Overview

• Bunnak 'Hannah' Landon was sentenced on May 6, 2025, to life in prison without parole, with an additional 80 years for obstruction of justice.
• Landon was found guilty of strangling and bludgeoning six-year-old Bella Fontenelle in April 2023 before placing her body in a bucket and leaving it on Bella’s mother’s lawn.
• Prosecutors presented video evidence from Landon’s phone showing Bella crying for her grandmother shortly before the murder, as well as forensic findings linking her to the crime.
• Landon’s insanity defense, citing PTSD from her childhood in a Khmer Rouge death camp, was rejected after expert testimony indicated she understood her actions.
• The case has drawn attention to issues of child safety, mental health defenses, and the criminal justice system’s handling of domestic violence tragedies.