ALIAHNA LEMMON - 9 yo - Fort Wayne IN

Sheriff: Missing girl found dead Monday evening, suspect charged with murder
Updated: Monday, 26 Dec 2011, 11:13 PM EST
Published : Monday, 26 Dec 2011, 9:08 PM EST

Mark Mellinger
Rod Hissong
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The Allen County Sheriff’s Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have released information on missing 9-year-old Aliahna Lemmon.

Investigators revealed in a Monday evening press conference that the body of Lemmon was discovered after police interviewed the man she was staying with for the past week.

Police have arrested Michael Plumadore, 39, Fort Wayne, and charged him with murder. He’s due to be arraigned in court Tuesday morning. Plumadore was a friend of the family, according to police.

Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries said, “Unfortunately tonight, the search came to a conclusion we’d hoped wouldn’t happen. After three different interviews with one of the individuals involved, he was taken into custody tonight about 9 p.m. and charged with murder.”

More: http://www.wane.com/dpp/mobile/police-call-newser-on-missing-girl

Missing Girl Found Dead; One Charged With Murder
By Peter Ambrose

December 26, 2011
Updated Dec 26, 2011 at 10:56 PM EST
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - The search for a missing Allen County girl comes to a tragic end....

More including video:

http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/Missing-Girl-Found-Dead-One-Charged-With-Murder-136243618.html

Oh, Imflo, I was hoping you wouldn't find the confirmation even as I was reading your links. Here is one I went to from one of yours. It says the grandfather was a convicted child molester also and was charged, I believe, in 2006. Has photo also. You'd think Aliahna's mother would not have trusted a guy who lived with a the child molesting grandfather for two years, if all of this is true. So very sad.

http://www.angrywhiteboy.org/index.php/2011/12/26/the-case-of-missing-aliahna-lemmon/

ladibug wrote:Oh, Imflo, I was hoping you wouldn't find the confirmation even as I was reading your links. Here is one I went to from one of yours. It says the grandfather was a convicted child molester also and was charged, I believe, in 2006. Has photo also. You'd think Aliahna's mother would not have trusted a guy who lived with a the child molesting grandfather for two years, if all of this is true. So very sad.

http://www.angrywhiteboy.org/index.php/2011/12/26/the-case-of-missing-aliahna-lemmon/

There is some sort of tape around the trailer and a dumpster. LE said that she was found well-within the 1 mile radius that such circumstances usually develop. Sick bastard! She didn't even get the happiness of Christmas! This murdering man is a devil and had better hope that God has more compassion on him than I do right now.

children are a gift-how can anyone do this to a child? how can we get their attention and make them stop doing this to these precious beings? the answer is out there somewhere. children are not to be abused and thrown away like trash. they are our lifeline. these stories hurt me to my core.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/babysitter-facing-murder-charge-in-9-year-old-indiana-girls-death-was-trusted-family-friend/2011/12/27/gIQAi569JP_story.html

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The neighbor who was babysitting a 9-year-old Indiana girl when she went missing last week will be formally charged with murder Tuesday, a heartbreaking turn for the girl’s relatives who considered him a family friend.

Authorities said Monday night that Aliahna Lemmon had been found dead and Mike Plumadore, who was watching Aliahna and her two sisters when she went missing Friday, was being held on a murder charge. He and Aliahna’s family lived in the same mobile home park in Fort Wayne.

“He was a trusted family friend,” Aliahna’s step-grandfather, David Story, told The Associated Press late Monday, saying he was surprised by the arrest.

Plumadore, 39, is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning.

He was arrested after being interviewed by police, Allen County sheriff’s spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel said. Investigators said Aliahna’s body was found in the northeastern Indiana county, but no details were released.

On Monday, FBI agents descended on the rundown mobile home park where Aliahna lived and was last seen. It’s a known haven for registered sex offenders, though 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.

No active search was done Sunday for Aliahna, though more than 100 emergency workers searched for her Saturday around the mobile home park. Tinkel said the same size search could not be sustained because of the Christmas holiday.

Aliahna’s mother, Tarah Souders, told The Journal Gazette on Sunday that her daughter had vision, hearing and emotional problems and suffered from attention deficit disorder. Aliahna and her sisters were staying with Plumadore because their mother had been sick with the flu and Aliahna’s stepfather works at night and sleeps during the day.

