BREAKING NEWS | A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office task force arrested a husband and wife linked to the mysterious death of a young girl in central Alabama.
The case of the “Opelika Jane Doe” has garnered national attention, leaving investigators without answers for more than 11 years. The FBI and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, or NCMEC, worked with local authorities to get leads on the case.
“The concern is fight or flight at this point,” said Lt. Rickie Valentine, a JSO supervisor involved in the arrest. “We don’t know everything; is he going to go ahead and take that opportunity and just start on the run. Instead, he was with his friend, his friend drove him directly here. They came up to the stop sign exited, put his hands in the air walked out, we peacefully took him into custody, walk back, put him in a police car. She’s been secured.
According to an FBI bulletin, investigators believed the child had been abused and malnourished for years. They deduced she was blind in one eye due to possible physical abuse. Officers shared photographs of the girl’s shirt and a lock of her hair to attract tips. Police said the Vickerstaffs never reported the girl missing and continued to collect child support from the girl’s mother for more than a decade.
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