She doesn’t alter her speed or show any signs of reaction. She put the bucket on the mother’s lawn, went back to her boyfriend’s house with the empty wagon, and never came back.
Allegedly, Landon entered the local police department overnight and “was uncooperative with the officers who questioned her and provided aliases.”
She consented to visit a local hospital, where she was taken into custody. Landon told the DA that she buried her phone near a tree in the neighborhood after placing it in a trash bag.
When the phone was recovered, the Sheriff’s Office “later discovered that just before she killed Bella, Landon recorded the child in her bedroom sobbing and repeatedly saying, ‘I want my grandma,’ through her tears.”
According to the release, “In turn, Landon placed a bath towel at the bottom of Bella’s bedroom door to dampen the sound of her cries.”
The phone also allegedly revealed that she “repeatedly” looked for a criminal defense lawyer while sending texts to Bella’s father, saying they were “tucked in their beds and that the tooth fairy had visited Bella’s older sister.”
Other messages purportedly sent to “two of her stripper friends” following the murder included the following: “I’ll always remember the good times we had” and “Always remember me as Valentine”—her dancer name.
