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Missing Indiana Girl Found Dead

By OLIVIA KATRANDJIANDec. 27, 2011

The babysitter charged with killing a 9-year-old girl who disappearedfrom an Indiana trailer park dismembered her body and kept herhead, feet and hands in his freezer, according to a police affidavit.
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Michael Plumadore, 39, shuffled into court today, manacled at thisfeet and hands. He was ordered held without bail, police said. He wasescorted by two Allen County police officers. There were additionalofficers in the courtroom for extra security.

He was jailed in the death of Aliahna Lemmon, 9, who disappearedfrom a Fort Wayne trailer park where she lived last week.

A police affidavit submitted to the court today stated that Plumadore"freely admitted" that in the "early morning hours" last Thursday, hestruck Aliahna in the head multiple times with a brick "while she wasstanding on the front steps of his residence."

Police Affidavit Contains Michael Plumadore' Confession

He put the girl's body in several trash bags and stuffed her in a freezeruntil nighttime came. He worked past midnight dismembering

Aliahna's body with a hack saw, the affidavit, obtained by ABC News,states. He put the pieces in garbage gas and tossed them in aDumpster of a nearby business, but kept her head, hands and feet inhis freezer.
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Plumadore did not tell police why he killed the young girl.

Plumadore, who had been babysitting Aliahna and her two sisters for a

week because their mother was ill, initially told police that he has lastseen Aliahna sleeping in his trailer on Friday but didn't alert police toher disappearance until Friday night because he believed she had gonehome to her mother.

Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries said the girl'sbody was found after 9p.m. Monday night.

According to the girl's relatives, Plumadore had been taking care of

and living with Aliahna's grandfather, James E. Lemmon, until he diedon Dec. 3, 2011, the AP reported. Plumadore was living in thegrandfather's trailer at the time of Aliahna's death.

"[Plumadore] was a trusted family friend," Aliahna's stepgrandfather,David Story, told the AP.

James Lemmon was 66 when he died, and had an extensive criminal

record, including convictions for child molestation in 2006 and was aregistered sex offender.
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Aliahna Lemmon

Plumadore was arrested after his third interview with police, Cpl.Jeremy Tinkel told ABCNews.com.

Fries said Plumadore has a criminal record in North Carolina andFlorida. Plumadore's next hearing is scheduled for Dec. 30.

The tragic discovery came the same day that police announced that theFBI had joined the investigation and candlelight vigil was being heldfor Aliahna in Fort Wayne.

A page had been set up on Facebook for the missing girl called "FindAliahna Marie Maroney Lemmon Missing from Fort Wayne, Indiana."On Sunday, the group posted, "Merry Christmas Aliahna where ever

you are! We won't give up on you!"

"No kid should be missing Christmas!" the post read.


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Missing Indiana Girl Found Dead

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Police: Babysitter beat, dismemberedIndiana girl

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) A babysitter and trusted neighbor hasconfessed that he bludgeoned a 9-year-old Indiana girl to deathwith a brick then dismembered her, hiding her head, hands andfeet at a home where he was staying and dumping the rest of herremains nearby, police said Tuesday.

A trusted neighbor who watched Aliahna Lemmon confessed to killing her, police said Tuesday.
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Allen County sheriff's investigators said in an affidavit that 39-year-old Michael Plumadore admits he killed Aliahna Lemmon onThursday.

According to the affidavit, Plumadore told police that afterbeating Aliahna to death on the front steps of the home in theearly morning hours, he stuffed her body into trash bags and hidher in the freezer at the home in a rundown trailer park in FortWayne. He said he later chopped up her body with a hacksawand stuffed her remains into freezer bags.

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Police said Plumadore told them he had hidden Aliahna's head,feet and hands at the trailer and discarded her other remains at anearby business. Police obtained a warrant to search the traileron Monday and found the body parts.

Authorities didn't say Tuesday why Plumadore killed the child,but Sheriff Ken Fries said investigators suspected Plumadorewas involved since soon after she was reported missing Fridaynight.

