Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
There was talk not too long ago about exhuming a lot of these babies who
had been dx'd as dying from SID's to recheck and see if they had really
died as a result of child abuse. I just wonder if we will be seeing a
few more of these murder charges being filed, many years later.
Sue
Man Charged 31 Years After Death
> LYNDEN, Wash. (AP) -- Thirty-one years ago, William
> Morley Dorsay took a walk in a Vancouver, British
> Columbia, park with his month-old son in a stroller.
> When he returned home, the baby, covered head to toe in
> blankets, was dead.
>
> Doctors attributed the death to sudden infant death
> syndrome. But incriminating comments Dorsay allegedly
> made to a state trooper three years ago prompted
> Canadian police to reopen the case. They concluded the
> infant was suffocated.
>
> Now Dorsay will return to Canada to face murder charges
> in the death of his son, David.
>
> In a hearing Wednesday in federal court in Seattle,
> Dorsay, a 51-year-old car salesman, waived extradition
> and agreed to return to Vancouver.
>
> Dorsay's marriage broke up soon after the baby's death,
> and he eventually moved to the U.S. side of the border.
> In 1995, a trooper in the Seattle area was filling his
> gas tank one night when Dorsay approached and confessed
> to killing the baby, said Vancouver Detective Al
> Cattley.
>
> The trooper took Dorsay to a police station, but Dorsay
> wouldn't say anything more.
>
> Police passed the information on to Canadian officials,
> and the baby's remains were exhumed and examined by a
> pathologist.
>
> Dorsay remarried 20 years ago, and the couple have four
> children, ages 2 to 20. The family has an unlisted
> number and couldn't be reached.
>
> Cattley said Dorsay's ex-wife, who lives in her native
> England, ``had her suspicions because of his actions
> around the child, and it's never been a thing she's
> accepted.''
>
> ``I think he was just in a relationship that he didn't
> like,'' the detective said.
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