Dix J
Department of Pathology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 65212, USA.
Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 1998 Dec;19(4):321-3. doi: 10.1097/00000433-199812000-00005.
Two babies were smothered by their baby-sitter. The deaths happened 4 years apart. The baby-sitter was convicted based on a confession, not on the findings at autopsy. These cases illustrate the difficulty in distinguishing SIDS from suffocation homicide.