Police Searching Mid- and Lower-Michigan for Dead Baby's Mom

The body of a dead nude newborn abandoned in a Roseville recycling bin is not the son of the 25-year-old Okemos woman who told authorities last week she “can’t recall’ the whereabouts of a boy she gave birth to last month.

After Melissa Mitin, 25, of Okemos, who is facing murder charges in the death of a newborn daughter in December 2013, made the revelation that she’d had another child who is missing, authorities tested the body newborn found in a recycling bin for a possible link, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Those tests came back negative, and now Roseville detectives are moving their search to mid-Michigan after determining that the the Dumpster where the baby was found Wednesday included materials from the Roscommon, Midland and Arenac county areas, the Free Press said. The Dumpster could have come from any of 34 locations in mid- and lower-Michigan.

Roseville Police Chief James Berlin said Monday that investigators pored through “any scrap of paper” that could shed light on the baby’s mother. Surveillance tape from any cameras that may have been operating near the Dumpsters will be reviewed.

Berlin called the case his department’s “No. 1 priority.”

The nude baby, a full-term white male, was found in a torn black T-shirt by workers at a recycling center on Groesbeck last Wednesday.

Final autopsy reports haven’t been released, but Berlin said “it does appear the baby breathed a little after birth,” Berlin said.

The baby was born sometime between Christmas Day and Jan. 12, authorities said.

If you have information about the case, call Roseville Police at (586) 447-4483.

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