In August 1988, Tammy Sue Kerns was a 20-year-old Air Force X-ray technician. She was hiding her pregnancy from everyone.
Kerns went into labor while she was working during the night shift at the regional hospital at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, she would tell law enforcement agents 36 years later.
Kerns hid herself in the ultrasound room and locked the door. Once she delivered the baby boy, she placed her hand over his mouth until he stopped breathing, according to a fact narrative with which Kerns said she agreed and that was filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court…