Murder of Amore Wiggins

[4] On January 28, 2012, a resident discovered a skull at Brook Haven Trailer Park, 1775 Hurst St. in Opelika, Alabama.

Police searched the surrounding area and found more remains, including a pink, long-sleeve shirt with heart buttons and ruffles, nearby on a creek bank.

Forensic artists at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children created an image of what Jane Doe may have looked like.

[6] In 2017, the University of South Florida Institute for Forensic Anthropology & Applied Science performed isotope testing on her bones, which indicated she lived in Southeastern United States.

[7] In September 2016, a former Vacation Bible school teacher at the Greater Peace Church in Opelika provided photos of a child who resembled Wiggins that were taken in the summer of 2011.

The Opelika Police Department teamed up with Othram laboratories to use advanced DNA testing and investigative genetic genealogy.

[9] Based on tips, detectives believed the unidentified child may have had ties to Orlando, Florida, southeastern Virginia or northeastern North Carolina.

[10] In October 2022, Othram confirmed that Opelika Jane Doe has been identified as Amore Joveah Wiggins.

Sherry Wiggins was a native of Norfolk, and provided documentation showing that the Vickerstaffs obtained legal and physical custody of her daughter in 2009.

White stated that during Lamar Vickerstaff's police interview, he had confessed to murdering Amore, but denied inflicting the injuries which had been observed on her remains and through the church surveillance footage.