"I never laid down with her," she said. "I would have never, ever slept with another child again."

But Bonnie Vazquez, the guardian of one of Misty Sorensen's other children, said Sorensen tried to keep Alexandria's death a secret.

Sorensen hid out in a motel for a couple days afterward so no one could confront her about the child's death, Vazquez said. The girl's obituary didn't run in the newspaper until after the funeral, the woman said recently.

She suspects Sorensen was on drugs when Alexandria died. Had police taken a hair or blood sample they would have known that, Vazquez said. She also said police were slow to connect the fact that Misty Star Sorensen was the same mother who lost a daughter under similar circumstances a few years earlier.

Sorensen told police she last checked and fed Alexandria about 4 a.m. the day she died. Though Alexandria had been sick and throwing up, Sorensen said the baby looked fine when she put her down to sleep in the car seat.

Sorensen was to enter a drug abuse family treatment center with Alexandria the morning Sorensen found her daughter wasn't breathing about 10 a.m.

Sorensen and her daughter were staying with her mother on Gooseberry Court in Taylorsville at the time.

"I kept thinking, not again, not again. I can't believe this happened again," she said from behind the visitor's glass in the jail, with a small New Testament at her side.

Sorensen knows how her case looks. She knows what people think. She knows she continued to make bad choices after Kalee died — staying on drugs, for one thing.

"People would come by to say how sorry they were she had died, and then they'd get me high."

Although she admits to her bad decisions and says she is done with drugs forever, the idea that people think she's a baby killer upsets her greatly.

"That's a horrible thought," she said, sobbing. "That's not the kind of person I am. I am not abusive of my kids."

Mudrock's investigative report into Alexandria's death points out several inconsistencies in Sorensen's story.

• The boyfriend told police he fed Alexandria a bottle between 1 and 4 a.m. Sorensen said she arose later and fed her the rest of the bottle. She first told police she picked her daughter up from an infant seat and held her in her arms. Then she said she picked the child up from the bed where she lay with her and her boyfriend, according to Mudrock's report.

• An autopsy revealed Alexandria's stomach was "completely empty" and there was "not much" in the small intestine, indicating the child was not fed when Sorensen said she was.