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The Lost Children of Fairfield


In the small town of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1989, seven random couples reported their new-born children missing. The parents claimed that they put their babies to bed and awoke the next morning to an empty crib with no signs of intrusion. The police were baffled by the disappearances, unable to find any witnesses to interview. The news of the disappearances launched the town into turmoil and fear and caused a media sensation promoting a new ad campaign known today as the Fairfield Lost Children Campaign. By the end of the year, with no leads or witnesses, the cases were ruled cold.

The following year, on June 23rd, a nurse working at the Fairfield Veteran’s Hospital called police to examine a tin box she had found taped beneath the bed of one of the rooms. The box contained ten different x-ray films, all of dismembered infants that matched the age category of the missing Fairfield children. Though there was no hard evidence that the films belonged to the missing children, one x-ray in particular showed an infant with dextrocardia, a congenital defect which was present in one of the families’ babies. After closer examination of the films, noticeable anatomical differences were seen within each body, totalling to a body count of ten infants, though three parents did not step forward to report the disappearances. Investigations continued for three more years before being closed as a cold case, yet again.

On April 28th, 2007, an elderly woman named Nadine Kelly called police on multiple occasions to report the sounds of babies crying in the forest behind her home. She claimed that the moment she spoke to the operator, the cries would cease. When police found no evidence of children in the woods, Mrs. Kelly decided to investigate herself. She said that when she heard the cries again, she left her house and followed them into a clearing in the woods where she believed the sounds were the loudest. Terrified, she marked the trees in the area with red spray paint and ran home to call the police. The next morning, the skeletons of ten infants, seven which belonged to the missing Fairfield children, were found buried beneath the soil in the location that Mrs. Kelly had marked. The placement of the bodies led police to believe that the children were used in some sort of ritual killing. The skeletons were buried with the clothing the infants had on the night of their disappearance.

No evidence has been found to determine the persons responsible for the kidnapping and gruesome murder of the ten children. And though the bodies were found, the residents of the town still refer to the victims as the Lost Children of Fairfield.


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