Mike Plumadore, confessed to killing Aliahna Lemmon, police said Tuesday.

Allen County (Ind.) Sheriff's Department via AP

Investigators questioned him Friday and Saturday and he wasarrested Monday after being interviewed by detectives forseveral hours more.
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Fries said his long police career told him that Plumadore'saccount of the girl's disappearance had too manyinconsistencies.

"Things that were said in 29 years of doing this that just didn'tmake sense," Fries said during a Tuesday news conference. "Weneeded to get him to talk."

Fries said Plumadore was "factual" in talking with investigators,but he wouldn't describe Plumadore's demeanor.

A judge ordered Plumadore held without bail or bond at an initialhearing Tuesday, sheriff's department spokesman Cpl. JeremyTinkel said. He has yet to be formally charged in Aliahna's death.

Mike McAlexander, the Allen County chief deputy prosecutor,wouldn't say whether anyone else was suspected of beinginvolved and said "nothing has been ruled out."

Paulette Hair, 45, a former manager at the trailer park who livesat a nearby trailer park, said she never would have guessedPlumadore would kill a child.

"But you don't know a person, truly," she said.

"How could you live?" asked Hair. "How could you sit in thattrailer, knowing what you did, knowing what's in your householdwhen everybody is out there in the cold and the rain praying toGod that she comes home safely and you're sitting there?"

Aliahna was a student at Holland Elementary School, said FortWayne school district spokeswoman Krista Stockman. She didnot know what grade the girl was in.

"Obviously, this is a horrendous tragedy. For the school, this isdevastating. Our teachers knew her, our principal knew her, shehad friends at the school. This is going to be a loss for everyoneat the school," Stockman said.


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Schools are currently closed for holiday break. Stockmanexpected extra counselors will be made available when studentsreturn Jan. 5, and the school likely will plan some sort ofmemorial, she said.

Aliahna and her two younger sisters were staying withPlumadore for about one week because their mother, TarahSouders, had been sick with the flu.

Plumadore told The(Fort Wayne, Ind.)Journal Gazette onSunday that Aliahna disappeared from the home Friday morningwhile he was sleeping after having gone to a gas station about amile away to buy a cigar. Authorities have said the store'ssurveillance video shows him there about that time.

Aliahna wasn't reported missing until Friday night. Plumadoresaid the younger girls told him their mother had picked her upand he didn't realize until hours later that this wasn't true.

On Saturday, more than 100 emergency workers searched forAliahna around the trailer park on the city's north side whereAliahna and Plumadore lived. FBI agents were there Monday.

A state website shows that 15 registered sex offenders live in thepark that numbers about two dozen homes. Plumadore is not onIndiana's registered sex offenders list. He has a criminal recordin Florida and North Carolina that includes convictions fortrespassing and assault.

Aliahna's step-grandfather, David Story, told The AssociatedPress that Plumadore had cared for Souders' ailing father untilhis death from emphysema early this month and was living inthat man's mobile home.

"He was a trusted family friend," Story said late Monday, sayinghe was surprised by the arrest.

Richard Patee, 58, whose trailer is next to where Plumadore wasliving, said he didn't think it was odd that Aliahna's mother hadhim watching the girls for an extended period.
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"They had known each other for somewhere of three to fouryears, I know that, and he took care of their grandfather," Pateesaid. "I didn't see any reason to question it at all. I talked withMike on and off for the past two-and-a-half years and he neverhad a cross word."

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See: Verbatim: Coroners statement on girls death

Statement issued Tuesday by Dr. E. Jon Brandenberger, Allen County coroner:

On Monday, December 26, 2011, the Allen County Sheriffs Department and other law

enforcement agencies developed significant leads into the investigation of a missing 9-year-old Fort Wayne girl, Aliahna Marie Maroney- Lemmon. With reason to believe thata deceased child was nearby, the Allen County Coroners office and other forensicinvestigators responded to two separate locations, one of which was the Northwaymobile home park near North Clinton Street and Diebold Road, from where Alianha haddisappeared, and another at a nearby convenience store/gas station. Human remainsbelieved to be that of a female juvenile were found at both locations. Officials from theAllen County Coroners office and police crime scene technicians painstakinglydocumented the areas and recovered evidence. The remains were transported to theNortheast Indiana Forensic Center.

