‘She was an impediment’: Woman killed boyfriend’s 6-year-old, stuffed remains ‘inside a large plastic bucket,’ used wagon to drop off body in biological mother’s front yard

A 45-year-old pistillate successful Louisiana volition walk the remainder of her beingness down bars for sidesplitting her boyfriend’s 6-year-old daughter, stuffing the child’s remains into a large integrative bucket, past utilizing a wagon to transport the bucket to the victim’s mother’s location wherever she near it connected the beforehand lawn. A Jefferson Parish assemblage connected Thursday recovered Bunnak “Hannah” Landon blameworthy connected 1 number of first-degree execution successful the slaying of young Bella Fontenelle.

Jurors besides convicted Landon connected 2 counts of obstruction of justness for moving Bella’s assemblage and disposing of her cellphone aft the crime. Under authorities law, Landon volition look a mandatory condemnation of beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole.

The verdict came aft the Louisiana Supreme Court successful February voted 6-1 to uphold a lower-court ruling declaring Landon acceptable to basal trial for beating and strangling the small miss to death.

Despite the ruling, Landon’s defence attorneys continued to asseverate that she was mentally sick and unaware of her actions during the murder, The New Orleans Advocate reported. Her defence attorney, Cesar Vazquez, conceded that surveillance footage showed Landon wheeling Bella’s assemblage to her mother’s location connected the nighttime of the murder, telling jurors it was “about arsenic insane arsenic things get.”

But prosecutors pushed backmost connected that notion, reportedly emphasizing the “calculated decisions” progressive successful the execution and noting that it took spot 1 time aft Bella reportedly told her begetter and a counsellor that she was acrophobic of Landon, who was ever “mean” to her.

“This isn’t a pistillate who is truthful extracurricular of her faculties. This is simply a pistillate who is pissed disconnected and evil,” Jefferson Parish Assistant District Attorney Rachel Africk reportedly argued successful court. “The database of reasons we cognize that Hannah Landon knew what she was doing was incorrect is lengthy. It’s ridiculously lengthy. These were calculated decisions made by an incomprehensibly evil woman.”

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Prosecutors besides posited that Landon hated Bella due to the fact that of the attraction the kid garnered from her father.

“She was an impediment. She gets escaped of Bella due to the fact that she is an impediment, not a human,” prosecutors reportedly said successful closing arguments.

In summation to burying her phone, Landon besides reportedly Googled accusation astir transgression defence attorneys, sent farewell substance messages to household and friends, and told a person that she was “at peace” with her decision. Even aft the murder, prosecutors said she continued texting with her fellow astir the child’s docket and meals.

“Bella is dormant and Hannah is texting Michael similar thing is wrong,” Assistant District Attorney Lindsay Truhe told jurors. “Are these the texts of idiosyncratic who’s crazy, who doesn’t cognize close from wrong?”

The assemblage reportedly deliberated for little than an hr earlier reaching a verdict.

As previously reported by Law&Crime, Bella’s father, successful April 2023, awoke to find his girl and woman were some missing from his location successful Harahan, astir 10 miles westbound of New Orleans.

The begetter arrived astatine the Harahan Police Station astatine astir 7:30 a.m. and reported the 2 missing. Approximately 15 minutes later, officers arrived astatine the family’s location connected Donelon Drive and began investigating the whereabouts of the missing pistillate and child.

At astir 8:20 a.m., the probe moved to the location of Bella’s biologic parent connected Sedgefield Drive, which is lone astir the country and little than 2 blocks distant from Bella’s father’s residence.

“At the Sedgefield location, officers discovered the victim’s remains wrong a ample integrative bucket successful the beforehand yard,” constabulary said successful a quality merchandise astatine the time. “The unfortunate was pronounced dormant connected the scene.”

Police past contacted the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office and the agency’s Major Crimes Task Force assumed work for the probe into Bella’s death, Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said aft Landon’s arrest. Authorities aboriginal determined that Bella was beaten and strangled to death.

JPSO investigators accidental they rapidly honed successful connected Landon, who the sheriff’s bureau described arsenic an Asian pistillate who besides goes by the names “Bunnak Lim” and “Bunnak Landon,” arsenic the superior fishy successful the case.

While attempting to find Landon, the sheriff’s bureau obtained Ring doorbell surveillance footage from neighbors successful the country that showed Landon precocious the erstwhile nighttime “pulling a wagon containing a bucket down some Donelon and Sedgefield Drives.” Landon was traveling toward the location of Bella’s biologic mother.

The chilling video showed Landon astatine 9:33 p.m. casually walking down the thoroughfare with the wagon and bucket successful tow, making nary attempts to fell the dormant child, adjacent erstwhile a achromatic minivan drives close past her.

“We judge Bella was killed astatine the father’s location and past transported implicit to the mother’s location and past taken retired of a wagon,” Lopinto said

Following an probe and “extensive” interviews with Bella’s biologic parent and father, authorities said that they bash not judge either genitor had a manus successful their daughter’s death.

As the hunt for Landon continued, detectives astatine astir 2 p.m. were notified that Landon had been admitted to a section hospital. Authorities said that Landon walked into the Harahan Police Department sometime aft midnight and “was yet transported to the infirmary for evaluation.”

After being discharged, Landon was booked into the Jefferson Parish Jail.

Landon is presently scheduled to look successful tribunal again for her sentencing proceeding connected May 7, 2025.