State Police investigators have arrested the parents of an infant female found inside a garbage bag in Picayune, Mississippi back in 1992. Inga Johansen Carriere was arrested in Avondale, LA on Feb. 28th and Andrew Carriere was arrested in Galliano, LA on March 9. State Trooper Kate Stegall says the two were booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center on first-degree murder…
“The cause of death being perinatal asphyxia due to smothering,” said Stegall.
The Picayune Police Department and Detectives Mississippi Bureau of Investigations reopened the investigation in 2021. Stegall says the breakthrough in the case is a testament to the advancements in forensic technology as DNA profiles and fingerprints were developed.
“Thankfully Picayune Police Department preserved that evidence for nearly 30 years,” said Stegall.
Stegall says the Picayune Police has various pieces of evidence, some of it tied to associations in Gretna, Louisiana
“Without that preservation of evidence, we would not be where we are today,” said Stegall.
State Police said that the investigation is ongoing.
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