Lauryn Dickens, 9-Months: Murdered By Mother Who Lied About Whereabouts

She also said that she gave the child up for adoption and that the child's father's parents were caring for the baby.

It took two years for family members of Lauryn Dickens to learn what truly happened to the nine-month-old, who they believed had been kidnapped. Her mother, Shakara Dickens, was a single mother of two children while Lauryn's father, Benjamin Norfleet, was in jail. Dickens complained to Norfleet that she struggled to care for Lauryn while he was behind bars.

According to Dickens, on September 7, 2010, a white woman in her forties, claiming to be a friend of Norfleet's, came by Dickens's Memphis, Tennessee home and stated that she would care for Lauryn until Norfleet was released. Dickens told police that she handed Lauryn over to the woman without getting any contact information from her. She said she didn't even ask the strange woman her name. Dickens also stated she never saw either of them again.