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A woman has been arrested for murder after DNA testing connected her to a baby that was found dead in the Iowa City landfill in 1992.

Cindy Sue Elder, 58, the mother of the unnamed child, is charged with first-degree murder. She was arrested in Missouri and is awaiting extradition to Johnson County.

The baby, referred to in police documents as Baby John Doe, was found on Dec. 21, 1992. He had been unknowingly picked up by a trash collector from trash receptacles near at apartment building at 712 Fifth St., Coralville. He was a full-term newborn and had extensive blunt force injuries that appeared to be postmortem. The placenta was still attached and was wrapped around his neck, according to a

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