David paul

Meriden police held a memorial service Tuesday for Baby David Paul, an infant found dead after being abandoned in a parking lot in January 1988. The ceremony at Walnut Grove Cemetery was held to mark the 33rd year since the tragedy, and the first time police held the vigil since solving the mystery of who abandoned him. While working to…

Meriden police joined forces with an organization to use DNA to help find the mother of a baby who died after being abandoned in 1988.

Thirty-two years have passed since an infant boy who was abandoned in a parking lot in Meriden died from exposure and police will be holding a news conference Tuesday on the status of the investigation.

DNA has helped Meriden police solve a 32-year-old mystery and led them to the mother of a newborn baby boy who was found at the base of a tree on Jan. 2, 1988 after dying from exposure. Police located the woman earlier this month and said she admitted to being the baby’s mother and told police that she’d been waiting…