Body of missing Jacksonville mother found, baby suspected dead

<p>Deputies were combing through a landfill for the body of a 10-month-old baby believed to have been dumped in trash taken there from Florida.</p><p>The child's mother was found dead in a remote wooded area Friday about 55 miles southwest of her home in Jacksonville, Fla. Lynda Jean Wilkes, 40, and her baby, Jay-Quan Mosley, were last seen April 22, when they met with a man about child support payments.</p><p>Authorities believe the child's body was dumped in some trash that was taken to the Valdosta landfill, Lowndes County Sheriff's Capt. J.D. Yeager said.</p><p>About 40 people were helping search two acres of the landfill where trash was piled 10 to 12 feet deep, Yeager said. An expert in landfill searches was called in to help.</p><p>Meanwhile, the man whom Wilkes was scheduled to meet the day she disappeared remained jailed in Duval County, Fla., on an unrelated sex charge. John Mosley Jr., 39, has been questioned about Wilkes' disappearance. His bail was set at $100,000.</p><p>A court had ordered Mosley to pay child support to Wilkes for the missing boy, but he denied being the father.</p><p>Wilkes had four other children.</p>

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