The investigator who examined Kernodle's body found several defensive knife wounds on her hands in a blood-covered room on the first floor. "It was obvious an intense struggle had occurred," the investigator wrote in one of the newly released reports.
Juan Parra-Peralta testified that Jessica Yesenia Quintanilla urged him to hide Leilani Beauchamp's body and suggested burning it, fearing he would be killed if he refused. He detailed how they abandoned the wrapped body in Salinas, indicating her manipulative and threatening behavior.