NC COUPLE ARRESTED IN 30-YEAR-OLD CASE OF INFANT REMAINS FOUND DUMPED IN TRASH
NAGS HEAD, N.C. October 26 2021 A couple has been arrested in connection to a case of an infant whose remains were found in the trash 30 years ago in Nags Head.
In the morning of April 4, 1991, members of Nags Head Police were sent to the 8600 block of East Tides Drive regarding a report of human remains found in a trash can rack.
According to a release from police, when officers got to the scene, they found the body of an infant whose gender could not be established due to the body’s advanced state of decomposition.
Over the years, Nags Head Police worked on the unsolved case of “Baby Doe.”
In 2019, officers began a re-investigation and sent the infant’s rib bone to a private lab in Woodlands, Texas called Othram for forensic analysis.
Othram was able to recover human DNA from the bone and used that hereditary material to conduct a genealogical profile which eventually led officials back to a family in North Carolina.
After further investigation, police arrested 54-year-old Scott Gordon Poole and his wife, 51-year-old Robyn Lynn Byrum on Oct. 21.
The couple lived in Taylorsville, North Carolina. They have been charged with concealing the birth of a child, a Class I felony. Officials say additional charges may be pending.
Poole and Byrum were booked at the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office with bonds set at $250,000 for both and have since been transferred to the Dare County Detention Center.