The major part of an autopsy was conducted today at the Northeast Indiana ForensicCenter, but the forensic examination will not be completed until sometime tomorrow.

Positive confirmation of the identity of the remains will be accomplished through DNAanalysis, but investigators are confident that the decedent is Aliahna.

Investigators believe that the perpetrator of this horrific crime systematicallydismembered Aliahna after her death, and then placed her body parts into severalplastic bags, some of which were recovered at his residence, while others wererecovered from a dumpster at the convenience store.

Results of the autopsy today are pending until the examination can be completedtomorrow. While the cause of death has not been ruled yet, the manner of death ishomicide. Aliahna is the 24th homicide victim in Fort Wayne and Allen County (thesecond outside the city limits of Fort Wayne) in 2011.

The investigation is continuing by the Allen County Prosecutors office, the Allen CountySheriffs Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Allen CountyCoroners office.
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Slain Ind. girl's grandfather was sexoffenderBy TOM COYNE, Associated Press

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) To assist her dying father, Tarah Soudersmade a choice: She moved her three young girls to a run-down trailerpark in rural Indiana to help take care of him as his lungs rotted fromemphysema.

She knew it could be dangerous. The park of about two dozen homeswas teeming with convicted sex offenders, with one living at nearly

every address. She worried about neighbors with sex offense recordswho had been helping her father get by, according to trailer parkresidents. And before she arrived, she even asked her father if herchildren could be at risk for abuse from two specific men includinga suspect now accused in her daughter's death.

"He said, 'No. They will not touch your children. They're doingeverything they're supposed to do,'" said Greg Shumaker, one of 15convicted sex offenders who live at the park and the other man that

Souders had inquired about.

Weeks later, police say, a horrific tragedy unfolded. Her 9-year-olddaughter, Aliahna Lemmon, was brutally killed. Police say 39-year-oldMichael Plumadore told investigators that he bludgeoned her to deathwith a brick, then dismembered her and hid her head, hands and feetat her grandfather's trailer before dumping the other remainselsewhere.

Shumaker said Aliahna's family moved there to help take care of 66-year-old James E. "Shorty" Lemmon, who also was a convicted sexoffender and died Dec. 3. He said Lemmon was "getting old" and "hadtrouble breathing."


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Shumaker said he introduced Plumadore to Lemmon shortly afterPlumadore moved into the trailer park, and Plumadore moved in withLemmon a few days later. Shumaker said he knew Lemmon becausethey were both sex offenders and were in jail together.

Sheriff's department spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel confirmed thatLemmon was a sex offender. Indiana Department of Correctionrecords show he was convicted of child molesting in March 2006.Paulette Hair, 45, a former manager at the trailer park who lives at anearby trailer park, said she also knew Lemmon was a sex offender.

"He stayed out of everybody's way," she said. "Shorty couldn't takecare of himself very well."

Shumaker said Plumadore briefly moved away, but returned whenSouders asked him to care for her father.

A man who answered the door at Souders' home Tuesday afternoonreferred all questions to the Allen County sheriff's department. Thehome was one of only a few at the trailer park located off anexpressway and across from an open field that displayed outwardsigns of children: A small bicycle, play car and cars seat sat on the

wooden porch connected to a long wooden ramp.

Aliahna and her two younger sisters were staying with Plumadore forabout one week because their mother had been sick with the flu.

Richard Patee, 58, whose trailer is next to where Plumadore wasliving, said he didn't think it was odd that Aliahna's mother had himwatching the girls for an extended period.

"They had known each other for somewhere of three to four years, Iknow that, and he took care of their grandfather," Patee said. "I didn'tsee any reason to question it at all."

