After Death of 3-Week-Old Prompted Landfill Search, Father Charged With Murder

Published on June 6, 2024

PALMDALE, Calif.—The father of a 3-week-old baby who went missing from a Palmdale home in early May has been charged with murdering the child, whose disappearance prompted a search of an Antelope Valley landfill, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced June 5. Yusuf Dewees, 24, was charged with one count each of murder, assault on a child causing death and child abuse under circumstances or conditions likely to cause great bodily injury or death. Mr. Dewees is in custody in Ogden, Utah, and it was unclear when he would be returned to Los Angeles for arraignment. Mr. Dewees is accused of killing his child, Baki Dewees, sometime between May 2 and 3. The child’s body has yet to be found. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies conducted a multi-day search of the Antelope Valley Landfill last month in hopes of recovering the child’s body, to no avail....

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