A court in Washington revealed in the court document that a South Dakota girl was found dead in a U-Haul, said the cops. The couple alleged the 8-year-old was zip-tied and beaten to death, they were driving for a few weeks but got caught eventually, reported True Crime Daily.
South Dakota Girl Discovered Dead in a U-Haul
Details say that Mandie Miller and Aleksandr Kurmoyarov got nabbed in Mitchell, South Dakota, when they got stopped. In the trailer was the rotting corpse of the woman's daughter. Later the coroner was reached to deal with the remains, cited Boston25.
Police state that Kurmoyarov said the 8-year-old girl died before Halloween 2022 in the locale of Airway Heights, Washington. Miller said differently that her daughter's death was on September 10.
Mitchell Police were very critical about why the couple kept the death of the girl from authorities as they lived. Even their answer of wanting to spend more time with her opens up considerations that foul play is involved and is not convincing, mentioned Local Today.
Not reporting the child's death is the first instance of the charge. But last December 15, the Spokane police out a warrant for homicide by abuse.
Several details noted by the court were Miller and Kurmoyarov trying to get rid of Meela Miller by burying her in the Rosebud Indian Reservation. The lack of a death certificate prevented the burial. A funeral employee called the Mitchell PD called the Airway Heights Police in Washington, where they came from, Spokane County.
Couple Arrested for Death of 8-Year-Old Girl
Last December 15, a search warrant allowed the Airway Heights Police to open the house of Miller and Kurmoyarov. Their attention was called to Meela's room, and they noticed the presence of odor absorbers inside it.
Daniel Herrera, one of the detectives on the case, said Miller called earlier and thinks he's the dad. She called him on November 16 to tell him his daughter had died. Miller said that Meela felt chest pains and went to the doctor but got sent home. The affidavit said the mom bathed the child after getting home, but then she vomited pink and passed out. She claimed that the girl choked on the liquid strawberry milkshake.
At one point, she claimed that she called 911, which took an hour to get there, and tried CPR to resuscitate her, but the girl died.
Herrera said that Miller was ill-tempered but would never abuse the deceased. Meela, according to the doctor doing the autopsy, was dead for three weeks, not three months, but stressed the slow decomposition could make it three months.
Based on the documents, Meela was only 26 pounds, with marks on her hands and wrists, which showed being tied up.
Kumoyarov allegedly tells SD police how he slapped her twice the night she died. It got worse as Mandie cruelly crushed her feet with a hammer while acting out. The man said he tied the girl up and used the zips to keep her in the car seat for six to four hours when she died.
Miller was caught lying several times about her daughter's death. Both are charged with abuse, criminal mistreatment, and unlawful imprisonment in the Spokane jail for the death of an 8-year-old South Dakota girl who was discovered in a U-Haul, zip-tied, and beaten to death by the couple.
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