A teenager missing for months was just found buried in her neighbors backyard. Nail polish helped identify her
Orange fingernail polish helped investigators identify a missing 17-year-old whose remains were found Tuesday in the backyard of her neighbors home in Indiana, authorities said.
Valerie Tindalls family reported her missing on June 8, more than five months earlier?, the Rush County Sheriffs Department said in a Facebook post.
Patrick Scott, 59, who lives behind the Tindalls, was arrested and charged with murder after admitting to killing her on June 7, according to a criminal homicide report.Scott also was charged with obstruction of justice and giving false information to a law enforcement officer, according to charging documents.The court entered a not guilty plea on his behalf on Thursday, records show. CNN reached out to a public defender for Scott but he was unavailable for comment.
Scott told Rush County Sheriffs detectives he strangled Tindall with a belt in his home after an argument, according to the criminal homicide report. Scott owns a lawn mowing business, and Tindall works for him, the report said.
Scott told detectives he built a box the following day and put Tindalls body in it after wrapping it with black plastic and then taping it, the report said.
He placed the box in a hole in his backyard, covering it by using a shovel, the report said.
Scott initially advised law enforcement and Tindalls family that he had not seen Tindall, nor had she worked for him on June 7, according to the criminal homicidereport.
Scott and his wife went to the Tindall residence on June 7 in an attempt to support Valeries family, according to the report.
Tindalls body was discovered earlier this week after officials executed a search warrant at Scotts home, the report stated.
When police located the human remains, they noticed orange fingernails, which is the color of nail polish Tindall was last seen wearing on a social media post on June 7, the report said.
Scott had been a person of interest early in the investigation, the sheriffs office said. According to the criminal homicidereport, on October 11, police searched Scotts property with cadaver dogs, which signaled the presence of human remains in a pond nearby, but there were no remains found in the pond after a search.
On October 12, during a flyover search, the report said, officials noted multiple areas of disturbed ground on Scotts property.
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