Overview
- An employee performing routine maintenance found the body of a newborn inside a portable toilet on the Electric Forest festival campgrounds on June 28.
- Michigan State Police released preliminary autopsy results saying the infant was viable and was born alive, shifting focus to finding who left the child.
- The FBI Detroit Field Office is assisting the state police and has posted a reward of up to $15,000 for information that leads to identification, arrest, and conviction.
- No arrests have been made and officials have not identified the infant’s parent or parents; investigators interviewed a Muskegon attendee who was later eliminated as a suspect.
- Police are reviewing festival video, using forensic testing, and appealing for tips from the tens of thousands who attended because the large, transient crowd complicates witness ID and evidence gathering.