Sara Lynn Krueger, 23, and Ryan Scott Warner, 26 will plead not guilty in the death and child abuse case of Sara’s three-year old daughter, Kayleigh Slusher.
Authorities found Slusher’s body in her mother’s apartment in Napa on February 1, after the third anonymous tip came in about possible child abuse.
According to the Times-Herald, Napa County District Attorney Gary Lieberstein said that the coroner’s official report cited, "multiple blunt impact injuries to the head, torso and extremities due to fatal child abuse and neglect,” which collaborated with earlier suspicion.
Krueger and Warner were picked up at El Cerrito del Norte Station after police went looking for them when the two did not return back to the apartment.
After talking to the pair, they admitted that they kept the child’s body in a suitcase inside of a freezer for at least three days, according to SF Gate .
A preliminary trial will be held on April 2. Both will be held without bail.