On Tuesday, authorities in Colorado charged a woman in connection with the unsolved August 1996 murder of an unidentified newborn girl, ultimately named “Baby Faith.”

The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jennifer Katalinich, 42, (also known as Jennifer Tjornehoj) on first- and second-degree murder charges.

Decades earlier, two 11-year-old boys found the newborn wrapped a towel, in a plastic bag, and weighed down by rocks at Horsetooth Reservoir in Larimer County, according to the Fort Collins Coloradoan. Reports at the time stated that the newborn’s umbilical cord was still attached.

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Citing the coroner’s office, local police said Baby Faith’s cause of death was suffocation. Her death was ruled a homicide. Though underweight, the coroner determined that Baby Faith was born alive, according to the news outlet.

Authorities have not revealed Katalinich’s relationship, if any, to the victim. She would have been 18 at the time of Baby Faith’s death.

According to The Denver Post, retired investigator Andy Josey told reporters that the community held a funeral for Baby Faith in September 1996. A funeral home and cemetery provided a headstone and burial site at Roselawn Cemetery for the slain newborn.

Baby Faith has never been claimed. Her murder case was suspended in 1998 after investigators ran out of leads, according to the news outlet.

The case was reopened in August 2006 in hopes that technological advances would provide investigators with more information. Police captain Bob Coleman said detectives resubmitted DNA evidence 10 years later to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for analysis

On July 17, CBI investigators informed Larimer County investigators of five potential matches based on the submitted DNA. Investigators interviewed a Maryland resident, who reportedly gave details that led them to Katalinich. Katalinich spoke with investigators in mid-October.

The Coloradoan reported that the arrest affidavit for Katalinich has been sealed from the public. It’s unclear why investigators zeroed in on her and what led to her being charged with Baby Faith’s murder.

Katalinich, who has no prior criminal history in Colorado, is free on a $25,000 bond.

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