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Brno John Doe was an infant whose body was found in a red plastic bag in the Nový Lískovec district of Brno in the Czech Republic. Although the police investigated the case as suspicious, no exact cause of death was ever determined.
Case[]
On 7 June 2009, two people were walking through a former gardening colony in Brno's Nový Lískovec district in the Czech Republic. They soon found a red plastic bag which contained the dead body of an infant, prompting the immediate involvement of the police.
The area where the infant was found was easily accessible from a nearby trolleybus line. The bag and body itself was forced into an old concrete pit which belonged to a torn-down garden cabin. The infant itself was in an advanced state of decomposition and the police summoned a doctor to the scene. Their gender could not be determined at first and the doctor stated that the infant was several weeks or months old based on tissue losses, and that the infant was full-term and capable of surviving after birth. DNA samples were extracted, which revealed that the infant was male but an exact cause of death could never be determined. In addition to the decedent, the bag also contained a soiled towel and other unspecified items. It was due to these items that the police believe the decedent's mother had given birth inside a home.
Gardeners were interviewed and they explained that they had driven to the gardens from another state and therefore did not walk by the location of discover. The area was, however, used by homeless people to sleep in during the summer and witnesses called in a tip explaining that one of the municipal houses was where poor and low social classed single mothers lived, prompting the police to search the building, but no leads were uncovered.