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Ohio Wife and Mom Lived 'Exemplary' Life for Decades. Her Secret Exposed Her as a 'Monster'

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Gail Eastwood-Ritchey confessed to leaving her newborn baby to die in the woods outside Cleveland , Ohio , in 1993 .

She was arrested in June 2019 , when investigators tied her DNA to the baby who'd died after being left for dead.

The same genetic genealogy that helped catch the Golden State Killer in 2018 has been used to solve handfuls of mysterious criminal cases around the U.S ..