‘I just got rid of it:’ Colorado mom accused of tossing dead newborn onto neighbor’s deck

CASTLE ROCK, Colorado — A Colorado judge denied bond for a woman accused of tossing her newborn onto a neighbor’s deck where it was found dead in January.

Camille Wasinger-Konrad, 23, is accused of giving birth on Jan. 2. The baby was found dead around 15 hours later on a neighbor’s back deck.

Wasinger-Konrad is charged with first degree murder-victim under 12/position of trust and first degree murder-after deliberation tampering with evidence.

Court records have been sealed in her case but FOX31 learned a number of new details at the defendant’s preliminary hearing Tuesday, including that Wasinger-Konrad claimed to not know she was pregnant until the morning she gave birth.

Douglas County Sheriff deputies responded to a neighborhood around 9:45 p.m. on Jan. 2 after a woman named Jeanette Barich reported finding a dead infant on her back deck.

Barich told detectives she went onto her back deck to use her hot tub when she noticed her dog smelling what appeared to be a dead baby. She immediately brought the infant inside her home and called 911.

Detectives soon found a bloody shower curtain in the next door neighbor’s trash can. Wasinger-Konrad had been renting a room from the family for about four months.

Wasinger-Konrad’s landlord told detectives she had cleaned an immense amount of blood that morning from the upstairs bathroom that Wasinger-Konrad used but had no idea Wasinger-Konrad was pregnant.

Douglas County Detective Adam Moorman found Wasinger-Konrad sitting on her bed upstairs and she agreed to talk with him but claimed to have no idea what he might be investigating.

After he asked Wasinger-Konrad if her DNA might match the dead baby he found next-door she responded, “Well the thing is I don’t want to get in trouble” but eventually explained she woke up that morning between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. to bad stomach cramps and “the baby just came out.”

In an interview recorded on a deputy’s body camera, Wasinger-Konrad told detectives “I just got rid of it,” referring to the baby.

She explained that she put her hand over the baby’s mouth so that her landlord’s family, who were all asleep, wouldn’t hear the newborn crying. She then claimed to carry the baby outside in a blanket and sat on the deck for about ten minutes still covering the baby’s mouth.

Then she admitted walking to the backyard fence and with an underhand motion, tossed the newborn over a nine foot fence.

Detective Moorman testified blood evidence indicates the infant bounced off a railing and the back of a deck chair before landing onto Barich’s deck, where her dog found the newborn.

Moorman testified that he later interviewed a co-worker of Wasinger-Konrad’s named Denise Craven who said Wasinger-Konrad requested a new schedule in recent months to work a job where she wouldn’t have to lift items because she claimed to be pregnant.

Wasinger-Konrad’s public defender pointed out that Moorman never interviewed supervisors at King Soopers to confirm if Wasinger-Konrad had mentioned being pregnant and needing a new schedule.

It was also revealed that Wasinger-Konrad’s family and boyfriend refused to talk to detectives, so it’s not clear if they knew she was pregnant.

At the end of the preliminary hearing, the judge granted a motion from prosecutors to immediately swab Wasinger-Konrad for DNA. She will back in court for her arraignment on May 22.