The little girl whose body was found at an illegal dump site in Ware County in 1988 has been identified and her mother and the mother’s live-in boyfriend at the time are facing charges in the child’s murder.
The little girl whose body was found at an illegal dump site in Ware County in 1988 has been identified and her mother and the mother’s live-in boyfriend at the time are facing charges in the child’s murder. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Monday that DNA genome sequencing led to investigators identifying the girl, known for decades as “Baby Jane Doe,” as 5-year-old Kenyatta Odom, who was also known as “Keke.
” Evelyn Odom, 56, Kenyatta’s mother (who is also known as Zmecca Luciana) and Ulyster Sanders Sr., 61, are facing the following charges: Since the girl’s body was found on Dec. 21, 1988, the GBI and the Ware County Sheriff’s Office had working on the investigation together, looking at other local, state, and national missing persons cases to see if there was any connection to Baby Jane Doe. Ware County Sheriff Carl James, who responded to the initial call reporting the discovery of the body in 1988, said the child was found in a wooded area a short distance from a roadway
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