David Lomas Investigates S02E02 ¦ֿ The Baby That Was Found Wrapped In Newspaper

David Lomas cracks high-profile cold case of Wellington's 'newspaper baby', 57 years on 04/05/2021 Matt Burrows Watch: Julie Corlett speaks about her abandonment by her mother 57 years ago. Credit: Three A decades-old mystery about how a newborn baby came to be abandoned outside a house in central Wellington on New Year's Eve has been solved. Wairarapa grandmother Julie Corlett, now 58, was just hours old when she was left on the path of a home in Newtown on December 31, 1962 with her umbilical cord still attached. Naked but for the newspapers wrapped around her body, she was discovered by two young sisters who thought the crying they heard was puppies. Corlett was rushed to Wellington Hospital, where specialists determined she was healthy Taylor had been married three times, had at least eight children, and was at one point wed to bigamist Francis Murison - a crime that saw him jailed for nine months. While Taylor and the man she was married to at the time of Corlett's birth have now passed away, Lomas was able to identify who they were through DNA analysis, birth records and marriage certificates. Julie Corlett meets her half-sister, Sue. Photo credit: Three "I now have a beginning, I'm living the middle, and the end will come whenever the end comes," she told the programme. "This whole journey, I didn't think it would turn out the way it has. "To find out I've got eight brothers and sisters - that's a big family - they're my blood. I've added them on Facebook and one day I hope to get to meet the rest of them." Watch the whole David Lomas Investigates episode on ThreeNow.