheny had been living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, working construction, when Lafontaine-Greywind became pregnant, but quit his job and moved back to North Dakota as the baby’s due date approached, reported the Grand Forks Herald.
He says the couple had rented an apartment together and were planning to move into it on September 1.
Once custody is awarded, however, Matheny says he plans to move back to Spirit Lake Reservation with his daughter.