Missing woman found with foetus stolen

A missing pregnant woman was found dead in an Oklahoma field with her abdomen cut open and the foetus removed.

A hunter found the body of Carolyn Simpson, 21, in a field near Lamar, 100 miles from Oklahoma City.

She had been shot in the head, said Tommy Graham, a State Bureau of Investigation inspector.

Police arrested a 37-year-old woman who took a dead foetus to a hospital.

Simpson was six months pregnant when she was last seen on December 22 at a casino where she worked.

A day after her disappearance, Effie Goodson took a dead foetus that had reached six months’ gestation to a hospital about 30 miles away, saying she was the mother, police said.

Doctors determined Goodson could not have given birth to the foetus and she was arrested.

Officials have not yet determined whether the foetus taken to the hospital was Simpson’s, said Graham.