Known as "Baby Boy Horry" while unidentified, his case remained cold for over 11 years, until his parents were identified in March 2020.

Coroner reports made it apparent that the infant had died of hypothermia, due to exposure to the elements, but was otherwise viable at the time of death.

On March 3, 2020,[6] the Horry County Police Department released new information regarding the case, initially supplied by the child's father, Ronald Woodham III.

[7] Jennifer Lynn Sahr, formerly Rickel,[8][9] 32, of Pensacola, Florida, who was a student of Coastal Carolina University at the time, was arrested in North Myrtle Beach following the release of physical evidence confirming her as the mother of Baby Boy Horry.

[10] Sahr was incarcerated at the J. Reuben Long Detention Center in Conway on March 4, 2020, charged with the count of homicide by child abuse, where she faced 20 years to life imprisonment for her crime.

At this hearing, Solicitor Jimmy Richardson read a letter, penned by the child's father, Ronald Woodham III, on his behalf, as he was not in the court.

The letter read:"At this time, I would like to ask for privacy and respect for my family as we grieve over the death of my first and only born child and son.

According to Sahr's account, while she was in her sophomore year at Coastal Carolina University, she had a brief relationship with another student, Ronald Woodham III, with whom she had engaged in sexual intercourse.

In August 2008, she had visited a doctor on the university's campus due to feeling unwell, with numbness in her hands and feet.

[13] In 2020, Ronald Woodham III was informed of the case and that it had been determined through DNA that Baby Boy Horry was his child.

Woodham stated, "The day I was informed of my son's existence and murder, my world stopped spinning; I was in complete shock and full of every emotion imaginable.