After 37 years, Riverside Baby Jane Doe (1987) is Identified
Riverside Police Department Teams with Othram to Identify a 1987 Baby Jane Doe
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'' Othram assisted with investigators' reference testing efforts using KinSNP® Rapid Familial Relationship Testing, which allows investigators to infer kinship in closely and distantly related individuals. These efforts led to the identification and arrest of the infant's mother, 55-year-old Melissa Jean Allen Avila. Avila was 19-years-old at the time of the baby’s death. Detectives do not believe the infant’s father had any criminal culpability in the murder.''