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DNA cold case: Louisiana woman charged in 25-year-old murder of ‘Baby Jane Doe'
JEANERETTE, La. -
A Louisiana woman has been charged with murder after DNA evidence linked her to a newborn girl left to freeze to death in a trash can 25 years ago, authorities said.
Sonia Charles, 50, of New Iberia, was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder, according to Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office officials. She was booked into the parish jail to await a bond hearing.
The newborn, dubbed ‘Baby Jane Doe’ by investigators, was found Jan. 24, 1994, in a 55-gallon drum behind Bob’s Car Wash in Jeanerette, according to Sheriff’s Office spokesman Maj. Wendell Raborn. The Aadiana Advocate in Baton Rouge reported that the girl died of hypothermia.
The baby, who lived for a few hours, was found with her thumb in her mouth. Her umbilical cord was still attached to her body, and the placenta in which she had developed was attached to the cord.
Raborn told Nancy Grace in a Sept. 3 episode of her podcast, “Crime Stories,” that the temperatures in that part of Louisiana were in the 40s the night the baby was discarded.
DNA cold case: Louisiana woman charged in 25-year-old murder of ‘Baby Jane Doe'
JEANERETTE, La. -
A Louisiana woman has been charged with murder after DNA evidence linked her to a newborn girl left to freeze to death in a trash can 25 years ago, authorities said.
Sonia Charles, 50, of New Iberia, was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder, according to Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office officials. She was booked into the parish jail to await a bond hearing.
The newborn, dubbed ‘Baby Jane Doe’ by investigators, was found Jan. 24, 1994, in a 55-gallon drum behind Bob’s Car Wash in Jeanerette, according to Sheriff’s Office spokesman Maj. Wendell Raborn. The Aadiana Advocate in Baton Rouge reported that the girl died of hypothermia.
The baby, who lived for a few hours, was found with her thumb in her mouth. Her umbilical cord was still attached to her body, and the placenta in which she had developed was attached to the cord.
Raborn told Nancy Grace in a Sept. 3 episode of her podcast, “Crime Stories,” that the temperatures in that part of Louisiana were in the 40s the night the baby was discarded.
