Morgan Hite Left Something Behind

Update: 3/20/09-Morgan Hite has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and five years of mandatory parole. Hite pleaded guilty in January to a charge of child abuse resulting in death. Prosecutors dropped several other charges including first-degree murder in exchange for that plea.

Wasilla, AK and Grand Junction, CO – More to the point, Morgan Hite left someone. What was left of someone, anyway. Hite, 22, left the corpse of her murdered newborn son in a tote bag at her father and stepmother’s Colorado home after a visit. After she left, she went home to AlaskaAlaska reviews, apparently not thinking that dead babies eventually begin to smell funny. I guess Morgan will have time to rethink that misconception in prison. [Read more...]