She eventually consented to be committed after agreeing to be admitted to a hospital for a psychiatric assessment. After the father reported her missing,
Fontenelle’s mother hurried home from work to discover the bucket on her yard, prompting the police to issue an Amber Alert. Fontenelle was still in her pajamas when the police lifted the lid.
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.
