JEFFERSON PARISH, La. (WVUE) – Attorneys in the Bunnak Landon case will receive a report Monday that could determine whether she is competent to stand trial for the alleged first-degree murder of 6-year-old Bella Fontenelle.
Landon, 45, has been indicted on charges of first-degree murder and obstruction of justice. She is accused of beating and strangling Fontenelle, the daughter of her then-boyfriend, and leaving the child’s body stuffed in a plastic bucket on the front lawn of her biological mother’s house in Harahan on April 25, 2023.
Landon appeared in court Wednesday (April 9), where Judge Nancy Miller denied two motions from the defense: one to delay the trial, and another to exclude the findings of a state-appointed doctor tasked with evaluating her mental competency…