Testing of DNA definitive
DNA tests have ruled out the possibility that a girl found in Wisconsin this year is Everlyse Cabrera, the North Las Vegas foster child who disappeared in 2006, police said Thursday.
North Las Vegas police said they received the results of the DNA tests, which compared the blood of Everlyse's biological parents to the girl in Green Bay, Wis., on Monday.
"The results proved that the girl is not Everlyse Cabrera," a statement from the department read.
The findings proved to be yet another dead end in the case. Local authorities now have no leads to pursue.
Everlyse's case has been closed, said North Las Vegas police spokesman Mark Hoyt. It won't be reopened unless police receive new information to pursue. "We're back to a waiting game again."
The Green Bay police discovery in April of a young Hispanic girl with links to Southern Nevada lifted the hopes of family and authorities here, who had gone two years with no solid leads,
But police in Green Bay quickly downplayed the possibility that the child was Everlyse. Instead, they believed the girl plucked from a Green Bay drug house was the daughter of a former Nevada women's prison inmate.
To be sure, North Las Vegas police performed the DNA tests, Hoyt said.
Green Bay police couldn't be reached for comment Thursday.
Everlyse was 21/2 years old when she vanished on June 10, 2006. Her foster parents, Manuel and Vilma Carrascal, told North Las Vegas police the toddler had let herself out of the house sometime in the night.
Her biological parents sued Clark County Family Services and the foster parents. The biological parents reached a $300,000 insurance settlement with the foster parents, who were dropped as defendants in the suit.
Hoyt said the newly returned DNA results do not shed light on who the Wisconsin girl is, only who she isn't.
Green Bay police records list the name of the girl's mother as Danielle Allen and the girl's date of birth as March 14, 2005. Online records for Nevada's prison system show that a Danielle R. Allen, now 26, was incarcerated at the North Las Vegas women's prison on that date.
