By Chuck Hustmyre
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On Monday, March 12, Peggy Edenfield, 57, admitted to detectives that her son had killed Christopher, the search warrant affidavit says. She said she had lied to investigators about the killing out of fear of going to jail.
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| Peggy Edenfield (mugshot) |
In later interviews, Detective Daras wrote in his affidavit, police discovered that Peggy Edenfield witnessed her son and her husband, 58-year-old David Edenfield, who in 1994 was convicted of incest, use their hands to choke Christopher to death.
In the application for the search warrant for the Edenfields' home, filed on March 16, the day after two game wardens found Christopher's body in a trash bag dumped beside a road, less than three miles from his home, Daras wrote that Peggy Edenfield admitted trying to clean fingerprints off of Christopher's neck with soap and water and wrapping his body in plastic trash bags.
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| Memorial at site |
That affidavit also says that Peggy Edenfield told police that George and David "used clothing to wipe semen off their bodies."
In three later search warrant affidavits, Daras wrote that Peggy admitted to helping her husband dispose of Christopher's body, but that it was George, not her, who tried to clean fingerprints from the boy's neck.
Wednesday a grand jury indicted all three Edenfields for murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, enticing a child for indecent purposes, false imprisonment, and child molestation.
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