I’m Mary Ellen Test Suey, aka baby Rose and this is my true life story. My friend Mary Ellen Cordell Donat, the daughter of the sheriff who investigated this case, and I will take you back to September 1955 on a cold, lonely road near Richmond, Indiana. A sweet baby girl just days old is found near the base of a tree with high weeds in the cold and eerie woods. She had been left there to die.

This book is a memoir, but it’s also a mystery of missing people and reports from the investigation. Not to worry, God closes one door and opens several others. This story has taken many years to unfold. After all, who would want to admit what they had done?

The story shows how God can take such a horrible situation and make it beautiful. You will gasp, question why this baby was treated so cruelly, cry and laugh. You will witness unconditional love by my adoptive parents. New friendships have formed and some had to be let go. Come journey down the road with baby Rose and Mary Ellen as they tell this unbelievable true life story.