That night, the mother told the officer, the baby was throwing up and she had thought he was sick, but the next morning he was not keeping any food down and had a “dazed look.” She thought this might have been because of the baby had been outside while it was exceptionally hot, but on June 11 realized that the baby had been in air conditioning and was not getting any better so she took him to a doctor.

On June 13 detectives were told by UW Hospital staff that the infant’s injuries did not match with what Riddle had said happened.

The baby had suffered from chronic fluid in the brain, which would be more than a month old, blood in another section of the brain, thought to be between two and seven days old, and hemorrhaging around the right eye, which could not be dated. A physician’s assistant, according to court documents, described the last injury as the kind that is resulting from “rotational injury” such as shaking.

Detectives, with the attending doctor, described the injuries as “definite abusive head trauma.”