12-30-2011, 03:04 PM
The News-Sentinel
Three felony charges were filed in Allen Superior Court today against the man who police say has admitted to killing and dismembering 9-year-old Aliahna Lemmon last week.
Michael L. Plumadore, 39, is charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and removing a body from the scene of a suspicious death “with intent to hinder a criminal investigation.” All are felonies, and Chief Allen County Deputy Prosecutor Mike McAlexander said today the office “has not precluded” the possibility of seeking the death penalty against Plumadore.
According to court documents, Plumadore admitted under questioning Monday that he had killed the girl four days earlier by repeatedly striking her head with a brick, placing her body in trash bags, then placing it in a freezer of his trailer in the Northway mobile home park off North Clinton Street. Plumadore also reportedly told police he later cut Aliahna's body into pieces with a hacksaw, placing some parts in a nearby trash bin but keeping her head, feet and hands in his freezer.
The probable-cause affidavit filed earlier this week allowed officials to keep Plumadore in jail for up to 72 hours, after which time he would have to be released or formally charged, as he was today. The charges were to be read to Plumadore in his jail cell, as is common procedure, according to McAlexander.
Aliahna had been reported missing around 8:45 p.m. Dec. 23. She and her two sisters had been staying with Plumadore – described as a “trusted family friend” – because the girls' mother, who lives nearby, was reportedly ill.
Plumadore is expected to appear in court again Wednesday. Some sources indicated Aliahna's sisters had been placed in protective custody, but that could not be officially confirmed. McAlexander would not rule out the possibility that others could also be charged in connection with her death.
I fucking hope the sisters have been taken into protective custody and that mommy dearest is one of the persons that may also be charged in her murder!
Three felony charges were filed in Allen Superior Court today against the man who police say has admitted to killing and dismembering 9-year-old Aliahna Lemmon last week.
Michael L. Plumadore, 39, is charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and removing a body from the scene of a suspicious death “with intent to hinder a criminal investigation.” All are felonies, and Chief Allen County Deputy Prosecutor Mike McAlexander said today the office “has not precluded” the possibility of seeking the death penalty against Plumadore.
According to court documents, Plumadore admitted under questioning Monday that he had killed the girl four days earlier by repeatedly striking her head with a brick, placing her body in trash bags, then placing it in a freezer of his trailer in the Northway mobile home park off North Clinton Street. Plumadore also reportedly told police he later cut Aliahna's body into pieces with a hacksaw, placing some parts in a nearby trash bin but keeping her head, feet and hands in his freezer.
The probable-cause affidavit filed earlier this week allowed officials to keep Plumadore in jail for up to 72 hours, after which time he would have to be released or formally charged, as he was today. The charges were to be read to Plumadore in his jail cell, as is common procedure, according to McAlexander.
Aliahna had been reported missing around 8:45 p.m. Dec. 23. She and her two sisters had been staying with Plumadore – described as a “trusted family friend” – because the girls' mother, who lives nearby, was reportedly ill.
Plumadore is expected to appear in court again Wednesday. Some sources indicated Aliahna's sisters had been placed in protective custody, but that could not be officially confirmed. McAlexander would not rule out the possibility that others could also be charged in connection with her death.
I fucking hope the sisters have been taken into protective custody and that mommy dearest is one of the persons that may also be charged in her murder!
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