Search for Genesis Reid’s remains to start in Enterprise

ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WAKA) – The grim search for the remains of two-year-old Genesis Reid is scheduled to begin this week in Enterprise.

As Action 8 News has reported, the little girl’s mother, Adrienne Reid, has been charged with capital murder and abuse of a corpse in her daughter’s death.

Adrienne Reid reported Genesis missing on February 16. She said her daughter had disappeared from a bed at an apartment on Apache Drive wearing Minnie Mouse pajamas. The next day, Adrienne Reid was arrested on a felony charge of filing a false report to police.

Enterprise Police Chief Michael Moore says it was clear that Genesis hadn’t been seen since Christmas Day. He says investigators believe Adrienne Reid killed her daughter, put her body into a duffle bag and then threw the bag into a dumpster.

Moore says detectives received video showing Adrienne Reid walking toward the apartment complex dumpster with a duffle bag. Two days later, additional video captured Adrienne Reid returning to the dumpster area carrying toys and other items believed to belong to Genesis.

Crews will now start the search for Genesis Reid’s remains at the Coffee County Landfill. Coffee County Sheriff Scott Byrd will help manage the search, based on the garbage truck schedule and GPS monitors on landfill equipment. Byrd says investigators have been able to narrow down a search area of approximately 200 feet by 100 feet, 8 to 10 feet deep.

“I need the public to understand that this will not be an easy or fast search,” Byrd said in March, noting the search must be methodical and may take up to ten weeks or more. “The subject dumpster where the bag we are looking for was picked up on December 26. It was compacted in the truck that picked up it. It was taken to a distribution facility and compacted again. It was taken on another truck to the landfill where it was processed further with bulldozers and a compacting machine.”

Coffee County Landfill on Alabama Highway 125 near Elba – Photo from Coffee County Landfill

A total of 60 people are expected to be working at the landfill.

Enterprise Police Chief Michael Moore put the scale of the search by saying the area has gone from thousands of football fields down to about two. Moore said it will be a physically, emotionally and mentally demanding search.

“I got a soft place in my heart for children,” Moore said. “I think anybody that’s in law enforcement or public safety, first responders, we all have that soft spot. And our goal is to bring justice to little Genesis. And she’s not forgotten. Being able to come down to a specific area, it will shorten it greatly. And hopefully we don’t have to be out there for nine weeks. We can bring her home sooner,” he said.

Adrienne Reid is being held without bond and is awaiting trial.