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The Parents Were Shocked That Their Daughter Hid Her Pregnancy in Their Faces, Then She Buried Their Grandchild in Their Backyard
The Richardson tragedy
The police banged on the Richardson residence’s door.
Scott answered the door.
The police told him they needed to talk to his daughter, Brooke, about something she had witnessed.
Brooke was brought down to the police station.
Then they interviewed her.
Lt. John Faine : We got a call from the doctor’s office, OK? And according to them on April 26th you found out you were pregnant…
You went back to that doctor’s office?
Brooke: Mm-hmm…
And I told her what had happened. That I had to have the baby, and it wasn’t alive.
I didn’t kill her though.
She just kind of came out(in the bathroom) and I tried, I tried. (There) I’m trying to hold her and see if she’s breathing, but she doesn’t have a heartbeat.
Lt. John Faine: So now what do you do when you realize that she’s not going to make it?
Brooke: I have to bury her…I couldn’t tell anybody.
