TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo police arrested the parents of Baby Doe, who was found dead in a car back in 2017, on Monday. 

On May 11, 2017, officers were sent to the Vaness Drive off Bancroft on a report of a deceased infant found in a vehicle that had been sitting idle for a long period of time, according to police.

Husband and wife Jacob, 33, and Jenna Cisneros, 34, were charged with involuntary manslaughter. They are each being held on a $500,000 bond and will appear in court for a preliminary hearing on Feb. 11 at 9 a.m.

Toledo police provided new information on the case during a news conference late Tuesday morning. Lt. Dan Gerken says investigators were able to connect the suspects to the case using a private company called “AdvanceDNA”. Gerken would not go into specifics about how the DNA company linked the parents to the investigation, but did say police collected DNA evidence from the Cisneros and determined they are the parents of Baby Doe.

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Authorities explained Jacob and Jenna Cisneros do have three other children. They are with other family members and Lucas County Children Services is involved. 

Gerken says police are still meeting with the Lucas County prosecutor’s office and this is still an on-going investigation.

The case remained unsolved and the baby’s identity unknown since the gruesome discover in 2017. 

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Two years after the baby was found, Lucas County Prosecutor Julia Bates said there were still a lot of unanswered questions.

“How did that baby come to be in that car that day? How long was it there, who put it there, how did it come to be there?” Bates said in August 2019. 

Bates added the case left the baby frozen in a morgue, waiting for his case to be solved. 

Baby Doe was found dead in this 1988 Mustang in May 2017.

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Meanwhile, an 11 Investigates report from 2019 showed that some nonprofits called for his burial. 

“This little guy needs to be buried. He needs to have a proper burial and laid to rest,” Founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes  Monica Kelsey said.

The body of Baby Doe was found abandoned in a blue Mustang wearing these clothes in May 2017. The baby’s body, which was found decomposing, has remained in the Lucas County morgue since.

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At that time, Lucas County Coroner Dr. Diane Scala-Barnett said her office did collect DNA evidence from Baby Doe but was concerned about its viability since the baby was found so badly decomposed. Additionally, she said the investigation hadn’t revealed anyone to compare that DNA to yet. 

Recent DNA evidence shows that the Cisneros couple is the baby’s biological parents, according to police records released Monday. 

TPD thanked the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office, the Lucas County Coroner’s Office and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation for their hard work on this difficult case. 

This is a developing story, check back for updates. 

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