The newborn girl was smothered and tossed into the dumpster of a Mississippi restaurant.
A Louisiana couple has been arrested for the 1992 cold case slaying of a newborn girl who was smothered and tossed into the dumpster of a Mississippi restaurant.
The heartless killing sent shockwaves through the town of Picayune, Miss., where a farmer discovered the tiny body while collecting garbage to feed his animals.reports. Although Picayune Police collected some pieces of evidence from the crime scene, the case went cold until investigators reopened it in 2021 — when a Mississippi Bureau of Investigation agent offered to help, aided by a grant that would cover forensic genetic testing of the evidence.The couple were charged with first-degree murder.The tests found matching grandparents who lived in Louisiana, leading state police to gather DNA of their four children.
The pair are being held without bond at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Facility while awaiting extradition to Mississippi.A farmer discovered the tiny body while collecting garbage to feed his animals.Freedy Drennan, a former investigator who worked on the case decades ago, thanked his successors for their persistence as he visited the baby’s grave at a local cemetery.
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