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3 of 10: A Grave for Two

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True Crime

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

For 6 years Baby Jane laid alone, until 1988 when a second nameless baby girl was laid to rest beside her. The Solvable team explores how law enforcement discovered the second deceased child and if her case relates to Baby Jane from 1982.

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On the last episode of Solvable, the pathologist in Jackson County did

0:29.9

determine that baby Jane Doe was 18 months old and had died likely about a day or two before

0:36.0

she was found floating in the Eskittaba River.

0:39.2

200 strangers in Southern Mississippi memorialized her short life when she was laid to rest

0:45.2

in a plot purchased in part by an area law enforcement officer and his family.

0:51.3

Then after 2008, a new Jackson County Sheriff's Office investigator named Hope Manning took

0:57.7

over the case and decided to resume baby Jane's body.

1:02.9

While crews were digging at the cemetery, Hope made a startling discovery.

1:07.6

There was a second unidentified baby, interred beside baby Jane.

1:17.7

In the ground buried next to our baby Jane from 1982 was the body of another unknown deceased

1:25.4

little girl who we'll call baby Jane too.

1:29.9

Her grave marker stated that she entered and left this world in 1988.

1:35.7

Hope Manning was caught completely by surprise.

1:38.6

She knew a lot about the 1982 baby Jane case, but no one had ever mentioned that a second

1:45.7

baby Jane was buried in the same cemetery six years later.

1:51.2

Hope had rifled through boxes and boxes of investigative reports and evidence for baby

1:56.9

Jane from 1982 and even found an artist's rendering of what she would have looked like

2:02.6

in life.

2:03.6

But information about the circumstances surrounding baby Jane's tooth death was for lack of a better

2:09.4

word non-existent.

2:15.6

In my research as a genetic genealogist, I'm drawn to cases like baby Jane's tooth, a

2:20.6

case where there is no information, no one looking for the deceased, and they're just

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