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...romance began in the couple's junior year in high school, and they went to both the junior and senior proms together. At the latter, Grossberg must already have been several weeks pregnant. They still seemed to be in love after heading off to different colleges, and perhaps their secret isolated them and drew them even closer. They didn't tell their parents or friends about the pregnancy or seek any counseling. Grossberg wore baggy clothes to hide her condition, although her college roommates reportedly suspected it. But they didn't feel they could discuss it with...
After the baby arrived, the couple slept for a few hours, then returned to their colleges. At 5:30 that afternoon, though, Grossberg fainted in her dorm room. She was taken to a hospital, where doctors discovered that she had given birth within the past 12 hours and notified police that a baby might be missing. Grossberg's roommate told the police about Peterson, and they called Gettysburg College. There, a dormitory adviser and a campus security officer approached Peterson, who told them where the baby was. The police found bloody bed linens in each of the couple's dorm...
Over the next few days, police questioned Grossberg and Peterson, then released them to the custody of their parents. But after the autopsy was completed on Saturday, Delaware's attorney general announced that the couple were being charged with first-degree murder and that the state would seek the death penalty (murdering a child under 14 is a capital offense in Delaware). Grossberg surrendered and was held without bail and ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation...
...their newborns. But how could two secure, educated 18-year-olds convince themselves that this was the best of all alternatives? And if indeed they did crack the baby's skull, what possessed them to do so? To understand all is to forgive all, the old saying goes. Understanding Grossberg and Peterson seems a long...
About the time most prospective parents are obsessing over what color to paint the nursery, Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. were acquiring a gray garbage bag with yellow drawstrings and a map of Newark, Delaware, to help them find a Comfort Inn off the highway, where birth and death could come and go in a moment. Was there ever a second when one of them was shocked by the horror of it all and said, "No, we can't do this. Have we lost our minds?" only to be talked back into it by the other? Did they hear...