WOULD SOMEONE STOMP THE LIFE OUT OF THIS P.O.S.

[Danno 1,228]

BABYSITTER TELLS COPS HE BEAT INDIANA GIRL WITH BRICK, DISMEMBERED HER WITH HACKSAW

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

Allen County sheriff’s investigators said in an affidavit that 39-year-old Michael Plumadore admits he killed Aliahna Lemmon on Thursday.

According to the affidavit, Plumadore told police that after beating Aliahna to death on the front steps of the home in the early morning hours, he stuffed her body into trash bags and hid her in 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 stuffed her remains into freezer bags.

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

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

Investigators questioned him Friday and Saturday and he was arrested Monday after being interviewed by detectives for several hours more.

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

“Things that were said in 29 years of doing this that just didn’t make sense,” Fries said during a Tuesday news conference. “We needed 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 initial hearing Tuesday, sheriff’s department spokesman Cpl. 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 being involved and said “nothing has been ruled out.”

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

Plumadore told The Journal Gazette on Sunday that Aliahna disappeared from the home Friday morning while he was sleeping after having gone to a gas station about a mile away to buy a cigar. Authorities have said the store’s surveillance video shows him there about that time.

Aliahna wasn’t reported missing until Friday night. Plumadore said the younger girls told him their mother had picked her up and he didn‘t realize until hours later that this wasn’t true.

On Saturday, more than 100 emergency workers searched for Aliahna around the trailer park on the city’s north side where Aliahna and Plumadore lived. FBI agents were there Monday.

A state website shows that 15 registered sex offenders live in the park that numbers about two dozen homes. Plumadore is not on Indiana’s registered sex offenders list. He has a criminal record in Florida and North Carolina that includes convictions for trespassing and assault.

Aliahna’s step-grandfather, David Story, told The Associated Press that Plumadore had cared for Souders‘ ailing father until his death from emphysema early this month and was living in that man’s mobile home.

“He was a trusted family friend,” Story said late 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 had him watching the girls for an extended period.

“They had known each other for somewhere of three to four years, I know that, and he took care of their grandfather,” Patee said. “I didn’t see any reason to question it at all. I talked with Mike on and off for the past two-and-a-half years and he never had a cross word.”

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[Robby999 1,024]

I hope the child's family had more pictures than that one! That picture looks like it was taken at a funeral home!

[Susita 175]

He has a criminal record in Florida and North Carolina that includes convictions for trespassing and assault.

Plumadore told The Journal Gazette on Sunday that Aliahna disappeared from the home Friday morning while he was sleeping after having gone to a gas station about a mile away to buy a cigar.

Sounds like a great choice of babysitter. This guy deserves the worse punishment they could dish him out, but the mother should also be questioned as to why she's letting her children stay for a week at a middle-aged man's house that she's only known a few years, and who has a criminal record and leaves children alone while he goes to the store to buy cigars.

I've had the flu before, but no matter how sick I was I wouldn't send my kids away for a week to some dude's trailer.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I am not reading this

[Danno 1,228]

Sounds like a great choice of babysitter. This guy deserves the worse punishment they could dish him out, but the mother should also be questioned as to why she's letting her children stay for a week at a middle-aged man's house that she's only known a few years, and who has a criminal record and leaves children alone while he goes to the store to buy cigars.

I've had the flu before, but no matter how sick I was I wouldn't send my kids away for a week to some dude's trailer.

I agree with your point about putting your daughters in the care of a man who probably seemed like a nice guy... but you never know, he could have molested the kid, in fact woth no motive yet determined I expect the autopsy to reach this finding, who bashes in a child's skull with no motive?

another disturbing point to note, in a trailer park of 24 homes, there were 15 registered sex offenders. (and he wasn't one)

[Ban Hammer 13,508]

gen pop will take care of him.

[dalegg 143]

Someone will be along shortly to tell you how you are equally as savage for wishing death upon this poor misunderstood human being.

[Danno 1,228]

Someone will be along shortly to tell you how you are equally as savage for wishing death upon this poor misunderstood human being.

No doubt about it, somehow they miss the critical factor of guilt..... Innocent people don't deserve to suffer, the guilty do.. wha-lah

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Someone will be along shortly to tell you how you are equally as savage for wishing death upon this poor misunderstood human being.

A few here did it for bin Laden, so nothing would surprise me.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

What kind mother leaves her kids with a friend for a week while nursing the flu? She should be charged with willful neglect. Wheres the father? It's the friggin holidays! What a crazy, fvcked world. May she rest in peace. Poor girl.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

What kind mother leaves her kids with a friend for a week while nursing the flu? She should be charged with willful neglect. Wheres the father? It's the friggin holidays! What a crazy, fvcked world. May she rest in peace. Poor girl.

Well said.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hopefully when he gets put in jail some socially conscious cell mate will do that for us.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

What kind mother leaves her kids with a friend for a week while nursing the flu? She should be charged with willful neglect. Wheres the father? It's the friggin holidays! What a crazy, fvcked world. May she rest in peace. Poor girl.

Yes, poor girl. The father was replaced by welfare, WIC, section 8 and SSI Direct deposit makes it possible for the mother to just vanish and still get her benefits.

What a crazy world indeed when parents feel no need to be responsible for their children. This is just sick. I want to vomit.

Edited December 28, 2011 by Gary and Alla

[one...two...tree 2,762]

So it was welfare that cause d men to be deadbeat dads? That's amazing.

[Danno 1,228]

So it was welfare that cause d men to be deadbeat dads? That's amazing.

It didn't "cause them" it simply greased the skids.