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FETAL ABDUCTION CASE
‘GASPING BREATH’ Report: Suspect’s husband saw baby cut from womb breathe By Mitchell Byars • Staff Writer In the upstairs bathroom of his Longmont home, David Ridley held the infant he thought was his premature daughter and watched her take her last “gasping breath,” he told police. His wife had just told him she’d had a miscarriage and that the baby was in the bathtub, according to a police report. He found the baby, turned her over, rubbed her and saw her take a breath, he said. Just downstairs, the real mother lay in a bed,
bleeding and fighting for her life, police said. “She cut me. ... I’m pregnant,” Michelle Wilkins, 26, of Longmont, told a dispatcher when she was able to finally call 911. “Help, help.” Gruesome details emerged Thursday surrounding the stabbing of Wilkins, the pregnant woman whose unborn child was cut from her womb Wednesday, according to police. Officials are calling
it the first apparent fetal abduction in the state of Colorado. Records show that the suspect in the case, Dynel Catrece Lane, 34, of Longmont, claimed it was her own miscarriage when her husband saw the fetus and when she went to the hospital. In an arrest report released Thursday, Lane’s See BREATH, 4A
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• Experts believe Lane may have been experiencing grief, acting under a strong desire to have a baby, Page 4A • Longmont looking for community healing events, Page 5A • Dispatcher who took 911 call remained calm, Page 5A
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Protesters want murder charge Experts warn it isn’t so simple By Alex Burness, John Bear and John Fryar Staff Writers
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Renee Jacoby, of Longmont, holds a sign during a Thursday protest in Longmont against Colorado law that may protect Dynel Lane from being charged with murder. Lane is accused of stabbing a pregnant woman and extracting her baby from her womb. For a video interview with the protesters, go to dailycamera.com.
For Longmont’s Maryann Zegarra, eight months pregnant, the fetal abduction alleged to have happened Wednesday afternoon on Green Place hit particularly close to home. “I feel every movement of my baby. Every hiccup. Every kick,” said Zergarra, 27. “It’s just sad to think that little baby girl was just kicking probably 15 minutes before her mom got to the door.” When Zergarra learned that Dynel Lane — who police say See LEGALITY, 5A
Fatal plane crash in Erie
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brothers Austin and Hunter Wedan, 11; and pilot Oliver Frascona, 67. Weld County District Court in conAviation lawyer Bruce Lampert, nection with the Aug. 31 crash at who is representing the Wedan Erie Municipal Airport. The crash killed all on board — family, blamed the crash on “very See CRASH, 7A Wedan, 41; Mason Wedan, 15; twin
By Amy Bounds Staff Writer
Members allege ‘very bad piloting’ in lawsuit
Relatives of the family killed in a plane crash in Erie last summer sued the estate of their pilot and another pilot Thursday, alleging both were at fault for a near mid-air
collision that forced the aircraft down. The family of Tori Rains-Wedan and her three sons filed four separate wrongful death lawsuits in
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