Footage of Laken Snelling, a University of Kentucky cheerleader who is suspected of hiding her newborn’s body, has come to light.
It shows her dancing with the school’s STUNT team just a few months before the startling discovery.
Police were called to the 21-year-old’s off-campus home in Lexington on August 27, 2025, after a newborn baby was found wrapped in a towel and put in a black garbage bag in a closet.
The baby was declared de@d at the scene, and an autopsy later failed to determine the cause of de@th, pending further microscopic tests.
The police report says that Snelling admitted to giving delivery and disguising the evidence by cleaning up and throwing away the baby and the supplies in the same trash bag.
Snelling is accused of hiding the birth of a baby, abusing a corpse, and interfering with physical evidence. She has said she is not guilty of the charges.
The youngster was on Kentucky’s competitive cheer team for three years and was in videos from the National Championship in Nashville, Tennessee, in April.
A video that has been posted online shows her doing stunts, being lifted by her teammates, and flipping other members of the team.
But only a few months after this video was put up and taken down from FloCheer’s YouTube page, Snelling would be arrested for a much worse crime.
Snelling’s arrest has raised a lot of issues that haven’t been answered, such as who the baby’s father is.
Her ex-boyfriend, 21-year-old Izaiah Hall, a quarterback at Cumberland University, was asked to give a DNA sample to see if he is the father. Justin Smith, Hall’s father, claimed, “The police in Lexington had him come down to the station to give a sample.” Sky News Australia said that I don’t know anything about this and that we don’t know if Izaiah is the father or not.
Before her arrest, Snelling’s most recent boyfriend, Conner Jordan, who used to play college basketball, was also connected to the cheerleader. Jordan has subsequently removed his profiles from social media.
After the cheerleader was arrested, she was freed on a $100,000 bond and put under house arrest at her parents’ home in Tennessee. She is waiting for her next court date on September 26.
The University of Kentucky has acknowledged that Snelling has been a member of the STUNT team for the previous three seasons, but they told anyone who had more questions to contact the Lexington Police Department.
The Lexington Herald Leader says that her enrollment status is uncertain, but it has been reported that she dropped out before the start of the new semester.
The case is still being looked into.