Tortured and then dumped in the sea … just because she forgot to say 'sir' and 'please'Four weeks after the remains were found, police arrested Kimberley Trenor, a 19-year-old from Ohio, whose mother had tipped off police after recognising the image of Baby Grace as her missing granddaughter Riley Ann.
Trenor spilled a confession detailing a horrific six-hour torture session in which she and her husband Royce Ziegler, 25, had "disciplined" the girl for failing to address him properly by thrashing her with leather belts and repeatedly holding her head under water in the bathtub.
She was also held face down in a pillow on her bed, and on the cushions of a sofa.
Ziegler then picked up the toddler by her hair and hurled her across a room, causing her head to slam into the tiled floor, Trenor's arrest affidavit claims.
After the girl had stopped breathing, they bought bleach, rubber gloves, concrete mix, a shovel, a plastic container and padlocks. Her body was stored for up to two months before it was hurled into Galveston Bay.
Trenor and Ziegler both face life without parole if convicted for murder. Trenor denies the charge, but admitted to tampering with evidence by helping to dispose of the remains
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