Harrison made a brief court appearance Friday alongside attorney Gene Zingaro, who Judge Seán P. McGuinness said still needed to receive discovery from the state and review it before the case proceeds.

Assistant State's Attorney Mary-Caitlin Harding told McGuinness the state plans to file a motion for nontestimonial evidence — a request asking a judge to order a defendant to provide physical evidence as part of a criminal investigation — before Harrison’s next court date.

Harding said during Harrison’s June 23 arraignment that an ongoing investigation could result in “very serious” additional charges against her. While the nature of the investigation has not been disclosed, search warrant affidavits indicate a focus on another baby Harrison told police she gave birth to in 2019.

Harrison, who remains held in lieu of a $2.5 million bond, is not expected to appear for the Sept. 17 hearing after Zingaro requested that her appearance be waived.

The investigation that led to Harrison’s June 18 arrest went years without any viable leads, according to court documents.

That changed in October 2023, when police received information indicating a baby found at the Stamford recycling center in 2018 may have been a descendant of a family in the Danbury-Bethel area, according to Harrison’s arrest warrant. 

The warrant says detectives spent the next two years using genealogy research, DNA comparisons and forensic testing to narrow the family tree before eventually identifying the baby’s father. Further investigation led detectives to identify Harrison as the child’s mother, according to the warrant.

After initially denying ever having a child, court documents say Harrison eventually admitted giving birth in October 2018 and claimed to have hidden the pregnancy from her family and the child’s father. 

Harrison told police she delivered the baby alone in a bathroom at her Prince Street home, said it cried and that she cut the umbilical cord, wrapped the newborn in a blanket and handed him to “a friend” to take to Danbury Hospital, according to her arrest warrant.

The friend, however, told investigators he transported a crying newborn to the hospital in 2021 — not 2018 — and police determined Harrison had given birth to another son in April 2021. Detectives obtained records showing that child was surrendered to Danbury Hospital under Connecticut’s Safe Haven law and later adopted. Court documents identify the friend as the father of the 2021 child.

Harrison claimed to have confused details from her pregnancies and proceeded to repeatedly change her story about the son she reportedly delivered on Oct. 12, 2018 — first claiming he was stillborn, then saying he cried after birth but that she later found him submerged in bathwater, according to police.

She later told detectives she left the newborn in a wooded area near Backus Avenue before later putting him in a dumpster behind a building in that area. Harrison initially said the baby was dead when she later returned for him, but then acknowledged he was moving when she put him in the dumpster, her arrest warrant says.

Investigators concluded Harrison knew the newborn was alive when she placed him in the dumpster and believed she had made a “deliberate effort to mislead detectives in their homicide investigation” by providing different, inconsistent accounts of her pregnancies, according to court documents.

Harrison’s 2018 baby had “injuries to his head … consistent with massive crushing death,” according to a search warrant affidavit, which says he was “killed … when he and the contents of the dumpster were loaded into a recycling truck’s hopper, then compacted with the recycling truck’s compacting blade.” 

Harrison told police “knew that she was pregnant around September 2019 based on an examination at Planned Parenthood” and claimed to have dropped the baby off at Danbury Hospital after delivering him in a bathroom at her home one night in November 2019, according to an affidavit.

While investigators confirmed she visited Planned Parenthood in September 2019 and had been “considering adoption,” the affidavit says they found no record of the baby being brought to Danbury Hospital.

Confronted with that discrepancy, the affidavit says Harrison changed her story and claimed to have wrapped the newborn in “a white ‘Snoopy’ blanket” and placed him in a wooded area behind her home after his birth.

Harrison told the detective the baby was alive when she left him but was dead when she returned to the wooded area the next morning, according to the affidavit.

After replacing the blanket she originally wrapped him in with a different “Snoopy” blanket, Harrison said she put the deceased newborn’s body in a green recycling dumpster near the front of her residence. 

Harrison told the detective she kept the blanket she originally wrapped the baby in inside a purple medium-sized plastic bin in the basement of her home. Court documents show investigators executed a search warrant for the blanket on June 18, 2026.

An affidavit associated with the warrant says Harrison claimed to have washed the blanket but told the detective there might still be a small amount of blood on it. Court documents say the blanket seized from Harrison’s home was sent to the Department of Public Safety Forensic Science Laboratory in Meriden for DNA testing and other forensic analysis.

Court documents say investigators determined the same man who fathered Harrison’s first baby also likely fathered the child she gave birth to in 2019.

July 24, 2026|Updated July 24, 2026 2:08 p.m.