Law enforcement authorities in Worcester are looking today for the person who killed a 23-year-old pregnant woman in the city and for the woman's fetus, which may still be alive after being cut by the killer out of the victim's body.
Darlene Haynes, a mother of three, was found dead in a closet in the bedroom of her apartment Monday. Her body was taken to the medical examiner’s office in Boston, and an autopsy conducted Tuesday confirmed that she had been killed and that the fetus had been cut from her womb.
In a statement released by Worcester police Tuesday, the medical examiner’s office said that Haynes’s baby could have survived but that it would require immediate medical attention.
The family is hopeful that the child is still alive and that, if someone has her, they'll bring her back. If the worst has happened and the child is dead, they would like the body back so mother and daughter can be buried together, Whitney said.
