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June 30, 2021
On June 28
th, 1988, two men fishing in the Pascagoula River near the wildlife management area in Wade found the child’s body in the water entangled in fishing line. Two days later, on June 30
th, an autopsy revealed that the child was three to five weeks old and she died from drowning.
She became known as Baby Jane Doe II. She is buried in the Jackson County Memorial Park in Pascagoula, next to the Baby Jane Doe II found in 1982 in the Escatawpa River. That baby was identified late last year.
No suspects or leads were ever found in the 1988 case. Sheriff Mike Ezell says by exhuming the child, investigators hope to collect DNA to build a family tree.
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