Opinion ID: 4534441
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Heading: JT goes missing and is later found hanged.

Text: 1 Because he pled guilty, Garcia has no right to appeal his underlying capital-murder conviction. See Miss. Code Ann. § 99-35-101 (Rev. 2015). 2 ¶4. On the evening of July 16, 2014, five-year-old JT2 was running in and out of the patio door of her apartment, playing with a neighbor outside. Around 5:30 p.m., her mother called to her, but JT did not answer. After two hours of searching, JT’s mother called 911. Police, neighbors, and volunteers systematically searched the area through the night. ¶5. At 7:45 a.m. the next morning, police found JT’s half-naked body in the bathroom of an abandoned trailer approximately fifty yards from JT’s apartment. She had been hanged with a pair of socks tied around her neck and fastened to the shower window. There were signs of sexual penetration of her vagina and anus. There were also scratch marks around her neck showing she had tried to free herself from the makeshift noose before she died from ligature strangulation.