An LE officer told the guy that he was sure he had done it but that he probably hadn't buried her deep enough and the animals would get to her. The dad didn't know that LE had placed a tracking device on his car, so he went to a new site & dug a deeper grave and went back and moved her.
He was convicted. Motive? His little girl and new girlfriend didn't get along, so something had to give.
That sounds eeriely like Barb Easton and DVD.
She lived with the father, and the New Girlfriend said "if not for his daughter" they might be able to have a life together, because the girl didn't like her.
The LE zerod in on the Father when he DESCRIBED, in vivid detail, the PJ's the daughter wore to bed. "ONLY THE KILLER" could have decribed what she wore to bed, they thought. It was the law of averages they were guessing at.
So he dumped her body in an area (like Danielles body was), covered lightly with twigs and leaves.
Yes, they put a "tracking device" on the man's car, and followed him directly to the site..(I can't remember how many weeks passed) where he had a shovel in his hand, getting ready to bury her.
The "girlfriend" was horrified, that he would have killed his OWN daughter, just so they could be together. He tried calling her from Jail, and she wouldn't answer her phone... and changed her phone number.
And to think...there are still people on these threads who swear FATHERS wouldn't kill their daughters.
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