Fargo, N.D. Police Chief David Todd, right, pauses during a press conference at Fargo City Hall to update members of the media on the case of Savanna Greywind, whose body was found Sunday evening in the... (Associated Press) 
 
 FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A suspect in the death of a pregnant woman initially claimed the woman gave up her newborn daughter but later admitted taking advantage of her to get the child, according to court documents filed Monday that shed no light on how the woman died. 
 
 Brooke Crews, 38, and her boyfriend William Hoehn (HAYN), 32, were each charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the death of 22-year-old Savanna Greywind. But the brief charging summary does not reveal how police and prosecutors believe Greywind died. 
 
 Greywind, who was eight months pregnant when she disappeared Aug. 19, was the subject of several large searches before her body was spotted by kayakers Sunday night in the Red River near Fargo, wrapped in plastic and duct tape. 
 
 "Savanna was a victim of a cruel and vicious act of depravity," Fargo police Chief David Todd said. 
 
 The complaint offers conflicting stories from the two suspects. Crews told police she arranged to have Greywind come to her apartment on Aug. 19 and told her how to induce labor. Greywind came back two days later to give her the newborn baby, Crews said. 
 
 "Crews admitted she had taken advantage of Savanna Greywind in an attempt to obtain her child and possibly keep the child as her own," the complaint said. 
 
 But Hoehn told police a different story, according to the documents. He said he came home Aug. 19 to find Crews cleaning up blood in their bathroom. Hoehn says Crews presented him with an infant baby girl and said: "This is our baby. This is our family." 
 
 Hoehn told police he took garbage bags containing bloody shoes and his bloody towels and disposed of them away from the apartment complex, according to the documents. 
 
 Crews and Hoehn are also charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping and giving false information to police. They didn't enter pleas during a court hearing Monday. Bond was set at $2 million for each of the suspects. 
 
 Neither showed much emotion, although Hoehn objected to the bail amount as "unattainable for any regular person." 
 
 Their court-appointed attorneys, Stormy Vickers for Hoehn and Monty Mertz for Crews, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. 
 
 Family members declined to comment outside the courtroom. Amanda Vivier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, said she struggled with her emotions during the hearing. Greywind was also a member of the tribe. 
 
 "I have a lot of anger," said Vivier, spiritual director for the Native American Christian Ministry, a church frequented by the Greywind family. "I've got a lot of questions that I don't know how to process." 
 
 The two suspects were neighbors of Greywind. Authorities recovered her body from the Red River on Sunday night, three days after finding the newborn. The girl, who was in good health, was with Crews when she was arrested. 
 
 Police say Crews and Hoehn acknowledged it is Greywind's child, but say they are doing DNA testing to be sure. 
 
 At the same time Greywind's body was found, Todd said, a farmstead on the Minnesota side of the river that is the border between that state and North Dakota was being searched and suspicious items were found that led authorities to believe it might be a crime scene. 
 
 Todd did not say whether there were signs of trauma to Greywind's body, which was undergoing an autopsy in Minnesota's Ramsey County. 
 
 A memorial was started on Monday on the steps of the apartment building where Greywind lived with her parents and where she was last seen alive. 
 
 It included flowers, candles, stuffed animals and a portrait of a young Native American woman with the inscription: "May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears, and above all, may silence make you strong!" 
 
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 FILE - This combination of file photos provided by the Cass County Sheriff's Office in Fargo, N.D., shows William Hoehn, and his girlfriend Brooke Crews, the two people charged in connection with the murder of Savanna Greywind in North Dakota in August 2017. Greywind was eight months pregnant. Crews,... (Associated Press) 
 
 FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota woman convicted of killing her pregnant neighbor by cutting the baby from her womb testified Tuesday that her boyfriend had pressured her to "produce a baby" after figuring out she had lied about being pregnant. 
 
 Brooke Crews told the court that she had concocted a phony pregnancy to keep from losing William Hoehn, who is on trial for conspiracy in the August 2017 death of 22-year-old Savanna Greywind. Hoehn has admitted helping to cover up the crime but says he didn't know that Crews had planned to kill Greywind and take her baby. Crews testified that she never "explicitly" told Hoehn that was her plan. 
 
 Crews said Hoehn appeared surprised when he entered the bathroom in their apartment and discovered she had cut Greywind's baby from her body. Crews said Hoehn then retrieved a rope and tightened it around Greywind's neck, saying: "If she wasn't dead before, she is now." 
 
 Greywind's daughter survived and is being raised by family. 
 
 Hoehn spoke regularly with his attorney, Daniel Borgen, during Crews' testimony but showed little emotion. Crews was crying and sniffling throughout. 
 
 "You never told Will that you had planned to do this, is that right?" Borgen asked. 
 
 "Not kill Savanna for her baby, no," Crews replied. 
 
