Police report new leads in Aisenberg case

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 27 (UPI) -- Police say they are investigating new leads into what happened to a missing Florida baby obtained by secretly recording a suspect talking to his jail cell mate.

Authorities used inmate Dennis Byron to get Scott Overbeck to say what he knew about the 1997 disappearance of baby Sabrina Aisenberg, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported Sunday.

In taped conversations, Overbeck allegedly said he was asked to dispose of the body of 5-month-old Sabrina Aisenberg, which he chopped up and dumped in crab traps, said a sworn statement obtained by the newspaper.

Overbeck said he got a boat with the dead baby inside from the Aisenbergs' home in Valrico, Fla., before Sabrina was reported missing, Byron said in a statement.

Byron's attorney, John Trevena, said the Hillsborough sheriff's attorney heading the investigation told him there were independent sources who corroborated the information gleaned by Byron.

Prosecutors indicted the Aisenbergs in 1999 for giving false statements and conspiracy, but the case later collapsed.