{"id":390728,"date":"2015-08-31T18:14:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T23:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=390728"},"modified":"2015-09-01T17:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T22:15:02","slug":"body-found-nearly-a-year-ago-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=390728","title":{"rendered":"Body Found Nearly a Year Ago Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/Julie-Ann-Wiggins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/Julie-Ann-Wiggins-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Ann Wiggins\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-390729\" \/><\/a>JACKSONVILLE &#8212; Cherokee County authorities have announced a body found nearly a year ago has been identified. The body found between Alto and Wells on September 3, 2014, has been identified as that of Julie Ann Wiggins, a transient, in her early 50s. Her body was found while TXDOT crews were mowing near the intersection of US Highway 69 and County Road 2620. It took a DNA sample to determine the woman&#8217;s identity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Because the body was\tin the median for such a long time, it took forensic testing to determine her name. The initial autopsy was performed by a Tyler lab. The body was then sent to the University of North Texas Health and Science Center&#8217;s Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics Department. They collected the DNA and entered it into a national data base. The DNA profile matched that of Wiggins, whose DNA profile had been entered into the system by  Arizona Department of Public Safety&#8217;s Crime Lab. As far as the cause of her death, that has yet to be determined. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE &#8212; Cherokee County authorities have announced a body found nearly a year ago has been identified. The body found between Alto and Wells on September 3, 2014, has been identified as that of Julie Ann Wiggins, a transient, in her early 50s. Her body was found while TXDOT crews were mowing near the intersection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=390728\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Body Found Nearly a Year Ago Identified<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":390729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 07:56:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390730,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390728\/revisions\/390730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/390729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}