'Baby Doe' Is an Unflinching Look at a Devastating Case of Denied Pregnancy

'Baby Doe' Is an Unflinching Look at a Devastating Case of Denied Pregnancy

In June 2019, Gail Eastwood-Ritchey was arrested at her home in Euclid, Ohio. When police arrived and asked the 49-year-old mother and grandmother if she knew why they were there, she responded: “a baby that was left.” That’s the first of many startling confessions in Baby Doe, a new documentary that premiered earlier this month at SXSW and that chronicles the fallout of a decision Eastwood-Ritchey made 26 years earlier. Director Jessica Earnsha…