WXXV News 25
July 6, 2021
On June 28
th, 1988, two men fishing in the Pascagoula River near the wildlife management area in Wade found an infant’s body, which is now known as Baby Jane Doe II, in the water entangled in fishing line.
Two days later, on June 30
th, 1988, an autopsy revealed that the child was three to five weeks old and she died from drowning. Thirty-three years after the autopsy was performed on the newborn baby girl, Jackson County sheriff’s investigators exhumed her body.
After exhuming the body, investigators sent off DNA samples and are in the process of waiting to hear back. This DNA lab work was funded by a private grant from Season of Justice Corporation.