Missing Three-month-old girl Arieanna Day abducted from her bed in the middle of the night

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The mystery of what happened to baby Arieanna Day is to again get an airing in front of a jury.

At a brief hearing Wednesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court, a decision was made to set a second jury trial for Andrew Christopher Terry, 32, of Blacksburg, on a charge of concealing a dead body. Judge Marc Long set aside April 1 and 2 to hear the case.

Terry had a two-day jury trial on the same charge in September. It ended when jurors could not reach the necessary unanimous decision on the case.

Also unresolved was any finding of what happened to Arieanna, who was 3 months old in September 2018, when she was reported to have vanished from her mother’s Roanoke home.

Arieanna’s mother, Jessica Day, testified in September that she gave multiple versions of events to law enforcement officers and others, including that Arieanna had died from being smothered after they fell asleep together, that the girl was given to a cousin of Terry’s to be raised, and that she was kidnapped by an adoption agency.

At an earlier hearing in the case, Day testified that she put Arieanna down on a bed to sleep and later came back to find her missing.

At the September trial, Day said none of these stories were true. She said Arieanna might have been injured in a fall from a baby carrier and that Terry took her away, and that for awhile, she had suppressed her memories of what occurred.

Day also testified that in the run-up to the first trial, she called Simpkins’ office to say that Arieanna was alive and well.

No one has been charged with killing Arieanna.

Case of missing baby Arieanna to return to Montgomery County court

CHRISTIANSBURG — The mystery of what happened to baby Arieanna Day is to again get an airing in front of a jury.

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