In the months leading up to her murder, prosecutors say 6-year-old Bella Fontenelle would tell anyone who would listen that her father’s girlfriend, Bunnak “Hannah” Landon was “mean.”
Bella suffered from anxiety and hysterical crying fits when faced with spending time at her father’s Harahan home. But Bella never complained of any physical abuse at Landon’s hands, despite repeated talks with teachers, therapists and family, according to Jefferson Parish Assistant District Attorney Rachel Africk.
But there’s no doubt, authorities allege, that it was Landon, 45, who beat and strangled the kindergartener before stuffing her tiny body into a 100-pound pool chlorine bucket that she left on the front lawn of Bella’s biological mother…