Prosecutors: Child Murder Suspect Tried to Distract & Lied to Police

SHELBY, N.C. – Day two of the Jordyn Dumont murder trial was graphic and revealing. The jury saw pictures of the three-year-old’s beaten and bruised body after investigators found her in the woods.

The attorney for suspect William “Skip” McCullen argued his client was “cooperative” and “respectful” during questioning.

Prosecutors made the case that McCullen tried to distract police with bogus suspects, refused to tell police where Jordyn’s body was and lied about what happened to her.

Gaston Co. Police Detective Brian Dalton told the court about two of the stories he says McCullen told detectives. First, Dalton says, “He (McCullen) was, in a playful manner, swinging Jordyn by her hands in the living room and that she hit her head.” And later, Dalton says, “He (McCullen) went over basically to give her a spanking, and she was resisting, squirming, and that he punched her 2 or 3 times in the stomach, hard.”

Dalton says McCullen told him that he was “pissed off” that Jordyn wouldn’t take a nap or eat. McCullen also allegedly told investigators the other bruises on her body where from where he used a drum stick to hit her when she misbehaved, and that he dropped her body a few times in the woods when he tried to hide it.

Friday, the medical examiner will testify.