Breasia Terrell case: Human remains confirmed as missing Iowa girl

DAVENPORT, Iowa (TCD) --

Davenport Police announced human remains found on March 22 in DeWitt, Iowa, have been positively identified as Breasia Terrell, a 10-year-old girl missing since July 10, 2020.

Terrell was reported missing to the Davenport Police Department on July 10, 2020.  Davenport Police, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and the FBI have been investigating since. The investigation was ongoing, Davenport Police said Wednesday.

The girl’s identity was confirmed after an autopsy was performed on the found remains.

Fishermen made the discovery March 22 in a pond in a rural area, the Quad-City Times reports.

The FBI Omaha Field Office said Breasia Terrell was last seen in the early hours of July 10, 2020, in the 2700 Block of 53rd Street in Davenport, Iowa, wearing a white T-shirt, shorts and white or pink flip-flops.

WQAD reported in July that Terrell was reported missing after going to spend the previous night at an apartment with her half-brother, and his father, Henry Dinkins. Dinkins was named a person of interest in the girl’s disappearance.

Dinkins, 48, was held at the Scott County Jail in Iowa on a sex-offender registry violation charge and parole violation. He was wanted in Bureau County, Illinois, on two counts of manufacturing and delivering more than two pounds of meth.

Davenport Police Chief Paul Sikorski said in a press conference Wednesday the investigation into Terrell's disappearance had been conducted as a homicide for the past nine months, WQAD reports.

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