Shumaker said it wasn't unusual for Plumadore to watch Souders'children "because the kids liked him." Souders and Aliahna were listedamong nearly 600 friends on a Facebook page listed under


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Plumadore's name that said he was "Self Employed and Loving It!",and enjoyed fantasy novels.

According to the affidavit, Plumadore told police that after beating

Aliahna to death on the front steps of the home in the early morninghours, he stuffed her body into trash bags and hid her in the freezer.He said he later cut up her body with a hacksaw and stuffed herremains into freezer bags.

Police said Plumadore told them he had hidden Aliahna's head, feetand hands at the trailer and discarded her other remains at a nearbybusiness. Police obtained a warrant to search the trailer on Mondayand found the body parts.

Authorities didn't say Tuesday why Plumadore killed the child, butSheriff Ken Fries said investigators suspected Plumadore wasinvolved since soon after she was reported missing Friday nightbecause of inconsistencies in his story that the girl had vanished whilehe went to a store that morning.

"Things that were said in 29 years of doing this that just didn't makesense," Fries said during a Tuesday news conference. "We needed to

get him to talk."

A judge ordered Plumadore held without bail or bond at an initialhearing Tuesday, Tinkel said. He has yet to be formally charged inAliahna's death.

Mike McAlexander, the Allen County chief deputy prosecutor, wouldn'tsay whether anyone else was suspected of being involved and said"nothing has been ruled out."

"How could you live?" asked Hair. "How could you sit in that trailer,knowing what you did, knowing what's in your household wheneverybody is out there in the cold and the rain praying to God that shecomes home safely and you're sitting there"


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A state website shows that 15 registered sex offenders live in the parkthat numbers about two dozen homes. Self-identified sex offendersliving at the trailer park said Tuesday that they were given maps by theIndiana Department of Corrections and a local mission showing them

where it was OK to live. The aerial maps show areas legally awayfrom schools and daycare centers and help guide offenders when theyare released from prison to new homes.

Plumadore is not on Indiana's registered sex offenders list. He has acriminal record in Florida and North Carolina that includes convictionsfor trespassing and assault, and an Indiana conviction for forgery.

Associated Press Writers Tom Davies and Charles Wilson contributed

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Cathie Rowand / The Journal GazetteA makeshift shrine with stuffed Teddy bears pays mute tribute atthe Northway mobile home park on Tuesday.

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Plumadore

Cathie Rowand / The Journal GazetteAllen County Sheriff Ken Fries, left, Allen County Coroner JonBrandenberger, center, and Allen County Chief DeputyProsecutor Michael McAlexander hold a press briefing onTuesday morning.


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Aliahna

FORT WAYNE -- Thirty-nine-year-old Michael Len

Plumadore appeared in court Tuesday morning ona preliminary charge of murder, accused of killing

9-year-old Aliahna Lemmon early Thursday.

According to court documents filed in the case,

Plumadore clubbed the little girl in the head with a

brick while she stood outside this trailer in early

morning hours Thursday.

Later that day, he cut her frozen body into pieces

with a hacksaw, disposing of them in the dumpster

of a nearby business.

He told Allen County detectives they could find her

head, hand and feet in his freezer, where they

were found Monday.

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Aliahna's horrific end: girl, 9,bludgeoned to death by babysitterDecember 28, 2011 - 11:01AM

Police: babysitter beat, dismembered girl

A babysitter and trusted neighbour in the US has confessed that he bludgeoned9-year-old Aliahna Lemmon to death with a brick then dismembered her.

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A babysitter and trusted neighbour has confessed that hebludgeoned a nine-year-old girl to death with a brick thendismembered her, hiding her head, hands and feet at a homewhere he was staying and dumping the rest of her remainsnearby, US police say.

Allen County sheriff's investigators in Indiana said in an affidavitthat Michael Plumadore, 39, admitted to killing Aliahna Lemmonlast week.

According to the affidavit, Plumadore told police that after beatingAliahna to death on the front steps of the home in the early hoursof the morning, he stuffed her body into rubbish bags and hid herin the freezer at the home in a rundown trailer park in Fort Wayne.

