Authorities: DNA Links Woman To Babies' Remains

LINDA STEWART BALL

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas woman now believed to be the mother of three babies whose remains were found beneath a mobile home porch and nearby has been arrested after DNA tests tied her to the bodies, authorities said.

Rachel Lynnette New, 36, was released on $70,000 bond Friday after her arrest a day earlier, said Tarrant County Sheriff's spokesman Terry Grisham. She was charged with three counts of tampering with evidence. Her attorney, Danny Burns, did not immediately return a call for comment.

Two sets of infant remains were discovered this summer under the porch of a home near Rendon, in rural northern Texas, where New and her brother had been living, while another set was found nearby last year.

Investigators collected DNA samples from 23 people with ties to the property, and authorities said test results showed New was a match to the DNA recovered from the remains.

"She has been pretty much scientifically ruled in as the mother," Grisham said. "They were her children. She had to know what happened to them."