The story of Laken Snelling, a University of Kentucky cheerleader, keeps getting deeper. Police were called to Snelling’s home on August 27, 2025, after receiving a report of an unresponsive infant. When they arrived, they found the newborn wrapped in a towel and placed in a garbage bag in her closet. She was arrested days later and charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant. An autopsy performed on the newborn was inconclusive. Now, her ex-boyfriend has allegedly been asked to provide a DNA sample.
There are claims that Izaiah Hall, the 21-year-old ex-boyfriend of Snelling, gave Lexington Police a DNA sample to see if it matches the baby she allegedly killed.
“Lexington police had him come down to the station to give a sample,” his father, Justin Smith, told the New York Post. He declined to give the newspaper any additional information.
“I don’t know anything on this and we don’t know if Izaiah is the father or not,” Smith said.
Hall dated Snelling sometime before she began dating former college basketball player Connor Jordan, the Daily Mail reported. According to the Post, the Daily Mail originally reported on the alleged paternity test. Hall and his father didn’t share many details with it either.
“I don’t really want to go into any more detail at this stage,” Smith said.
Not much is known about the young woman’s relationship with Hall or Jordan, but people have been looking at the 21-year-old’s social media for clues, People reported. On July 18, Snelling posted a series of pictures of herself in a long white dress with a young man who isn’t identified. “#couplesphotoshoot,” she captioned the post.
Some people in the comments are claiming that the images look like a maternity shoot and that Snelling was aware of her pregnancy.
“Girl this is a maternity shoot! You knew. You can see it!” one person wrote. “Bro, what?! These are so obviously maternity photos! Did he change his mind as it got closer…?”
It will reportedly take some time before a definitive cause of death is determined for Snelling’s newborn, a male. The Fayette County Coroner’s Office in Lexington confirmed an autopsy was completed on September 3, but the findings were inconclusive. According to LEX 18, a report noted the cause of death was listed as “currently undetermined.” Per the coroner, “extensive microscopic analyses are essential to determine the cause and manner of death” of the baby.
