{"id":1666499,"date":"2022-09-30T10:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666499"},"modified":"2022-09-30T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:52:20","slug":"unsolved-the-disappearance-of-baby-sabrina-aisenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unsolved-the-disappearance-of-baby-sabrina-aisenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsolved: The Disappearance Of Baby Sabrina Aisenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funsolved-the-disappearance-of-baby-sabrina-aisenberg%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666499&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The morning of November 24, 1997, began like any other for Marlene and Steve Aisenberg. The couple woke up in their middle-class home in Valrico, Florida, and prepared to start their day.<\/p>\n<p>But Marlene quickly noticed something was wrong: The door leading to the garage was open, as well as the garage door.<\/p>\n<p>The couple said they regularly forgot to close the garage door and lock the door to their house, believing they lived in a safe neighborhood. After finding the door to the house open, Marlene rushed to check on her three children and discovered that 5-month-old Sabrina was missing.<\/p>\n<p>Panicked, the Aisenbergs called the police at 6:42 a.m. and told the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office that baby Sabrina had been kidnapped. Police began a massive search for the baby, but never found her. The couple spent years appearing on major television programs such as \u201cDateline NBC\u201d and \u201cLarry King Live,\u201d begging for the safe return of their child, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>As with many missing children stories, without leads or evidence, suspicion turned to the parents. In 1999, after the couple moved with their remaining kids to Steve\u2019s childhood home in Bethesda, Maryland, the FBI smashed through the family\u2019s front door with a battering ram. The couple was charged with lying to and misleading investigators, as well as the public, about the disappearance of Sabrina, and benefiting financially from the case\u2019s publicity.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s indictment admitted that it had secretly bugged the family\u2019s home in the three months after Sabrina disappeared, and claimed it had recorded conversations between Steve and Marlene admitting they killed their own baby.<\/p>\n<p>Outlets like The Washington Post published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/local\/daily\/sept99\/kidnap11.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">articles<\/a> about the indictment clearly skewed against the Aisenbergs and mocking the minute differences in their story about the morning they discovered Sabrina was gone. For example, the Post chided the family because Marlene \u201csaid she was awakened by the noisy fish tank \u2014 or was it the television?\u201d Later in the same article, the Post says the Aisenberg case \u201cis reminiscent of the Susan Smith slayings, in which the South Carolina mother drowned her two children in a lake and then claimed they had been kidnapped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The federal government claimed in the indictment that it recorded Marlene telling Steve, \u201cThe baby\u2019s dead and buried! It was found dead because you did it. The baby\u2019s dead no matter what you say \u2014 you just did it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve allegedly responded by saying, \u201cHoney, there was nothing I could do about it. We need to discuss the way we can beat the charge. I would never break from the family pact and our story, even if the police were to hold me down. We will do what we have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite not being charged for the murder of their child, public opinion turned on the Aisenbergs after the indictment, though they denied the charges and said they had never said the things the government claimed. A federal judge later declared that many of the recordings were inaudible or taken out of context by detectives, and ruled that the transcriptions were faulty, ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/disappearance-baby-sabrina-aisenberg-case-stands-today\/story?id=53757079\">reported<\/a>. In February 2001, the prosecution dropped the charges against the Aisenbergs before their trial began.<\/p>\n<p>Three years later, the federal government was ordered to pay the family nearly $1.5 million in defense fees.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been more than 20 years since baby Sabrina disappeared, and her whereabouts are still unknown. Police had one lead back in 1997 \u2014 a neighbor, Pete McDonald, who lived in the same neighborhood in Florida as the Aisenbergs and reported hearing a baby crying when he took his dog out at night.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald has since passed away, but his wife Mary told \u201c20\/20\u201d back in 2018 that her husband told her about hearing the baby at night, but \u201cdidn\u2019t think anything of it\u201d until she told him about Sabrina\u2019s disappearance the next day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen he says, \u2018Wow, I heard a baby crying in the middle of the night,\u2019\u201d Mary said.<\/p>\n<p>She said no one followed up with her husband after he reported hearing the baby crying. But several years ago, she did meet with the Aisenberg\u2019s former private investigator and showed him where her husband said he heard the baby.<\/p>\n<p>Around the 20-year anniversary of Sabrina\u2019s disappearance, a couple of women <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insideedition.com\/baby-sabrina-mystery-woman-claims-she-child-abducted-crib-20-years-ago-41605\">contacted<\/a> the Aisenbergs saying they thought they might be Sabrina and provided DNA samples. Nothing came of their claims.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the Aisenbergs told \u201c20\/20\u201d that they still believe Sabrina is out there and hope to see her again someday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love you and we hope to see you soon,\u201d Steve told the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want you home,\u201d Marlene added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning of November 24, 1997, began like any other for Marlene and Steve Aisenberg. The couple woke up in their middle-class home in Valrico, Florida, and prepared to start their day. But Marlene quickly noticed something was wrong: The door leading to the garage was open, as well as the garage door. 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