Ex-Boyfriend Kills Washington Mother, Her 7-Year-Old Daughter, Then Googled ‘How to Beat Murder,’ ‘Killing Witness’ [Video]

A Washington man has admitted to shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend and her young daughter, before dumping their bodies near a rural road.

As reported by Local 12 News, Vancouver police attempted to conduct a welfare check on Meshay Melendez and her daughter Layla Stewart on March 18, 2023, but found the residence empty (except for a barking dog).

Melendez’s friends and family said they hadn’t heard from her in a week, and one even said the mother and daughter hadn’t been home at all recently.

Investigators said they learned Melendez and Stewart had apparently stayed at a friend’s house with 28-year-old Kirkland Warren on the last day she was seen. The friend whose home the group stayed in said they saw Melendez and Warren leave the home without the child.

They said that when Warren returned, Melendez was in his passenger seat “passed out.” The friend said Warren brought Stewart to …