SPENCER, Ind.
(AP) — An Indiana man drank whiskey with the uncle of a 1-year-old girl
and then waited until the family fell asleep before abducting, raping and
killing the toddler, prosecutors said Monday in court documents.
Kyle Parker faces
murder, rape, kidnapping and other charges in the death of Shaylyn
Ammerman, whose body was found Thursday night following two days of
intensive searching. A state police detective says in Owen County court
documents that Parker, 22, of Spencer, directed investigators to the
remote, wooded location.
A judge ordered
that Parker remain jailed without bond and entered a not guilty plea for
him during a Monday afternoon hearing. Parker appeared via video link from
the county jail for the hearing.
The judge
appointed attorney Jacob Fish as Parker's public defender. Fish didn't
immediately return a telephone message left at his law office seeking
comment.
State police
spokesman Sgt. Curt Durnil said the investigation wasn't finished despite
the charges against Parker. He said detectives could take several days or
weeks to complete their work, but that more arrests weren't expected
Monday.
Shaylyn's father
and grandmother, Justin Ammerman and Tamera Morgan, were the last people
known to have seen her late Tuesday. She had been staying at her father's
home under a joint custody arrangement with the girl's mother; her
grandmother and uncle also lived there.
Parker was
drinking whiskey Tuesday night with Shaylyn's uncle at the father's home
and abducted her in the early hours of Wednesday after other family
members had fallen asleep, court documents said.
Parker denied
involvement in Shaylyn's disappearance when first questioned on Wednesday,
but directed police to where her body was found near the White River
outside of Gosport, about 40 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
An autopsy found
Shaylyn suffered severe sexual trauma while she was alive and died from
asphyxiation. Investigators reporting finding the girl's body next to a
tree and a burn pile nearby believed to contain her clothes and other
evidence.
Parker's
stepfather told detectives that Parker said Sunday night from jail that he
acted alone in killing Shaylyn and used bleach to try and destroy DNA
evidence, the police affidavit said.
"Kyle kept saying
the night was a haze and his memory was foggy on what happened," the
affidavit quoted Parker's stepfather as saying.