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Rachel Lynnette New, the woman identified through DNA as the mother of three babies whose decomposed remains were found at her home near Rendon, was released from jail Friday on bonds totaling $70,000, a sheriff's office spokesman said.
New, 36, was arrested Thursday and charged with three counts of of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. She was released on bonds from the jail around 9:30 a.m. Friday, said Terry Grisham, the sheriff's spokesman.He explained that the county's Community Supervision and Corrections Department will monitor her activities as investigators prepare to present the charges to the district attorney's office.New was taken into custody Thursday after investigators called her in for an interview and told her that DNA tests showed that she was the mother of the three babies.She then asked for a lawyer, and questioning ended, Sheriff Dee Anderson said Thursday.The owners of property in the 6000 block of Tranquility Circle near Rendon found one set of infant remains beneath the porch of a mobile home after New and her brother, Paul New, 30, moved out in August. Investigators found another set of remains nearby. The bones had been doused in chlorine bleach.In March 2008, the property owners found a suitcase containing bones in a field about 40 yards from the mobile home, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.The siblings have consistently denied knowing anything about the remains, investigators said.But 23 people linked to the News or to the property owners were asked to give DNA samples for testing, Anderson said. Rachel New’s sample showed that she was the mother of all three infants, Anderson said.The bodies — two boys and a girl — were so "badly decomposed and compromised," Anderson said, that forensic investigators cannot tell whether the babies were born alive and killed, or were stillborn. They have also been unable to determine who the father was.Paul New has not been ruled out as a suspect, the sheriff said."We’re certain that some wrongdoing occurred here," Anderson said Thursday. "If someone passes away, you cannot put them in a Tupperware container and pour bleach on them and hide them away."Rachel and Paul New rented the mobile home from Rex and Auneta Southern. Rex Southern found the first set of remains, later identified as a boy with blond hair, in a suitcase hidden by thick vegetation, his wife said Thursday. "I’m spellbound and speechless," Auneta Southern said. ". . . I’ve known [New] for more than three years and never had anything but nice conversations with her."
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