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On Thursday, police in Opelika announced that they identified the girl as Amore Joveah Wiggins, from Norfolk, and arrested her father as a suspect in her death.
Police identified the girl's father as Lamar Vickerstaff Jr., 50, and arrested him in Jacksonville, Florida, charging him with felony murder.
Alabama police say they have identified the remains of a young girl that were found in 2012 and arrested her father in connection with her death. Opelika police Chief Shane Healey said Thursday that investigators ran the child's DNA profile through a genealogical database and identified her family. He says her name was Amore Wiggins and that police believe she ranged in age from 4 to 7 years old when she died. Police arrested her father, 50-year-old Lamar Vickerstaff Jr., in Jacksonville, Florida, on felony murder charges in connection with her death. He and his wife, who is not the girl&...
Alabama police say they have identified the remains of a young girl that were found in 2012 and arrested her father in connection with her death