Ashleigh Wade liked to refer to herself on Facebook as her boyfriend’s “pregnant girlfriend”. The couple posted sonogram images, boasting of their forthcoming baby girl, and had set up a registry for friends to buy them baby gifts.

Wade, 22, had recently reconnected with a childhood friend in New York, Angelikque Sutton. Sutton was pregnant, too, and expecting a girl imminently, around the same time as Wade was understood to be due.

But last month, Sutton, also 22, who was about to marry her long-term boyfriend and the father of their unborn child, died a bloody death in her Bronx apartment, stabbed and cut open, with the baby ripped from her abdomen. Police found the placenta and a knife on the floor inside the apartment and Wade outside, screaming that the baby was hers.

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