On the last episode of Solvable, Hope Manning discovered that a second baby

girl had been murdered in Southern Mississippi in 1988, six years after Jackson County deputy

Mike Waw first found baby Jane in the Eskittop River. The identity of that child is still unknown.

In 2019, baby Jane, from 1982's DNA, was sent for genetic genealogy analysis, leaving everyone in

Jackson County, breathlessly anticipating the results. The condition of the sample from baby

Jane's water-filled grave was degraded though, so finding out who she was was going to take the

lab in Houston a while to determine. While authorities waited, they began reviewing the

possibility that baby Jane's case. In the case of her missing mother, baby connected to other crimes

that occurred in Southern Mississippi in the years before and after 1982. In today's episode,

we're exploring a few of those cases to figure out if they have any relevance to the case of baby Jane.

The first case that investigators looked at in light of everything they'd uncovered about baby

Jane was the disappearance and murder of 13-year-old Rosemary Leventoski in February of 1973.

Rosemary attended St. Martin, Jr. High School in the town of Ocean Springs, Mississippi,

about 15 miles west of Pascagula in Jackson County. Around one o'clock during the school day,

Rosemary had a 10-minute break between her math and English classes and excused herself to get

her the restroom. She left her books, coat, and purse on top of her desk but never returned to the

classroom. The classroom resumed without her and soon several of her classmates noticed that Rosemary

was gone. A few students repeatedly brought up Rosemary's absence to teachers but no one did

anything and no searches got underway to figure out where she'd gone. The school also did not report

Rosemary's absence to her parents. It wasn't until several hours later when the school day ended

and Rosemary failed to return home that authorities were notified and a search began.

Lieutenant Darren Versauga of the Pascagula Police Department spoke with us about the investigation.

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