*June 25: A woman discovers a child’s body in a plastic trash bag on Deer Island. *July 2: investigators release a digital rendering of the child’s face, hoping someone would recognize her. *July 29: Officials attend a memorial mass one month after the discovery of Baby Doe’s body. *Aug. 12: Analysis of pollen in her clothing shows the child likely spent time in the Boston area, new evidence she lived nearby. PHOTOS: Who was Baby Doe’s mother Rachelle Bond?
*Sept. 18: Investigators announce they’ve identified the child, now known to be 2 and ½-year-old Bella Bond and say they believe she was murdered. Rachelle Bond, her mother, and Michael McCarthy, her mother’s boyfriend, are arrested. *Sept 21: Bond and McCarthy are scheduled to be arraigned in Dorchester Municipal Court. McCarthy faces charges for murder, Bond for accessory after the fact.
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