Cadaver dogs were brought in to check if Cora had been killed before she had disappeared. Why wasn’t he actually trying to find the Cora?Ī forensics team scoured the house and the garage in back to no avail. Even in that condition, it seemed as though the detective’s questions were directed toward what they might have done to or with the baby.

There was no hiding the fact that they had been drinking. While Ann and Marco were initially fearful of what people would think about them leaving their infant home alone, soon the dread of what might have hap pened to her took control. Detective Rasbach arrived with a full complement of policemen a late-night search of the neighborhood was undertaken while Detective Rasbach questioned the parents. Even so, they searched the house before calling the police. Disbelief: a 3-month baby cannot be out of her crib. The crib was empty! She screamed and Marco came running. The first thing Ann did was to rush up to Cora’s room to check on her.

By now, all concerned had drunk quite a lot. Marco didn’t seem quite so sure and left Cynthia Stillwell’s attention only reluctantly to go home with his wife. Using a baby monitor, they kept regular tabs on the sleeping Cora and took turns checking on her each half hour. On this night, though, Ann had given in and agreed with her husband, Marco, to spend the evening next door to celebrate Graham Stillwell’s birthday. Since then, Ann Conti had devoted most of her time to the baby. They had gotten together regularly with the Stillwells before Cora had been born.

The Contis lived in a condo that abutted the Stillwells’.

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