The case of Kathryn Grant’s suicide has recently come to the public eye after it was discovered that she murdered her newborn baby 27 years ago. 

The baby, named “Jonathan Foundling” by police officials, was found dead in a bathroom in the basement of Oglethorpe House in 1996. 

The funeral of the baby, who weighed 8 pounds, was attended by around 200 people.

The case went unsolved for 25 years until detectives used DNA genealogical testing to solve it in March 2021. It was discovered that Kathryn had given birth to the baby boy and stabbed him to death. 

Kathryn Anne Grant was a UGA student who was living at Oglethorpe House at the time of the murder. No documents suggest Grant was questioned about the baby’s death during the initial investigation.

In June 2021, UGA detectives delivered blood samples from the baby and the mother’s placenta to a lab in Texas. 

The lab reported in September 2021 that it had found two people who might be related to the victim, and one of them was likely the father. 

Both men were identified and determined to be enrolled at UGA at the time of the murder. The officers then secured a search warrant to obtain their DNA.

On December 14, 2022, the man who was likely the father of the deceased newborn was interviewed and confirmed that he had a s*xual relationship with a woman named Grant, whom he only remembered by her last name. 

The detectives searched for a female student named Grant and found that Kathryn was staying in room 301 of Oglethorpe House at the time of the murder. 

However, it was reported that they also found Kathryn Grant obituary that showed she died in Wilkes County in 2004.

The detectives searched Grant’s campus records and found that her grades began dropping when she became pregnant and gave birth to the baby. 

UGA reported that the baby boy was of Grant; it was clarified that she was not doing well with her mental health at the time of her death. 

Kathryn committed suicide in Wilkes County in 2004 at the age of 29, eight years after murdering her child.

The case was closed after detectives identified the woman who allegedly gave birth to the baby.

UGA police released documents to Athens Banner-Herald as part of a disclosure request, revealing that they had recently closed the case.