Aviana Weaver's mother, Angelica Scarlett, says she received a cryptic text message one week ago from her daughter informing her that she was being held against her will.
The baby's father allegedly told police he saw Kimberly Nelligan, 33, apply heroin residue to their child's gums more than 15 times in the roughly two months prior to her death from fentanyl intoxication.
DNA lifted from a tossed cigarette allegedly smoked by Robert Tyrone Hayes at a bus stop last week was recovered by investigators. It links him to homicide of Rachel Bey and two other unsolved slayings, authorities say.
Authorities in Alabama believe Monic Battles was present when Marka "Willoe" Watkins was savagely murdered. Kendal Battles, Monic's husband, had been previously charged, along with Joseph Nevels and Devon Hall.