Aliahna Lemmon disappeared two days before Christmas. Her body was found Monday night.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Sheriff: Michael L. Plumadore was a key person in the case from the beginning
A court document says Aliahna Lemmon's body parts were found in a freezer and a trash bin
The girl's grandmother describes Plumadore as a neighbor and close family friend
(CNN) -- Formal charges against a suspect charged in the dismemberment of a 9-year-old Indiana girl will be read on Friday.
Michael L. Plumadore, 39, is charged with one count of murder in the death of Aliahna Lemmon. Plumadore was being held without bond after Tuesday's initial court appearance. He was arrested Monday night after the missing girl's body was found.
"Some of the story we heard from the beginning with him led us to believe he was the key to this case that ... he was the one who was going to have the answers we were looking for," Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries told HLN's Nancy Grace on Tuesday night. "He was the one who saw her last. He was the one who had the most contact with her."
Babysitter admits to killing 9-year-old
In the probable cause affidavit released Tuesday, investigators with the sheriff's department said Plumadore admitted striking the girl repeatedly in the head with a brick while she stood on the front steps of his mobile home in the early hours of December 22.
He stored the body in garbage bags in a freezer at his house until evening, according to the affidavit, when he allegedly began to dismember it with a hacksaw.
Plumadore allegedly told investigators he threw parts of the body in a nearby commercial trash bin, but kept the head, hands and feet in his freezer, according to the document.
The document does not disclose a motive for the girl's death. Fries said the details of the autopsy will be released at a later date.
Plumadore's confession came Monday evening after several hours of interrogation by sheriff's deputies.
"It was very factual when he started telling them what happened. And they just had to sit there and listen to him as if they were just listening to a story with no emotion. Just trying to get him to say more and more and more," Fries said.
Amber Story, the girl's grandmother, had described Plumadore as a neighbor and close family friend.
She said Aliahna and her two sisters were staying with Plumadore for about a week while Aliahna's mother recovered from the flu.
Prior to the suspect's arrest, Story said she believed the girl could have sleepwalked out of Plumadore's Fort Wayne home early Friday morning and been taken. She said Aliahna suffered from partial hearing loss and partial blindness and has gotten out of her home while sleepwalking before.
Sorry about reprinting that article whole instead of just giving you the tag line and link.But it upset me so much,I had to just post it and step away.
I was talking to Jill [the website creator and my business partner here] and I told her that I had been accused of being judgemental and that moderators are supposed to be neuteral and such forth. She laughed and said,"Not here they aren't! We are humans beings here!"
And it's true.I am never wholly objective and it is hard for me not to stick my opinion in there somewhere.And the above article gave me some most definate feelings that we as a society have let the youth of this nation down in a big BIG way.We need to get our priorities strait so that children can be secure,safe and grow up to be fully functioning adults.They deserve more from us.More love,more attention and most definately more protection.
