Babysitter formally charged in murder of Aliahna Lemmon of Indiana

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The man accused of killing and dismembering Aliahna Lemmon of Fort Wayne, Indiana has been formally charged with murder.

Formal charges against Michael L. Plumadore, 39, will be read Friday, CNN reported.

Plumadore is being held without bond after being arrested Monday night when the girl's body was found, dismembered with a hacksaw, the head, hands and feet stored separately.

(GlobalPost reports: Aliahna Lemmon's babysitter kept Indiana girl's head, hands in freezer over Christmas)

Plumadore reportedly a trusted neighbor of the Lemmon family at the Northway Mobile Park, was watching Aliahna and her two sisters when she went missing last week

He was arrested Monday after police obtained a warrant to search his trailer and found the body parts, Agence France-Presse reported.

He confessing to killing Aliahna, cutting her up with a hacksaw and disposing most of her body in a nearby dumpster, which he directed police to in their search.

"Some of the story we heard from the beginning with him led us to believe he was the key to this case that … he was the one who was going to have the answers we were looking for," Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries said Tuesday night, CNN reported. 

"He was the one who saw her last. He was the one who had the most contact with her."

Meanwhile, officials said Wednesday that Plumadore was wanted in Florida for violating probation in 2000.

According to the LA Times:

Florida Department of Corrections records show Plumadore was charged in May 2000 with battery on a law enforcement officer, firefighter or EMS worker in Miami-Dade County, and was later sentenced to a year of community supervision.
 

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