Alabama police say they have identified the remains of a young girl that were found in 2012 and arrested her father in connection with her death
This image shows a facial reconstruction created by a forensic artist at the National Center for Missing Exploited Children of"Baby Jane Doe" in Opelika, Ala. The remains of the child were found behind a mobile home in 2012. Opelika police announced on Jan. 19, 2023 that they used genetic genealogy to identify the girl as Amore Wiggins and have arrested a man they identified as her father.
Police Chief Shane Healey said investigators identified the girl by taking a genetic profile, developed from DNA extracted from the remains, and uploading it to a DNA database to look for relatives. “The level of dedication to this case, I have never seen in my entire career — to see a group of men and women coming together searching for a name,” the police chief said.
Amore's skull and bones were found on Jan. 28, 2012, in a trailer park in Opelika, a city of about 30,000 people roughly 55 miles northeast of Montgomery.
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