Courtney Minor is an alleged killer from Texas who is charged with murder after authorities discovered an infants body inside of a dumpster
According to police reports the Crimes Against Children Unit was investigating after an infant’s body was found inside of a suitcase and put inside a dumpster in Fort Worth Texas outside of the La Hacienda Apartments on July 20 2025
Now police have announced that Courtney Minor has been arrested and charged with abuse of a corpse without legal authority and capital murder of a person under the age of 10.
Apparently when speaking to police Courtney Minor allegedly told them that she gave birth to the child, placed it in a suitcase and then wheeled it over to a dumpster. Police are trying to determine whether the infant was still alive when placed into the suitcase
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Fort Worth police have made an arrest after a woman confessed to putting an infant in a suitcase and leaving it in a dumpster in Fort Worth over a year ago.
In mid-July 2024, a baby was found dead in a dumpster at La Hacienda Apartments on the 4700 block of Norma Street. In November of that year, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner said the newborn boy was never identified.
Monday, Fort Worth police said the infant was placed in a suitcase, the suitcase was placed in the dumpster and the suspect was seen rolling the suitcase to the dumpster.
The Crimes Against Children Unit said Monday that the suspect ultimately confessed to the baby being alive at birth, and that she did put the suitcase, with the baby inside, in the dumpster.
According to Fort Worth PD, Courtney Minor is charged with abuse of a corpse and capital murder of a person under 10 years old.
There are resources in Texas where anyone can drop off a child safely under the Baby Moses Law: a fire department, hospital, or freestanding emergency room.
According to Safe Haven guidelines posted by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, the child must be younger than 60 days old and unharmed.
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A Fort Worth woman is facing a capital murder charge after police say she put a baby in a suitcase and left it in a dumpster.
Fort Worth Police confirmed only a few details about the ongoing investigation, but said on July 20 that the department’s Crimes Against Children Unit was investigating the death of an infant who was found in a dumpster at the La Hacienda Apartments at 4720 Norma Street and that no arrest had been made.
On Monday, Fort Worth Police said they’d arrested a suspect, identified in jail records as 36-year-old Courtney Minor. Officials charged Minor with abuse of a corpse without legal authority and capital murder of a person under the age of 10.
Fort Worth Police said the child was placed in a suitcase and the suitcase was placed in a dumpster. Police said the suspect was seen rolling the suitcase to the dumpster and that she “ultimately confessed to the baby being alive at birth and that she did put the suitcase, with the baby inside, in the dumpster.”
It’s not immediately clear if the baby was alive when it was put in the suitcase, and the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office has not yet released the infant’s cause of death.
Fort Worth Police shared no other details in the ongoing investigation.
The suspect’s relationship to the child has not been confirmed.
