One day after the discovery of an abandoned dead baby during his tenure as Riverhead Town police chief, Joe Grattan called the Suffolk County medical examiner. Grattan, a licensed funeral director since before he became an officer, wanted to be certain the child would not be discarded a second time. "I said, 'Do not release the body unless she’s released to me,'" Grattan, now 85 and long retired, recalled of the September 1993 discovery. The official burial record states the girl, found in a green garbage bag under a guardrail along Middle Country Road in Calverton, lived for two days. Her name is listed as Baby Jane Doe. Those scant details were among the few things known about the child before the Suffolk County Cold Case Task Force took up the case last April. Nine months later, investigators had her alleged birth mother in custody. Read the full story in the link in bio. (Photo credit: Kendall Rodriguez and James Carbone) . . . #longisland #truecrime #police #case #coldcase #i...