It was 2017, deep into summer, when a popular high school cheerleader from the nice side of town was charged with killing an infant.
The county sheriff's office arrested 18-year-old Brooke Skylar Richardson, claiming that after hiding her pregnancy, she gave birth, set fire to the baby, and buried it in her backyard. Skylar faced multiple felonies, including aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter, child endangerment, and abuse of a corpse.
As a motive, prosecutor David Fornshell told the story of a teenager obsessed with projecting the perfect image. Skylar and her mom, as he painted them in a press conference, were consumed with "how things appeared to the outside world." And he dropped this detail to reporters: Skylar had burned the baby, perhaps even while the newborn was still alive. Fornshell had little to go on—no medical proof—but the idea rocketed around Skylar's conservative community anyway.
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