On the last episode of Solvable, a truck driver named Ted alerted the

Jackson County Sheriff's Office to an adult's body floating the Pasqugula River off I-10 in Southern Mississippi.

When Deputy Mike Wa responded to the call, he mistakenly began his search at a bridge further east on the

interstate. A bridge that stretched over the Esca-Tapa River, not the Pasqugula River. There, he spotted the

dead body of a baby girl in the river. So, by sheer chance, the Sheriff's Office had two bodies

they were looking for, on the same day, and two different rivers, one right next to the other.

And when investigators tried to reconnect with a truck driver who reported the first body,

he was nowhere to be found. According to an autopsy report, given to us by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office,

the little girl, known as Baby Jane, weighed between 20 and 25 pounds, and would have stood two and a

half feet tall. When she was found, she was barefoot, and wearing only a red and white checkered dress

and disposable diaper. Her strawberry blonde hair, with loose curls, was about shoulder length,

and she had either brown or blue eyes. Due to the state that her body was in, when authorities

found her, her eyes were clouded, and it was difficult to make out their true color. When the

pathologist conducting her autopsy measured her stage of decomposition, those readings indicated

that she had died not long before entering the water. It was highly likely she'd died somewhere

in the ballpark of 36 to 48 hours before being found on the morning of December 5, 1982.

Despite being described as well-nurished, she had no food in her stomach, and her bladder and

bowels were empty, indicating it had likely been days since her last meal or drink. The pathologist

used Baby Jane's 12 little teeth to estimate her age. She was roughly one and a half years old.

The report states she died from suffocation, but at the time, drowning was considered synonymous

with that ruling. Baby Jane Doe lived only 18 months before her life was cut short in the dark

waters of the Eskittapa River. For law enforcement, so many questions remain. Like who was this child?

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