“I’m at peace with what I’ve decided to do” was another text she sent to the mother of an ex-boyfriend who was raising two of her children prior to the murder.
Her physicians and lawyers contended throughout the trial that she was experiencing a “psychotic episode” at the time of the murder and only recalled.
“Bella clawing at her own neck and to holding Bella’s body while listening to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.”
Furthermore, according to one witness, she had “post-traumatic stress disorder rooted in her childhood in a Khmer Rouge death camp in her native Cambodia.”
However, prosecution witnesses asserted that although Landon probably suffers from a personality disorder, she was sane at the time of the girl’s death.
And why did she do it? According to the DA’s release, one witness claimed that Bella was receiving child counseling and that Landon “was mean to her” prior to her passing.
Bella gained the confidence to tell her father about Landon with the support of counseling. As a result, her father confronted Landon.
