Lullaby and Goodnight Author:Hughes, D.T. For nine months, Darci Pierce, an infertile 19-year-old woman, managed to convince her husband that she was pregnant. On the day she said her baby was due, Pierce strangled Cindy Lynn Ray, a nine-months-pregnant woman chosen for her resemblance to Pierce, cut open Ray's abdomen and womb with a car key, and took her nearly full-term baby.