KTLA News
4:29 AM PST, December 9, 2009
SANTA ANA - A grand jury has indicted a man whose decomposed daughter was found in the freezer of his motor home.
The Orange County district attorney's office says 56-year-old Clarence Butterfield was indicted Tuesday on one count of murder during torture and mayhem and one count of assault with a firearm.
Butterfield is accused of shooting and suffocating his 21-year-old daughter Rebekah in 2006 and storing her body in a 5-foot freezer.
Authorities found the badly decomposing body in his RV last year after Butterfield was arrested and sent to Nevada on an unrelated criminal warrant.
Butterfield lived in the 1995 Chevrolet Tioga Arrow motor home that was parked on private property in the Capistrano Beach area of Dana Point. He was arrested in Dana Point on Sept. 20, 2008 on a Las Vegas warrant for forgery, burglary and theft, Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said.
The owner of the property where the motor home was parked had the RV towed while Butterfield was in custody in Nevada. Electricity was cut off to the RV when it was towed and the body thawed out. Workers were going through the home when the body was discovered, Armomino said.
Sheriff's homicide detectives went to North Carolina to get a DNA sample from the young woman's mother to positively identify her.
Rebekah Butterfield's body was wrapped in sheets of plastic. She had not been seen by her mother for two years.
Authorities said Clarence Butterfield has a history of domestic violence and drifted between Orange and Riverside counties and Las Vegas, Amormino said.
From: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-rv-body,0,272412.story
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