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.
By DAVID SHARP
Associated Press Jun 29, 2021
Jun 29, 2021
WALDOBORO, Maine ⢠With millions of people having stayed home from places of worship during the coronavirus pandemic, struggling congregations have one key question: How many of them will return?
As the pandemic recedes in the United States and in-person services resume, worries of a deepening slide in attendance are universal.
Some houses of worship wonât make it.
Smaller organizations with older congregations that struggled to adapt during the pandemic are in the greatest danger of a downward spiral from which they canât recover, said the Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, lecturer at the Harvard Divinity School and co-pastor of a church in Boston.
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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.