(CNN) -- Missouri authorities issued an Amber Alert for an infant who may have survived after a woman was slain and a fetus removed from her body.
Bobbi Jo Stinnett, who was eight months' pregnant, was killed Thursday afternoon in her home in Skidmore in northwestern Missouri, the Nodaway County Sheriff's Department said.
The initial Amber Alert said that "the fetus was extracted from the victim."
A statement from the sheriff's department said the fetus was removed by the same "person or persons" who killed Stinnett.
Authorities said Stinnett was killed at around 3 p.m. (4 p.m. ET).
The alert said that the suspect "has blond hair and [is] possibly driving a red vehicle."
It advised people to look for bloody clothing or towels and said the infant could have health issues and would have a freshly cut umbilical cord if alive.
Authorities said that Stinnett was a white woman and the offspring also was believed to be a white female.
* * *Feel free to leave comments below about the implications this sort of thing has for the abortion debate.
Update: Amazingly, the baby has been found alive and healthy. Sheriff Ben Espey said: "The child is probably going to be okay." Thank God.
