Leah Willingham July 01, 2021 - 4:32 PM
For decades, the two little grave markers sat side by side in a Mississippi Coast cemetery, identified only as Baby Jane and Baby Jane II.
The infants, both âJane Does,â were found on different occasions, in 1982 and 1988, in Jackson County rivers and buried by community members, after investigators found no leads in either case.
Then late last year, investigators were able to identify Baby Jane through DNA testing, almost 40 years after her death. This week, investigators exhumed Baby Jane II from her resting place in Jackson County Memorial Park in Pascagoula, with hopes of finding her true name.
She wasn t a nobody : Infant exhumed 30 years after death
LEAH WILLINGHAM, Associated Press/Report for America
July 1, 2021
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This photo provided by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department shows the grave marker of Baby Jane II at Jackson County Memorial Park in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The weeks-old infant, found in the Pascagoula River in 1988, was never identified. She was buried by community members next to the grave site of another unidentified infant found in a Jackson County river in the 1980s called Baby Jane. (Matt Hoggatt/Jackson County Sheriff’s Department via AP)Matt Hoggatt/AP
For decades, the two little grave markers sat side by side in a Mississippi Coast cemetery, identified only as Baby Jane and Baby Jane II.
For decades, the two little grave markers sat side by side in a Mississippi Coast cemetery, identified only as Baby Jane and Baby Jane II.
The infants, both Jane Does, were found on different occasions, in 1982 and 1988, in Jackson County rivers and buried by community members, after investigators found no leads in either case.
Then late last year, investigators were able to identify Baby Jane through DNA testing, almost 40 years after her death.
This week, investigators exhumed Baby Jane II from her resting place in Jackson County Memorial Park in Pascagoula, with hopes of finding her true name.
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ZIP Advertisement She wasn t a nobody : Unidentified infant being exhumed decades after death in search of DNA match Share Updated: 11:36 PM EDT Jul 1, 2021 By LEAH WILLINGHAM, Associated Press/Report for America Matt Hoggatt/Jackson County Sheriff’s Department via AP This photo provided by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department shows the grave marker of Baby Jane II at Jackson County Memorial Park in Pascagoula, Mississippi. SOURCE: Matt Hoggatt/Jackson County Sheriff’s Department via AP
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