Nearly two decades after the gruesome murders of two newborn boys, authorities identified their biological mother and charged her in connection to the cold case.
41-year-old Antoinette Briley was linked to the 2003 double murder of twin newborns found in the garbage.
A worker in Stuckey Township was collecting trash when she came upon the boys’ lifeless bodies.
The infants died from asphyxiation and were born alive, and an autopsy revealed at the time.
The case went cold until DNA and genetic genealogy tracked down the babies’ mother.
“As part of the investigation, Sheriff’s Police detectives traveled to Holland and obtained a discarded item containing Briley’s DNA, which was matched to the DNA from the victims,” Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said.
Briley was busted in Oak Lawn, Illinois last Thursday during a traffic stop.
