Justin Laurens Stein, 33, has pleaded not guilty to murdering nine-year-old Charlise Mutten.
When police questioned Justin Stein's version of what happened to schoolgirl Charlise Mutten, the accused murderer changed his account to blame the girl's mother.
It had been dumped in a barrel near the Colo River after the girl sustained two gunshot wounds, to her head and lower back. He claimed the girl had woken up sick the next morning and that he had left her in the care of a real estate agent who arrived to do an appraisal on the property while he went out.
They were given legal custody when Mutten went to jail over a driving incident in which her passenger was killed, the court heard.
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