When investigators found Landon’s phone close by, they saw a video of Fontenelle sobbing and declaring, “I want my grandma.” While telling her lover that Fontenelle and her sister “were tucked.
In their beds and that the tooth fairy had visited Bella’s older sister,” she allegedly conducted 16 internet searches on the reputation of a certain criminal defense lawyer.
Fontenelle died from suffocation as a result of blunt force trauma and manual strangulation, according to the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s findings.
She also had scratches and bruises on her head. It was possible that Fontenelle was unconscious when Landon put her in the container but still alive.
According to Landon’s lawyers, she “did not know right from wrong when she killed Bella.” According to a doctor, Landon was experiencing a “psychotic episode”
When she murdered Fontenelle and had post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of her early years spent in a Cambodian death camp.
Although Landon had a personality disorder, according to a forensic psychologist who presented testimony for the prosecution,
