With assistance from the Indiana State Police Crime lab and the dedicated work of detectives, Baby Hope’s biological mother ...

The newborn was found stabbed to death in a trash can at Temple Park in Franklin, Indiana, around 5 p.m. on April 13, 1994.

On April 13, 1994, two boys looking for soda cans to recycle found a baby stabbed to death in a public park's trash. 30 years later, she has a name.

Biological parents of murdered baby girl found in Franklin, Indiana park in 1994 identified 30 years later. DNA technology led to the discovery.

On April 13, 1994, two children rummaging through a trash bin found the remains of the child who had been fatally stabbed, ...

The baby’s mother was Cheryl Dawn Larson, who passed away in 2018. The father, Paul Shepherd, didn’t know she had been ...

Parents of "Baby Hope," a newborn found dead in 1994, were identified as Cheryl D. Larson, now deceased, and Paul R. Shepherd ...

FRANKLIN — A 1994 Franklin cold case that garnered national attention will be the focus of a police update Monday. Franklin ...

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According to WTHR, the Franklin Police Department identified Cheryl Dawn Larson and Paul Richard Shepherd as the biological ...

John Hope Franklin has spent his entire life telling other people's stories. The 90-year-old historian has written and edited 17 books tracing the lives of black Americans from slavery to the ...

Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope FranklinBy John Hope FranklinFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 401 pages, $25For more than six decades, John Hope Franklin has placed his firm and ...