UNSOLVED LA - Leesville, ID woman in photo on infant's grave, Vernon Parish, 17 Jul 2020

[YaYa_521]

VPSO asking for help in identifying person in photo located on infant grave

Investigators have a picture of a woman who appears to be holding an infant. This photo was located on an unmarked grave which was on a plot that is for someone else. We'll need others to post info from the article as the photo maxes out my 10%.

Vernon Parish Sheriff Dept

 

[YaYa_521]

A person who commented on the VPSO FB post guesstimated, based on the hairstyle, that the pic might be from the early 90s. I found a profile for Julia Garcia who went missing from Baton Rouge in 1999. She left at night with her children although the circumstances don't say how old her children were at the time they disappeared. There's no picture of Julia.

Julia Garcia - LA Repository for Unidentified & Missing People
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Circumstances of Disappearance - Last seen at home in Baton Rouge, LA. She took both her children and may have gone to Mexico but there was no evidence that she crossed the border.

 

[cvaldez1975]

ok so the infant was buried on a grave of another person. was it a clandestine grave? was the other person also in the plot? was the infant in a casket? was the photo just sitting there? i know it said unmarked grave but i have seen older headstones w photos and water intrudes and it looks like that.

 

[Marg from Oz]

How did they find the infant buried there? What drew them to investigate this grave? Maybe someone just dropped the photo by accident.

 

[proctorelites]

Just specualting- I just assume someone's family member purchased this plot years ago and now, upon their family member's death, they called the cemetary to prepare the plot for the burial. The sexton begins digging? & discovered a grave in what should be an empty plot. There is no record of a burial in the plot, it was sold years ago for later use?? I can't imagine a picture blowing around and landing & sticking to the only unmarked grave in the cemetary. In light of the fact that there is no headstone/marker it makes me wonder if this was found inside a homemade casket/ suitcase/container (or whatever the child was placed in) at the time of burial.
My Explanation Does nothing to explain what appears to be sand ovr the pic, but all things decay with time, it may have been covered inside a container for a period until it decayed and eventually dirt took over and covered portions of the pic?
This is going to stick around with me until they make sense of it.

 

[MadMcGoo]

From the article:

“The cemetery has no record of the grave and it's located on a plot belonging to another person. The grave has no markings on it besides the photo

Chief Calvin Turner said it may have been a mistake by the funeral home.”