MATTHEW OGDEN | Sentenced to 38 years for killing his infant daughter | Baby Sarah (1-month-old) had a fractured skull, hemorrhaging to her brain and a lacerated liver | Autographed Letter/ Envelope Signed | SEALED

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Matthew Ogden was arrested in the death of his daughter, Sarah Ogden, after his wife, Phyllis Wyatt, told investigators that she awoke either late June 19 or early June 20, 2015, to see her husband holding their newborn by the waist, yelling and shaking her violently, according to police. He took her into the next room, she said, where she continued to hear shouting, pounding and thumping. Wyatt told authorities she stayed in bed while this was happening. She said that when Ogden came back into the bedroom with the baby, Sarah wasn’t crying anymore, and Wyatt rolled over and went back to sleep.

The infant could not be revived when emergency personnel arrived at the couple's Parachute apartment the next morning. The causes of death were later determined to be a fractured skull, brain hemorrhaging, and a lacerated liver.

Ogden and Wyatt fled Colorado after being questioned by police. Sarah had a twin brother who was not injured in the incident and was separated from the couple, who were arrested in northern Minnesota and returned to Colorado to face charges.

Wyatt pleaded guilty to criminally negligent child abuse resulting in death and received an eight-year prison sentence in February.

Investigators testified in court that the couple moved to Colorado from California because they were afraid of losing custody of their newborns due to their marijuana use.

District Attorney Sherry Caloia described it as a "fair and harsh" deal for Ogden, one that takes into account the infant's death while also acknowledging that Ogden did not intend for that outcome. This plea also has precedent across the state in similar cases where a child died and what caused it is unclear, according to Caloia. Some medical information about Sarah's death is contradictory, making it difficult to pinpoint exactly what happened, she said. "We don't have a real clear understanding of what happened that day ... whether this was some sort of accident, whether it was a reckless act or whether it was done intentionally. And I don't believe we could have proven it.”

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