Parents of Mississippi newborn charged with murder 30 years after baby found in dumpster

A Mississippi couple had been arrested greater than 30 years after their new child child lady was discovered lifeless in a Mississippi dumpster. 

Inga Johansen Carriere and Andrew Carriere II, each 50, had been every charged with first-degree homicide within the chilly case demise of the unnamed toddler, whose gravestone reads “Heaven’s Angel.”

Developments in DNA expertise helped police determine the couple, who had been residing in Louisiana, as suspects a long time after the newborn’s physique was discovered. Police in Picayune, Mississippi introduced the arrests on March 9.

The case dates again to April 1992, when a farmer discovered a “absolutely developed new child” lady wrapped in a towel stuffed in trash baggage behind what’s now a defunct pizzeria in Picayune, near the Louisiana border, police mentioned.

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The post-mortem confirmed the newborn was “in all probability” born that morning, about three weeks untimely, and “lived a couple of minutes earlier than being smothered,” police mentioned.

The state health worker dominated the case a murder, and the native police division preserved the collected proof and crime scene photographs for many years after the case went chilly.

The case was reopened in 2021 and included a multi-state investigation with a collection of occasions that unfolded during the last two years, which ended with the Carrieres’ arrests in late February and early March, in accordance with police. 

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Paul Fleming, who’s been a Jefferson Parish, Louisiana public defender because the mid-Nineteen Nineties, is representing Inga Johansen. 

He advised Fox Information Digital his understanding, via their preliminary investigation, is that the newborn was “stillborn,” which implies it is not thought of a new child or child, so the crime of homicide cannot occur because it’s legally “not an individual.”

Inga Carriere was charged with homicide three a long time after her new child child’s physique was discovered within the rubbish in Picayune, Mississippi. (Jefferson Parish Correctional Middle)

He mentioned they must watch for the post-mortem report, which will not be launched to the protection till after an indictment and that may take months. Then he desires an impartial pathologist to take away the report.

“We have solely seen a pair instances this outdated, however not that many,” Fleming mentioned. “DNA wasn’t that prevalent again within the ’90s. It was round, but it surely was a brand new science. It wasn’t executed frequently and took weeks to return again with outcomes … The age of the case can be problematic to prosecute and problematic to defend.”

After Picayune police reopened the case, investigators tracked down the newborn’s burial plot to the Salem neighborhood utilizing suggestions from retired officers.

“We had been suggested {that a} native church donated the plot and its members collected cash for a gravestone,” Picayune police mentioned in an announcement. “In Could 2021, a gravestone was discovered at Lee’s Chapel Baptist Church … with the gravestone (that) learn ‘Heavens Angel’ April 15, 1992 – April 15, 1992,” which was confirmed by the coroner. 

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The physique of a new child child was discovered behind this location at 704 Memorial Blvd. in Picayune, Mississippi on April 15, 1992.

Utilizing the most recent advances in DNA expertise, which has led to a latest growth in chilly case clearances, regulation enforcement recognized the couple as potential suspects. 

The Carrieres had been residing in Louisiana by August 2021, so the Louisiana State Police joined the investigation and obtained DNA samples.

“By way of investigative means, detectives had been capable of determine the toddler’s dad and mom as 50-year-old Andrew Carriere and 50-year-old Inga Johansen Carriere, who had been residing in Louisiana on the time of the demise,” Louisiana State Police mentioned in a press launch. 

Arrest warrants had been issued for the couple in Louisiana, and Inga Johansen was arrested on Feb. 28 at her residence in Avondale, Louisiana, and Andrew was arrested in Galliano, Louisiana on March 9. 

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They’re each being held at Jefferson Parish Correctional Facility with out bond after being extradited from Mississippi, in accordance with jail information. 

Fleming did not instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.