Plumadore told the newspaper Sunday that he left the three girls in his mobile home about 6 a.m. Friday and went 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.

“I had dead-bolted the door,” he said. “When I got back, all the girls was here.”

He said he smoked his cigar and went back to sleep, then woke up about 10 a.m. when Aliahna’s mother called. After that call, he realized the door to the home was unlocked and that Aliahna was gone. He said Aliahna’s 6-year-old sisters told him Aliahna had left with her mother.

Plumadore said it wasn’t until he talked with Aliahna’s mother about 8:30 p.m. that they realized she was missing and police were notified. Souders said the miscommunication caused the delay in determining that Aliahna had vanished.

“She’s never wandered off,” she said Sunday.

Elizabeth Watkins, who lives nearby, said residents are cautious and keep to themselves in part because of the number of sex offenders living in the mobile home park. According to a state website, 15 registered sex offenders live in the park that numbers about two dozen homes. Watkins and she didn’t know Plumadore and was shocked when told of the girl’s death.

“I’m numb, I’m totally numb. I don’t know what to think,” she said.

A missing 9-year-old Indiana girl has
been found dead, and the family friend who was watching her before she
disappeared was charged Monday night with murder, authorities said.

Allen County sheriff's spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel said
investigators found the body of Aliahna Lemmon in the county, but he
wouldn't say where. He also said 39-year-old Mike Plumadore was
"interviewed by police and taken into custody at 9 p.m. and charged with
murder."

Plumadore, who had been watching Aliahna and her sisters before she
was reported missing late Friday, is scheduled to appear in court
Tuesday.(See more on the Casey Anthony case.)

Earlier Monday, FBI agents descended on the rundown mobile home park
in Fort Wayne where Aliahna lived. It's a known haven for registered sex
offenders, though Plumadore isn't on Indiana's registered sex offenders
list. He has a criminal record in Florida and North Carolina that
includes convictions for trespassing and assault.

More than 100 emergency workers searched Saturday for Aliahna around
the mobile home park, where she was last seen. No active search was done
Sunday for the girl, but search dogs and FBI agents were at the park
and the girl's home on Monday.

According to a state website, 15 registered sex offenders live at the mobile home park that numbers about two dozen homes.

Aliahna's mother, Tarah Souders, 28, told The Journal Gazette earlier
Monday that her daughter had vision and hearing problems and suffered
from attention deficit disorder and emotional problems. Aliahna and her
sisters were staying at a family friend's nearby home because their
mother had been sick with the flu and Aliahna's stepfather works at
night and sleeps during the day.

Plumadore told the newspaper Sunday that he left the three girls in
his mobile home about 6 a.m. Friday and went 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.(See more on a new child abuse law in the U.S.)

"I had dead-bolted the door," he said. "When I got back, all the girls was here."

He said he smoked his cigar and went back to sleep, then woke up
about 10 a.m. when Aliahna's mother called. After that call, he realized
the door to the home was unlocked and that Aliahna was gone. He said
Aliahna's 6-year-old sisters told him Aliahna had left with her mom.

Plumadore said it wasn't until he talked with Aliahna's mom about
8:30 p.m. that they realized she was missing and police were notified.

Tarah Souders said miscommunication between the two of them caused the delay in determining that Aliahna had vanished.

"She's never wandered off," Souders said. "She's never done anything like this before."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2103134,00.html#ixzz1hkH4ixoX

posters note...this article contains graphic details.
Police: Babysitter beat, dismembered Indiana girl
TOM LOBIANCO, Associated Press
Updated 10:14 a.m., Tuesday, December 27, 2011

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 his home 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 Dec. 22.

According to the affidavit, Plumadore told police that after beating Aliahna to death, he stuffed her body into trash bags and hid her in the freezer at his trailer. He said he later chopped up her body and stuffed her remains into freezer bags.

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

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.

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

Plumadore told The Journal Gazette on Sunday that Aliahna disappeared from his 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.

More than 100 emergency workers searched for her Saturday around the rundown mobile home park where Aliahna and Plumadore lived and 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.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Missing-Ind-girl-found-dead-babysitter-charged-2425890.php

Aren't there on call judges who can issue warrants on the weekends and holidays? Why did this take until Monday to get a warrant?

What about the other girls? What did they see and why were they saying Aliahna was with their mother? Where are they right now? What did this evil demon do to them?

