Opelika Jane Doe investigation leads to arrests nearly 11 years later
She was known as 'Opelika Jane Doe', but Florida police have ID'd Amore Joveah Wiggins and arrested her father, Lamar Vickerstaff Jr., in her death.
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She was known as 'Opelika Jane Doe', but Florida police have ID'd Amore Joveah Wiggins and arrested her father, Lamar Vickerstaff Jr., 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.
Lamar Vickerstaff is charged with murder and wife Ruth Vickerstaff with failure to report a missing child in the 2012 case of Amore Joveah Wiggins.
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