Alabama police arrested the father of a child, whose remains were found in 2012 in a trailer park, with murder on Tuesday after advances in DNA technology led detectives to him.
through 15,000 case files from the Alabama Department of Public Health and investigated thousands of tips related to Jane Doe’s remains, the Opelika Police Department said in a press release. Police attempted to put together a DNA profile but were unsuccessful because of the condition of the remains.
Dr. Barbara Rae-Venter examined the profile, along with the Firebird Forensics Group, and it led to the identification of relatives and more investigative leads.Police charged Lamar Vickerstaff Jr. with murder and Ruth Vickerstaff with failing to report a missing child. Detectives notified Vickerstaff of his daughter’s death, police said, though he did not provide the investigators with any additional information about the identity of his daughter.
Dr. Rae-Venter reviewed several potential matches for who Jane Doe’s mother could be and detectives narrowed it down to 37-year-old Sherry Wiggins, who confirmed she was the biological mother.Wiggins told detectives she is originally from Norfolk, Virginia and gave birth to Amore Joveah Wiggins in January 2006.
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