It was found that the woman in Colorado had killed her newborn daughter. DNA tests showed that the baby was her daughter.
After murder charges were officially brought against Angela Onduto, 46, on July 2, she was arrested in Denver. Onduto was charged with the death of a newborn baby in Union City, California, in 2009. Union City police said on Facebook that the baby girl’s body was found in a dumpster behind an apartment building. Police said Onduto was at first a person of interest in the case, but she was never caught, and the case went cold.
Authorities say that DNA linked the baby to Onduto, her real mother, years after she was found.
On May 16, the baby would have been 16 years old. That’s when police found Onduto in Denver and worked with other police in the area. Onduto was arrested but later released while official charges are being made.
While Onduto was being held in Colorado, official murder charges were brought against him by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office on July 2. She is going to be sent back to Alameda County, where she is accused of killing her baby daughter.
When the baby’s body was found on May 18, 2009, the Union City Police Department took her in and named her Matea. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Matea was found in a dumpster by a man who was looking for trash. She still had her umbilical cord connected and was wrapped in bloody pantyhose.
In 2017, the police department built a permanent grave for Matea to celebrate her memory. Every year on her birthday, they also honor her.
The Bay Area News Group got a copy of a probable cause statement that says Onduto admitted to killing the baby soon after she was born. In the statement, Union City Cold Case Detective Dominic Ayala is said to have written, “Angela explained how she killed Matea on purpose after giving birth at home in 2009.” Angela didn’t feel bad about what she did and said she knew while she was pregnant that she didn’t want to keep the baby. She revealed that she had thrown Baby Jane Doe away in the trash. She said that she had no psychiatric disorders or drug use at the time of the event.
The police said they are still looking into Matea’s death. Onduto is still being held in Colorado until he is extradited.
