Woman ripped baby from mother's womb while she was still alive before 'cruel and vicious' murder
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A woman who ripped the baby from her neighbour's womb while she was still alive has been jailed for life.
Savanna Greywind, 22, was eight months pregnant when she went missing from her home.
Her parents and frantic boyfriend Ashton Matheny raised the alarm sparking a major police search.
Then a neighbour reported hearing a baby's cries coming from the home of 38-year-old Brooke Crews.
When officers arrived they found a newborn they suspected to be Savanna's child.
Crews initially claimed the child was her own.
Days later, the tragic victim's body was found wrapped in plastic and floating down a river in Fargo, North Dakota.
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Crews eventually pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping, conspiracy to commit murder and lying to law officers.
She confessed to luring Savanna to her apartment and attacking her.
The baby, a girl named Haisley Jo by her father, was cut from her mother's womb while she slipped in and out of consciousness.
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Prosecutors have not disclosed Savanna's exact cause of death but police Chief Dave Todd called the killing a "cruel and vicious act of depravity."
Crews was jailed for life on Friday.
Before her sentencing she told a judge: "There is no excuse. There is no rationalization. There is nothing."
Her boyfriend William Hoehn, 32, is also charged over the murder and will face trial at a later date.
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He has told police he came home on August 19 last year to find Crews cleaning up blood in their bathroom.
He said Crews presented him with an infant girl and said: "This is our baby. This is our family."
Hoehn has confessed he took rubbish bags containing bloody shoes and towels and disposed of them.