WHITE PLAINS, Ga. — It’s been more than five years since a dog brought the remains of a newborn to his owner, and the case still hasn’t been solved.
But local and state law enforcement agencies haven’t forgotten.
The case, known as “Baby Doe,” remains under investigation by the Greene County Sheriff’s Office and agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Region 6 Office in Milledgeville, Georgia.
Authorities have been actively pursuing the case since a family’s dog found an infant’s foot somewhere on Chester Road in White Plains, Georgia, on May 15, 2018.
“We looked at a lot of different leads and avenues and sent a lot of things to our crime lab to check for DNA testing to see if they matched the DNA of other people who may have been related to this baby.” said Mary Chandler, Special Agent in Charge of the GBI Region 6 Milledgeville Office. “We have also worked closely with the Greene County Sheriff’s Office over the past five years to determine the name of the woman who gave birth to this baby and to determine the circumstances surrounding the death.”
Chandler said the sheriff’s office asked the GBI for assistance once they began the investigation.
The sheriff’s office requested the case file to determine what the GBI has done with the case so far.
“We sent it to them probably a few months ago,” Chandler said. “We worked with them the whole time.”
Several people were interviewed as part of the joint investigation, she said.
““There are a few people we still want to interview, but they are out of the country, which has made it difficult,” Chandler said. “We still have to follow up on at least these two interviews.”
The infant’s foot was sent to the GBI Crime Laboratory in Decatur to attempt to determine the child’s gender and extract DNA.
““We sent more evidence to a lab in Texas to see if they could help us as well,” Chandler said.
The Othram Laboratory is based in The Woodlands, Texas.
“They ran the family’s DNA to find out what other relatives could be traced back to the baby’s foot in this case,” Chandler said. “So we had to cut back a lot.”
To date, nearly 100 different investigative actions have been conducted by local and state law enforcement agencies in this case, she said.
“That’s all we’ve done so far in this case,” Chandler said.
This includes interviews, laboratory work and evidence collection.
The case remains active and ongoing, Chandler said.
