{"id":14674,"date":"2025-10-25T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14674\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:10:07","slug":"woman-being-taken-for-questioning-after-dead-infant-was-found-in-trunk-of-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14674\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman being taken for questioning after dead infant was found in trunk of vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPittsburgh Police are investigating after a dead infant was found inside the trunk of a car on Pittsburgh&#8217;s North Side. Police say Pittsburgh officers received information from Ohio Township Police that a female from that borough had arrived at a Pittsburgh hospital after having given birth to a baby. However, according to police, she did not have the baby with her. The woman then left the hospital against the advice of doctors. She was questioned about the infant&#8217;s location, and officers were directed to a parked vehicle on Federal Street in Pittsburgh&#8217;s North Side. Officers found the infant wrapped in clothing and placed in a plastic bag in the trunk. The baby was pronounced dead at the scene. The investigation led officers to a home on Marshall Avenue that the woman was known to frequent. At that location, police say they found evidence that &#8220;a baby had likely been recently born in the residence.&#8221;The woman is being treated at a hospital and will be taken to police headquarters for questioning once she is medically cleared.  The medical examiner&#8217;s office is working to determine the cause of death of the infant. Police say their investigation is ongoing.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Police are investigating after a dead infant was found inside the trunk of a car on Pittsburgh&#8217;s North Side. <\/p>\n<p>Police say Pittsburgh officers received information from Ohio Township Police that a female from that borough had arrived at a Pittsburgh hospital after having given birth to a baby. <\/p>\n<p>However, according to police, she did not have the baby with her. The woman then left the hospital against the advice of doctors. <\/p>\n<p>She was questioned about the infant&#8217;s location, and officers were directed to a parked vehicle on Federal Street in Pittsburgh&#8217;s North Side. Officers found the infant wrapped in clothing and placed in a plastic bag in the trunk. The baby was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation led officers to a home on Marshall Avenue that the woman was known to frequent. At that location, police say they found evidence that &#8220;a baby had likely been recently born in the residence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The woman is being treated at a hospital and will be taken to police headquarters for questioning once she is medically cleared. <\/p>\n<p> The medical examiner&#8217;s office is working to determine the cause of death of the infant. <\/p>\n<p>Police say their investigation is ongoing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Police are investigating after a dead infant was found inside the trunk of a car on Pittsburgh&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1304,11119,11120,11121,11122,11123,5567,73,75,74,745,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-14674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-1304","9":"tag-baby","10":"tag-dead-baby","11":"tag-dead-infant","12":"tag-federal-street","13":"tag-newborn-death","14":"tag-north-side","15":"tag-pittsburgh","16":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","17":"tag-pittsburgh-news","18":"tag-pittsburgh-police","19":"tag-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}