 "In fact, there was never a conversation at all about killing Savanna and taking her baby," Borgen said. 
 
 "Not explicitly," she said. 
 
 It wasn't clear what Crews meant by "explicitly." 
 
 Crews later disputed Borgen's assertion that she had told a fellow inmate at her New England prison that she had strangled Greywind. She also disputed that she told the same inmate that Hoehn and Greywind were having an affair and the baby might be Hoehn's. 
 
 Crews described her relationship with Hoehn as rocky and violent, saying it was fueled by drugs and alcohol. She said they broke up at one point, and that's when she lied to him about being pregnant. She went so far as to email him a phony positive pregnancy test and sonogram photo. 
 
 In early August, Hoehn told Crews he didn't believe she was pregnant and said she needed "to produce a baby." Crews said she believed this was "an ultimatum." 
 
 "I took that to mean I better have a baby, no matter how it happened," Crews said. 
 
 Crews originally told police that Greywind had given her the child. She later told police they had argued and that she pushed Greywind down and knocked her out before cutting her open. A medical examiner testified Monday that there was no evidence of any head injuries. 
 
 Crews stuck to her story Tuesday, saying she pushed Greywind, who was knocked out when her head hit the bathroom sink. Crews said that's when she got a knife and began cutting the baby out. 
 
 Crews said the couple kept ropes around the house because Hoehn liked to tie her up during sex, including around her neck. She also said Hoehn expressed fantasies about killing people and Crews said she initially told him she would be interested in that too. 
 
 The medical examiner who performed the autopsy, Dr. Victor Froloff, testified Monday that he isn't sure whether Greywind died from blood loss or strangulation . 
 
 Greywind's disappearance sparked several searches before her body was found several days later, shrouded in plastic and dumped in the Red River. Crews testified Tuesday that police missed Greywind's body and her baby during three searches of the couple's apartment. 
 
 Crews testified that Greywind's body was in the bathroom closet and the baby was covered up next to Hoehn on a bed during one of those searches. She said Hoehn eventually moved Greywind's body to a hollowed-out dresser and the two of them carried it out of the apartment. 
 
 Fargo Police Chief David Todd did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on Crews' testimony. 
 
 Crews pleaded guilty to murder and is serving life in prison without parole. She said she has no agreement with prosecutors for a lesser sentence in exchange for testifying. 
 
 Greywind's death prompted North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp to introduce Savanna's Act, which aims to improve tribal access to federal crime information databases and create standardized protocols for responding to cases of missing and slain Native American women . A similar bill has been introduced in the House. 
 
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 The Latest updates from the trial: https://bit.ly/2Q2dR7t ||||| – In a discovery that ended a desperate eight-day search, kayakers on Sunday found the body of Savanna Greywind, the 22-year-old Fargo woman who has been missing since Aug. 19. 
 
 Fargo Police Chief David Todd said the body, which was wrapped in plastic and hung up on a log, was identified as Greywind, who was eight months pregnant. 
 
 Todd spoke to reporters just after 10 p.m. in a rural area on the Minnesota side of the river about 6 miles north of Moorhead. 
 
 Around the same time as the kayakers discovered the body, a search party found some suspicious material at a nearby farmstead. Todd said investigators believe that farmstead may be a crime scene. 
 
 The body is being taken to Ramsey County, Todd said. 
 
 Even before the search for Greywind was over, many here in the Red River Valley were coming to the horrifying realization that the she may have been the victim of "womb raiders" who forcibly took her baby. 
 
 Joe Greywind, the father of missing 22-year-old Savanna Greywind, got a hug from volunteer search coordinator Christina Becker as they gathered to help organize the efforts to find Greywind on Sunday morning at Trollwood Park in Fargo. 
 
 On Sunday, before Greywind was found, searchers combed through head-high thickets of brush and thistles along the Red River, police brought in dogs specially trained to sniff out placentas. 
 
 In coffee shops, in hotels, in churches, the Greywind case and its shocking possibilities were the overwhelming topic of conversation. 
 
 "It's like a Lifetime movie," said Fargo resident Tammy Krause, shaking her head sadly. 
 
 "Nothing surprises me anymore," said Bill Larson of Moorhead, Minn. 
 
 Greywind, a nursing assistant at a senior care facility, disappeared Aug. 19 from the apartment she shared with her parents in a middle-class neighborhood of north Fargo. 
 
 Her parents told police she had gone upstairs to a neighbor's apartment to help with a sewing project and never returned. 
 
 Five days later, Fargo police serving a search warrant found a newborn baby girl in the apartment where Greywind was last seen and arrested the residents, 38-year-old Brooke Crews and 32-year-old William Hoehn. Both are being held in the Cass County jail on charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. 
 
 Jail officials said the couple are expected to make their first court appearance Monday afternoon. 
 
 At a news conference last week, Todd said authorities were investigating a number of possible scenarios, including whether Greywind's child was removed from her womb or if labor had been induced. 
 
