Earlier Baby's Death, Burial Under Scrutiny ; Infant in Closet Results in Mom's Charge.

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BOONVILLE - Police have closed the criminal investigation of the mother whose baby was found inside a closet, but law enforcement officers in a rural Mississippi county are actively searching for the body of an infant the woman is alleged to have buried there.

Latonya Nichols, 32, is charged in Cooper County Circuit Court with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child. She remains in the Cooper County Detention Center, with bond set at $4,750.

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Earlier Baby's Death, Burial Under Scrutiny ; Infant in Closet Results in Mom's Charge.

Nichols, a former resident of Tippah County, Miss., was arrested Saturday by Boonville police after her 13-year-old daughter called 911 reporting she had found the infant in a cl...

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