What Happened to Baby Doe?

After overcoming a rough start, 'Baby Doe' builds a future for herself and proves with support and determination, anything is possible.

A tip leads to an arrest almost 15 years after "Baby Doe" was abandoned. The woman who found the child meets "Baby Doe" as a teenager during an emotional reunion.

Baby Doe’s’ biological mother describes being sexually abused by her mom’s ex-boyfriend. She shares her account of what happened November 12, 1999. ‘Baby Doe’ – Angel Thomas – experiences an emotional breakdown when she learns the circumstances behind why she was abandoned.

As police searched for the person or people who abandoned a baby under a Greensboro, NC apartment stairwell, the strangers who appeared to have done a good deed found themselves answering to suspicion. Meanwhile, ‘Baby Doe’ needed a place to call home. Social services didn’t have to look far to find the right family.

A woman was on her way to work when strange noises got her attention. She took a closer look and yelled for her sons to call 911. The shocking discovery would be the beginning of strangers being connected through one common goal – saving a baby’s life. In this episode, we learn the obstacles this baby would have to overcome to survive through the eyes of the people who did their best to give her a fighting chance.

November 12, 1999 – A baby is found underneath a stairwell at a Greensboro, NC apartment complex. The shocking crime stumped police as they had no leads on who abandoned the baby. More than a decade later, the hidden details would start to unravel. A separate crime would be the missing link investigators needed. But this isn’t your typical crime story, another ‘who done it.’ This is also a story about hope and the divine connection between multiple people as their lives crossed at a specific moment in time. In this series, WGHP's Natalie Wilson brings us the final piece of a 20-year mystery as we finally learn what happened to “Baby Doe.”