Louisiana police arrest alleged killers of baby found in trash bag in 1992
by Victoria Bekiempis from US news | The Guardian on (#69RGN)
Police used genetic genealogy analysis of evidence collected after the body was found to find the alleged killers - her parents
For more than three decades, answers surrounding the grisly death of a baby girl known to them simply as Baby Doe eluded Mississippi authorities. The infant's body was discovered inside a garbage bag in the south-western Mississippi community of Picayune on 17 April 1992.
Authorities determined that someone had smothered Baby Doe and deemed her untimely death a homicide. Picayune police started to investigate, collecting evidence - some tying the infant to neighboring Louisiana, reportedly including local newspapers - but the case went cold.
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