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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 29 augusT 2017

Charges accuse pair of seeking to steal woman’s baby

By DAVE KOLPACK said.
Associated Press But Hoehn told police a dif-
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A ferent story, according to
suspect in the death of a the documents. He said he
pregnant woman initially came home Aug. 19 to find
claimed the woman gave Crews cleaning up blood
up her newborn daugh- in their bathroom. Hoehn
ter but later admitted tak- says Crews presented him
ing advantage of her to with an infant baby girl and
get the child, according said: “This is our baby. This is
to court documents filed our family.”
Monday that shed no light Hoehn told police he took
on how the woman died. garbage bags contain-
Brooke Crews, 38, and her ing bloody shoes and his
boyfriend William Hoehn bloody towels and dis-
(HAYN), 32, were each posed of them away from
charged with conspiracy the apartment complex,
to commit murder in the according to the docu-
death of 22-year-old Sa- ments.
vanna Greywind. But the Crews and Hoehn are also
brief charging summary charged with conspiracy
does not reveal how police to commit kidnapping and William Hoehn appears via a video monitor Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in East Central District Court
and prosecutors believe giving false information to in Fargo, N.D., for an appearance in connection with the disappearance and death of a pregnant
Greywind died.Greywind, police. They didn’t enter women in North Dakota. Hoehn is one of two people charged with conspiracy to commit murder
who was eight months pleas during a court hear- and other counts in the death of Savanna Greywind, whose body was found Sunday, Aug. 27, in
pregnant when she disap- ing Monday. Bond was set the Red River near Fargo. Greywind was last seen at her apartment Aug. 19.
peared Aug. 19, was the at $2 million for each of the (Michael Vosburg/The Forum via AP, Pool)
subject of several large suspects. regular person.” ly respond to requests for er, a member of the Turtle
searches before her body Neither showed much emo- Their court-appointed at- comment. Mountain Band of Chippe-
was spotted by kayakers tion, although Hoehn ob- torneys, Stormy Vickers for Family members declined wa, said she struggled with
Sunday night in the Red jected to the bail amount Hoehn and Monty Mertz for to comment outside the her emotions during the
River near Fargo, wrapped as “unattainable for any Crews, did not immediate- courtroom. Amanda Vivi- hearing. q
in plastic and duct tape.
“Savanna was a victim of
a cruel and vicious act of Prosecutor:
depravity,” Fargo police
Chief David Todd said. Toddler in car seat died while mom high in car
The complaint offers con-
flicting stories from the two ALLOWAY, N.J. (AP) — A County Prosecutor John Le- message left Monday night Joseph on drugs in a park-
suspects. Crews told po- New Jersey mom was high nahan said. It appears the for her attorney, Joseph ing lot.
lice she arranged to have on drugs in her car and left child injured herself in the Neal, was not immediately The newspaper reported
Greywind come to her her 2-year-old daughter car seat, he said. returned. the children were tem-
apartment on Aug. 19 and unattended for hours in a The medical examiner’s of- Court records show it is Jo- porarily taken into state
told her how to induce la- car seat, where she fatally fice will determine the ex- seph’s third arrest in nine custody. Joseph was con-
bor. Greywind came back injured herself, prosecutors act cause of death. years on charges related victed of cruelty and child
two days later to give her said. Joseph was charged with to neglect of a child. neglect and sentenced to
the newborn baby, Crews Deanna Joseph called 911 second-degree child en- She was arrested in 2008 five years of probation.
said. on Saturday night to report dangerment. She did not after her 11-year-old and Records show the woman
“Crews admitted she had her child was unresponsive, enter a plea Monday dur- 2-year-old were found was arrested again after
taken advantage of Sa- NJ.com reported. ing her initial court ap- alone at home, accord- being found unresponsive
vanna Greywind in an at- The child was found dead pearance, where a judge ing to a Burlington County at an apartment in 2014.
tempt to obtain her child in a car parked in the drive- ordered that she remain in Times report. Her infant son was found
and possibly keep the child way of Joseph’s home with custody until a detention The two children were dis- bathing in inches of water
as her own,” the complaint the engine running, Salem hearing is held Thursday. A covered after police found nearby.q