He said he later chopped up her body with a hacksaw and stuffedher remains into freezer bags.


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Killed ... Aliahna Lemmon. Photo: AP

Police said Plumadore told them he had hidden Aliahna's head,

feet and hands at the trailer and discarded her other remains at anearby business. Police obtained a warrant to search the traileron Monday and found the body parts.

Authorities did not say why Plumadore killed the child, but SheriffKen Fries said investigators suspected Plumadore was involvedsince soon after she was reported missing on Friday night.

Investigators questioned him on Friday and Saturday and he wasarrested on Monday after being interviewed by detectives forseveral hours more.


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Accused ... Michael Plumadore.

Fries said his long police career told him that Plumadore'saccount of the girl's disappearance had too many inconsistencies.


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"Things that were said in 29 years of doing this that just didn'tmake sense," Fries said during a Tuesday news conference. "Weneeded to get him to talk."

Fries said Plumadore was "factual" in talking with investigators,but he wouldn't describe Plumadore's demeanour.

Grief ... Tarah Souders, right, and her mother Amber Story. Photo: AP

A judge ordered Plumadore to be held without bail or bond at aninitial hearing on Tuesday, sheriff's department spokesmanCorporal Jeremy Tinkel said. He has yet to be formally charged in

Aliahna's death.

Mike McAlexander, the Allen County chief deputy prosecutor,wouldn't say whether anyone else was suspected of beinginvolved and said "nothing has been ruled out".


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Paulette Hair, 45, a former manager at the trailer park who lives ata nearby trailer park, said she never would have guessedPlumadore would kill a child.

Elyssabeth Fuller, 12, was one of over 40 people who returned after a candlelightvigil to form a search party forAliahna Lemmon. Photo: AP

"But you don't know a person, truly," she said.

"How could you live?" asked Hair. "How could you sit in thattrailer, knowing what you did, knowing what's in your household

when everybody is out there in the cold and the rain praying toGod that she comes home safely and you're sitting there?"

Aliahna was a student at Holland Elementary School, Fort Wayneschool district spokeswoman Krista Stockman said. She did notknow what grade the girl was in.


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"Obviously, this is a horrendous tragedy. For the school, this isdevastating. Our teachers knew her, our principal knew her, shehad friends at the school. This is going to be a loss for everyoneat the school," Stockman said.

Schools are currently closed for holiday break. Stockmanexpected extra counsellors will be made available when studentsreturn on January 5, and the school will likely plan some sort ofmemorial, she said.

Aliahna and her two younger sisters were staying with Plumadorefor about one week because their mother, Tarah Souders, hadbeen sick with the flu.

Plumadore told The Journal Gazette on Sunday that Aliahnadisappeared from the home on Friday morning while he wassleeping after having gone to a service station about 1.6kilometres away to buy a cigar. Authorities have said the store'ssurveillance video shows him there about that time.

Aliahna wasn't reported missing until Friday night. Plumadore saidthe younger girls told him their mother had picked her up and he

didn't realise until hours later that this wasn't true.

On Saturday, more than 100 emergency workers searched forAliahna around the trailer park on the city's north side whereAliahna and Plumadore lived. FBI agents were there on Monday.

A state website shows that 15 registered sex offenders live in thepark that numbers about two dozen homes. Plumadore is not onIndiana's registered sex offenders list. He has a criminal record in

Florida and North Carolina that includes convictions fortrespassing and assault.

Aliahna's step-grandfather, David Story, said that Plumadore hadcared for Souders's ailing father until his death from emphysemaearly this month and was living in that man's mobile home.


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"He was a trusted family friend," Story said late on Monday,saying he was surprised by the arrest.

Richard Patee, 58, whose trailer is next to where Plumadore was

living, said he didn't think it was odd that Aliahna's mother hadhim watching the girls for an extended period.

"They had known each other for somewhere of three to fouryears, I know that, and he took care of their grandfather," Pateesaid. "I didn't see any reason to question it at all. I talked withMike on and off for the past two-and-a-half years and he neverhad a cross word."

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