2 Won’t Be Charged in Missing Baby Case
Federal prosecutors moved to drop charges against a Tampa couple accused of lying about the circumstances of their baby daughter’s disappearance.
The move came less than a week after a U.S. magistrate recommended that the secretly taped conversations that were used to build a case against Marlene and Steven Aisenberg be thrown out because the recordings were nearly unintelligible.
The Aisenbergs were charged in 1999 with misleading detectives about the 1997 disappearance of their daughter, Sabrina. The 5-month-old vanished from the couple’s suburban Tampa home and has never been found.
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