More details on the story of Claudia Cortes, the 23-year-old mother in whose closet a newborn baby's body was found Sunday: The Harris County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled that the baby girl was strangled to death. Cortes, who was charged with tampering with evidence after she showed up at Ben Taub and insisted she hadn't given birth, though doctors found that she had, could face additional charges pending the outcome of an interview by Houston police.

Cortes was taken to Ben Taub on Sunday morning after she passed out in her southwest Houston apartment around 4 a.m., CPS' Estella Olguin told the Chronicle. When she arrived at the hospital, she said she had been two months pregnant and had had a miscarriage, but doctors examined her and found that she had delivered a full-term baby. Police went to Cortes' apartment at 5151 S. Willow and found the body of a newborn girl in a plastic bag in a closet. "The baby had something around its neck, and there was blood everywhere," Olguin said.

Olguin said that Cortes has admitted to police that she knew she was carrying a full-term baby, but she insists she can't remember anything after she went into labor. She remains in Ben Taub.