 Friends of Greywind reacted to news of her body being found with anguish. 
 
 "My heart just got torn out of my chest," said a friend on Greywind's Facebook page. "I am absolutely heartbroken." 
 
 Another Facebook friend said, "words can't explain how angry and heartbroken I am." 
 
 Parents keep tabs on search 
 
 Throughout the weekend, buses and vans arrived with groups of American Indians from throughout the Dakotas and Minnesota. Three busloads came from the Turtle Mountain Reservation near the North Dakota-Canada border, where Greywind lived as a child. 
 
 "She was bright. She was into music and running around outside," said Sierra Demery, who babysat Greywind when the missing woman was about 9 years old. "Just the usual things for a kid that age." 
 
 Demery described Greywind's family as close. "They're nice. They have a really close relationship with their children," she said. 
 
 This undated photo released by the Fargo Police Department shows Savanna Greywind who is missing and was last seen at her Fargo, N.D., apartment Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. Police Chief David Todd released a statement Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, saying a man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of Greywind, who was pregnant. Formal charges are pending. Authorities found a newborn in an apartment in the building Thursday but haven't said whether Greywind is the baby's mother. (Fargo Police Department via AP) 
 
 Greywind's parents, Norberta LaFontaine-Greywind and Joe Greywind, have stayed in close contact with volunteers searching for their daughter. The couple appeared early Sunday morning at Trollwood Park along the riverfront, where search leaders set up an informal command post to coordinate the efforts of hundreds of volunteers. 
 
 The parents conferred briefly with search leaders, listening intently and exchanging hugs. Then they climbed into a white Pontiac sedan and drove away. Search coordinators asked the media not to approach them, saying they didn't want to speak publicly. 
 
 The father of Greywind's baby, Ashton Matheny, told Fargo TV station WDAY that authorities won't let family members see the child until DNA testing confirms Greywind as the mother. 
 
 "It breaks my heart," Matheny said in the interview. "They're admitting it's [our] baby." The couple had planned to name their child Haisley Jo. 
 
 Greywind "has a kind soul. She's loving. She cares for everyone," Matheny said. "All she does is love and give and care." 
 
 The baby is at Sanford Children's Hospital in Fargo under the custody of Cass County Social Services. 
 
 At the Greywind family's apartment building, the door to No. 5, the upstairs apartment where Greywind is believed to have disappeared, is boarded up with plywood. Sawdust and wood chips litter the carpeted hallway. 
 
 "The cops came and knocked the door down," according to a resident of the building who was home when officers arrived on Thursday. "They shouted, 'Get down on the ground!' " 
 
 The resident said Greywind's disappearance has been frightening and refused to give a full name, fearing the suspects might have friends who would seek to do harm. 
 
 "I am very — this is — wow. That's all I can say," the resident said. 
 
 In a vacant lot in an industrial area of Fargo, among the truck stops and machinery depots bordering Interstate 29, a group of Indians was on day four of a seven-day sweat ceremony for Greywind. 
 
 In a poplar-framed sweat lodge draped with heavy tarps, they drummed and chanted, rousing the spirits of their grandfathers to look after the missing woman. On Saturday night, a dozen people were in the lodge, while Jim Hinschberger tended the fire outside. 
 
 The tragedy of Greywind's disappearance has brought people together, said Hinschberger, whose spirit name is "Brave Crow." 
 
 "Not only native people," he said, "but white people and black people." 
 
 Brave Crow leaned on his rake and gazed at the moon and stars appearing in the twilight sky. 
 
 "I think she may have crossed over," he said quietly.
– A suspect in the death of a pregnant woman initially claimed the woman gave up her newborn daughter but later admitted taking advantage of her to get the child, according to court documents filed Monday that shed no light on how the woman died. Brooke Crews, 38, and boyfriend William Hoehn, 32, were each charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the death of 22-year-old Savanna Greywind, the AP reports. Greywind, who was eight months pregnant when she disappeared Aug. 19, died as a result of homicidal violence, per police; no further details were given. Her body was found Sunday night in the Red River near Fargo, wrapped in plastic and duct tape. The complaint offers conflicting stories from the two suspects. Crews told police she arranged to have Greywind come to her apartment on Aug. 19 and told her how to induce labor; she said Greywind came back two days later to give her the newborn. "Crews admitted she had taken advantage of Savanna Greywind in an attempt to obtain her child and possibly keep the child as her own," the complaint said. But Hoehn told police a different story: He said he came home Aug. 19 to find Crews cleaning up blood in their bathroom, and that Crews presented him with an infant baby girl and said, "This is our baby. This is our family." Hoehn told police he took garbage bags containing bloody shoes and his bloody towels and disposed of them away from the apartment complex, where Greywind also lived. The baby girl, who was in good health, was with Crews when she was arrested.