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The child, identified as Kyrah Martin, was discovered face down in the snow early Wednesday morning in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.

DNA leads detectives to John Thomas Jr., 72. He is held in two slayings, but police suspect he may have killed up to 30 elderly Westside and Claremont women a decade apart.

The first wave of slayings haunted Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. The killer slipped mostly unseen through the night, preying on older women who lived alone. He raped them and squeezed their necks until they passed out or died.

The Huffington Post has confirmed reports that "Octo-Mom" Nadya Suleman was visited today by Orange County child services employees and two police detectives.

A detective forced a woman to perform a sex act and then raped her while on duty in his own police station, it has been alleged.