Lee Ann Diegl, 58, was arrested by Maine police outside her home in Lowell, Massachusetts on Monday, ending a 36-year mystery. The case began after the body of Daigle’s baby was discovered by a dog who then dragged the body of “Baby Jane Doe” about 700 feet to the dog owner’s home in Frenchville, Maine, state police said. “He kept knocking on the door window to get back in,” dog owner Armand Pelletier told Bangor Daily News in 2014. “He kept knocking and after a while I went to look and I could not believe what I saw. “I saw what looked like a small rag doll, but then we saw it was a frozen baby.” In 1985, Daigle left her newborn baby on a pebble in sub-zero temperatures. Aroostook County Courthouse The dog was a Siberian Husky named Paca, the local store reported. State police detectives discovered the baby was born and then left heartless at sub-zero temperatures in a gravel pit. “It was so cold, just very, very cold,” Maine Police Chief Charles Love told Bangor Daily News in 2014. “I was not the first police officer on the scene, but I was one of the first. I was walking on stage, trying to gather information. The baby’s body was discovered by Armand Pelletier’s dog, a Siberian husky named Paca. WGME “It was so quiet on that gravel and it looked like a vehicle had come in, as the tracks were very clear in the snow. Right next to them was clearly a series of dog tracks. “I turned and followed those footprints right back to the house, where the baby had fallen right next to the door.” The case was eventually settled with the help of advances in DNA technology and genealogy. “This case was the culmination of decades of investigations by dozens of retirees and now detectives who never gave up on finding answers and justice for Baby Jane Doe,” Maine police said in a Facebook post announcing the arrest. Two Maine detectives “chased every driver and spent countless hours working and following new evidence that helped identify Baby Jane Jane Do’s mother,” state police said. With Post cables
