Landon told the DA that she buried her phone near a tree in the neighborhood after placing it in a trash bag.
After the phone was recovered, the Sheriff’s Office “later discovered that just before she killed Bella,
Landon recorded the child in her bedroom sobbing and repeatedly saying, ‘I want my grandma,’ through her tears.”
According to the release, “In turn, Landon placed a bath towel at the bottom of Bella’s bedroom door to dampen the sound of her cries.”
The phone also allegedly revealed that she “repeatedly” looked for a criminal defense lawyer while sending texts to Bella’s father,
saying they were “tucked in their beds and that the tooth fairy had visited Bella’s older sister.”
