Jackson County Sheriff’s Department sends off DNA samples of Baby Jane Doe II
On June 28th, 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 30th, 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.
Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell said, “You know hopefully we can make some connections somewhere and lead us to a parent or lead us to a suspect or try to find out what has happened here because you know we really don’t know. We don’t have any information at all. You know like I say with the advancement of technology over the years all across the country if you look, you know cases have been solved and a lot of good things have come from this so hopefully we are looking for some information that will come out so we can solve this case.”
Jackson County Sheriff Investigator Matthew Hoggatt said, “We have had tremendous headway in technological advancements for the use of DNA and building family trees to try to figure out who she might be related to. So just like a previous case we had a few months ago with Baby Jane I, we are going to try to utilize the same efforts on this case to determine who she is and the circumstances of how she ended up deceased here in Jackson County.”
Anyone with information on this case can call the sheriff’s department at 228-769-3063 or Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers.
