Deputies say they have found human remains during a multi-state search for a 5-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Florida last week.
The remains were found in a wooded area between the cities of Liden and Demopolis in Alabama — more than seven hours away from Taylor Rose Williams home in Jacksonville, investigators announced Tuesday.
Taylor Williams search update: Human remains were uncovered in Alabama, victim identification is pending. pic.twitter.com/bM4oIqH1iq
Victim identification is still pending, as of Tuesday afternoon.
“At this point, JSO will await confirmation as forensic tests are completed,” the Jacksonville Sheriff Office said in a media release. “Operational efforts will now shift to secure and process the evidence at the scene.”
This story was originally published November 12, 2019 at 3:53 PM.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
