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Ever since she was a little girl, Connie Moultroup has had the same Christmas wish every year: to meet her biological mother. This week, after 69 long years, she finally made it come true, all thanks to a DNA ancestry kit.
Genevieve Purinton, now 88, gave birth to Moultroup in 1949 at a hospital in Indiana. When she asked the staff if she could see her baby, she was informed that the baby had not survived.
“Because she was a single mother, she was told I had died. She went on with her life not knowing I was still alive,” Moultroup told CNN. It wasn’t an uncommon practice at the time, as author Ann Fessler documented in the book “The Girls Who Gone.”
Moultroup was taken to an orphanage and later adopted by a couple in Santa Barbara, California. But her adoptive parents died a few years later, when she was only 5 years old.
“I would do it again. I hate them,” Bailey reportedly told officers.
The suspect was arrested Wednesday morning after hours of searching. The operation began several hours after the victims’ bodies were found in their Washington City home.
Court documents add that Bailey, who is transgender, openly described the hatred directed at her brother.
Allegedly, the alleged gunwoman shot at her brother through a locked door, but he was able to escape and call 911 from a neighbor’s residence.
At the time of the incident, the brother was locked inside the house with his wife, who also escaped unharmed. The couple lived in the house.
Joseph Bailey, 70, and Gail Bailey, 69, were found dead in the living room of the house next to multiple bullet casings.
