Missing Miami girl not Precious Doe

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Every week for a year now, Annette Johnson has met and prayed with other community members that police will identify a 3- or 4-year girl found beheaded last April.

The group thought their prayers had been answered this week when there were similarities between the Kansas City case involving the girl known as Precious Doe and that of a missing Florida girl. But those hopes were dashed when police announced Wednesday they think the cases are unrelated. That was good news in Florida where there's renewed hope that Rilya Wilson is still alive. Investigators now will turn to DNA testing to definitively rule out any connection between the cases.

"I feel like we're back to square one, starting all over again," said Johnson, co-chair of the Precious Doe Committee, formed to help police crack the case.

Johnson was among about two dozen people who gathered Wednesday at a makeshift memorial near where the girl's body was found April 28, 2001. The group huddled around a portable TV atop a park bench and watched a live broadcast of the day's police news conference.