Public Safety & Health

Baby April Sentence

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix

Published February 16, 2022 at 9:00 AM CST

A woman accused of murder for the death of her baby 29 years ago has been sentenced, but won't go back to jail.

Tuesday a judge sentenced 48 year old Angela Siebke to two years in prison for one count of endangering the life of a child resulting in death.

He also gave her credit for time served, and she was released.

Formerly of Orion, Siebke was living in Ohio when she was arrested in 2020. Police had used DNA from the baby, known as Baby April, to identify her as a suspect.

In 1992, the body of a female infant was found in a trash bag in the Mississippi River in downtown Moline. She was named Baby April and buried in Riverside Cemetery.

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Herb Trix

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois. While a graduate student in the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois at Springfield (then known as Sangamon State University), he got his first taste of public radio, covering Illinois state government for WUIS. Here in the Quad Cities, Herb worked for WHBF Radio before coming to WVIK in 1987. Herb also produces the weekly public affairs feature Midwest Week – covering the news behind the news by interviewing reporters about the stories they cover.

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