and last updated 2021-05-13 16:41:12-04
NEW IBERIA, La. â A Jeanerette woman arrested in connection with a 25-year-old unsolved homicide of a baby in Iberia Parish has been indicted.
The 16th Judicial District Court indicted Sonia M Charles in the January 24, 1994 homicide of Baby Jane Doe. She is facing a charge of Second-Degree murder.
In 2019, The Iberia Parish Sheriff s Office told KATC that a detective Hotard reopened the 1994 Jeanerette homicide after new leads were developed. The Acadiana Criminalistics Laboratory (ACL) reexamined evidence from the 25-year-old case and developed a DNA profile which matched with a family relation to a CODIS ( Combined DNA Index System ) entry.