In the end, it wasn’t a fingerprint or a blood spatter that led authorities to the woman suspected of strangling a mother-to-be and cutting the baby from her womb.

A woman charged with killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb was showing the child off to people at a café and to her pastor hours before she was arrested, residents said.

A woman who reported her brother missing in the World Trade Center attack last year is under investigation after authorities discovered that he did not exist, the FBI has said.