AVONDALE, La. — The parents of a baby that was found dead in Picayune Mississippi back in 1992 have been arrested, Louisiana State Police announced on Thursday.
The Picayune Police Department says that based on later forensic evidence arrest warrants were issued for 50-year-old Inga Johansen Carriere of Avondale, and 50-year-old Andrew K. Carriere II of River Ridge, for First Degree Murder.
The arrests were made in Jefferson and Lafourche parishes. The investigation between the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations, LSP, and Picayune Police determined that the crime took place in Louisiana and the body was dumped in Mississippi.
Back in April of 1992, a Picayune farmer gathering trash bags from a local pizzeria trash dumpster to feed scraps to his animals discovered the newborn female inside one of the trash bags collected.
The police department says an autopsy revealed that the baby was probably born approximately three weeks premature and lived a few minutes before being smothered that morning and then dumped in the pizzeria dumpster.
After the discovery and an investigation opened the unidentified infant was buried at Lee's Chapel Baptist Church with a headstone donated by the community which read “Heavens Angel.”
For nearly 30 years the case went cold until Picayune Police reopened the case in 2021.
With the help of forensic work between the Louisiana State Police and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations, investigators identified the parents.
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