Ritchey, now 54, was living an unassuming life as a married mother of three in Ohio was arrested in June 2019, when investigators tied her DNA to the unnamed baby who'd died after being abandoned ...

Gail Ritchey told detectives at the time of her arrest in 2019 that she had disposed the body of another newborn in a field in 1990 or 1991. ... Ohio woman sentenced to life in prison, ...

Two years later, in 1998, Ritchey joined the Capital City Lodge No. 5, the associate lodge of Capital City Lodge No. 9, the FOP lodge for central Ohio police officers.