I'll wait for more info before deciding about the mother and give her the benefit of the doubt, but would she really expect a close family friend to bludgeon and dismember and separate her daughter into freezer bags? This must be unbearable for her (again, the benefit of the doubt).

And, God help LE and FBI involved in this developing horror on the Christmas holiday!

he probably did all of this on thursday when the other girls were asleep in the bedroom and Aliahna was supposedly asleep on the couch. he needed an excuse to leave the house to dispose of the remains and thats where the cigar story came in. this is just eating me alive. please Lord be with this family. and please Lord let our justice system work for this poor little girl.

Warning: Extremely Graphic

Affadavit for Probable Cause

http://www.angrywhiteboy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/MichaelPlumadoreProbableCause.pdf

This is a tragic outcome, but exactly what I expected. In the interest of trying to look at what contributed to this child's brutal murder, so hopefully lessons can be learned, I want to discuss the circumstances of this childs life. Nobody expects that anyone would murder a child, but there are circumstances that play a big part. Rather than call the murderer evil or a devil, we can look at what happened, realise it is just a human being who did this, and try to make sure we learn so it won't happen to another innocent child.
The number 1 obvious factor is that she was not being cared for by her mother. This places children at risk. The 2nd factor is that it was a man who was left to care for the 3 children. The 3rd factor is that Aliahna posed a great deal of challenges for any caregiver with her physical impairments and psychological issues.
So, why wasn't the mother caring for her children? Apparently she had the flu, but I suspect the main reason was because the stepfather didn't want the kids around because he needed a quiet house to sleep in during the day. It comes down to choices. Aliahna's mother and stepfather should have arranged their lives to accommodate the children, rather than choose the solution of expecting others to care for them for weeks on end.
Mothers need to be made aware that a person unrelated to a child, will not have the same patience with someone else's children. Everyone also needs to be made aware of how difficult it is to care for a special needs child. I'm not saying all this to just criticize Aliahna's family. I only sincerely want to try to highlight re-occurring issues that all too often lead to a child being abused or killed. This guy wasn't evil. He was a friend who was doing Aliahna's family a MASSIVE favour. It was too much for him, he lost the plot and another innocent child died.

I find it strange that the picture posted seems to be what she was last seen in or am I wrong about that?

kiwimom wrote:This is a tragic outcome, but exactly what I expected. In the interest of trying to look at what contributed to this child's brutal murder, so hopefully lessons can be learned, I want to discuss the circumstances of this childs life. Nobody expects that anyone would murder a child, but there are circumstances that play a big part. Rather than call the murderer evil or a devil, we can look at what happened, realise it is just a human being who did this, and try to make sure we learn so it won't happen to another innocent child.
The number 1 obvious factor is that she was not being cared for by her mother. This places children at risk. The 2nd factor is that it was a man who was left to care for the 3 children. The 3rd factor is that Aliahna posed a great deal of challenges for any caregiver with her physical impairments and psychological issues.
So, why wasn't the mother caring for her children? Apparently she had the flu, but I suspect the main reason was because the stepfather didn't want the kids around because he needed a quiet house to sleep in during the day. It comes down to choices. Aliahna's mother and stepfather should have arranged their lives to accommodate the children, rather than choose the solution of expecting others to care for them for weeks on end.
Mothers need to be made aware that a person unrelated to a child, will not have the same patience with someone else's children. Everyone also needs to be made aware of how difficult it is to care for a special needs child. I'm not saying all this to just criticize Aliahna's family. I only sincerely want to try to highlight re-occurring issues that all too often lead to a child being abused or killed. This guy wasn't evil. He was a friend who was doing Aliahna's family a MASSIVE favour. It was too much for him, he lost the plot and another innocent child died.

I guess you are commenting on my posts, dear Kiwi. I was following this last night as it developed. I know that people aren't throw-aways, I just can't wrap my head around him sawing her up and saving her head, hands, and feet in the freezer just feet away from where he was located without thinking to myself that his actions are atrocious and detestable. I am very worried what the other sisters were exposed to and possibly threatened with....

Experience wiih these cases in the past would indicate that this butcher was just beginning his trail of terror, It'snot unusual for serial killers to keep trophies of their victims. Either he has done similar acts before or he was, luckily, discovered after his first kill.

I heard today ( I will look for a verifying MSM report ) that this cretin was already in trouble for a chid related crime in another state. These sociopaths should be monitored more closely.