On the morning of Sunday, June 28, a worker at Michigan‘s Electric Forest musical festival discovered the body of a newborn baby inside a porta-potty. CBS News confirmed the discovery was made in the camping area of the annual festival, with Michigan State Police confirming that “the body was discovered by an employee of the restroom vending company during routine maintenance.” The Electric Forest festival is hosted at Double JJ Ranch and has a focus on EDM, with many top DJs performing to what’s generally an upbeat crowd in the mood to spend a weekend partying in nature. No further details have been confirmed, save for a confirmation that there is no further threat to the public. An investigation is now underway to discover what happened, who’s responsible, and if there are criminal charges to answer. The State Police have asked that anyone who was at the festival and saw or heard anything unusual, or who has knowledge of the circumstances behind this sad discovery, leave them a note on their “suspicious activity report” page. How will they find the mother? Typical investigative procedure in a case like this is to first conduct an autopsy to determine if the infant was born alive or a stillbirth, together with trying to establish the cause of death. But the primary investigative route in cases like this is DNA matching. Investigators compare an infant’s DNA profile to existing criminal databases, or use investigative genetic genealogy (using consumer DNA databases) to try to build a family tree. This is proving extremely effective in these so-called “Baby Doe” cases, with the NY Times reporting that cold cases involving “deceased newborns being found abandoned” are being reopened and that “women may now face lengthy prison sentences for decades-old chapters of their pasts.” The case has parallels with the 1997 death of “Baby Garnet”, a Michigan baby who was discovered in a campground pit toilet at the Garnet Lake Campground in the Upper Peninsula’s Hudson Township. An autopsy determined the child to be a “term or near-term infant”, but with no leads, the case went cold. Twenty years later, DNA testing matched the baby to a woman named Nancy Gerwatowski, who currently faces one count of open murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter. A trial date has not been set, and Gerwatowski remains released on bond with a GPS tether. The Electric Festival investigation is ongoing.