Danial Rinehart - Rape of Daughter/Murder of 2 infants -TBD
Mo. Authorities Find Babies' Bodies In Coolers POSTED: 4:17 pm CST January 23, 2009 UPDATED: 4:30 pm CST January 23, 2009 HARRISONVILLE, Mo. -- Missouri prosecutors announced charges Friday against a man for allegedly raping his teenage daughter and killing at least one of the babies. Danial M. Rinehart, 47, was charged with one count of second-degree murder, endangering the welfare of a child, statutory rape, two counts of incest and two counts of abandonment of a corpse. Authorities allege Rinehart fathered four children with his then 13-year-old daughter. The girl is now 19. Only one of the children she gave birth to is alive and is in custody of the state. One child apparently died in Oklahoma. Sheriff Dwight Diel said the investigation began in Oct. 3 after receiving a tip that there were two babies buried in a rural Harrisonville garage. No remains were found. But then in January, investigators said they received a call from the new owners of the property, who told detectives that they found something suspicious. "Deputies were sent to investigate and found what appeared to be the remains of a small child in a sealed ice cooler. Continued investigation found what appeared to be the body of a second small child in a second ice cooler," Diehl said. Rinehart's wife, Linda, has also been charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child. Prosecutors requested a $500,000 cash-only bond on Danial Rinehart. Rinehart's Mother: 'I Had No Idea' The mother of Danial Rinehart said that she had no idea what was going on in her back yard. Dolores Rinehart said her son lived in a pair of campers behind their home in rural Harrisonville. Dolores Rinehart said that her son, his wife and the daughter who bore his children lived in a camper and a recreational vehicle behind the main house. But Dolores Rinehart said that her son kept his family away from her. She described the group as drifters. "Nothing at all. They kept the gates locked so I couldn't go back. I didn't go back to none of them campers," Dolores Rinehart said. "I was got to think that for three years they lived back there and I didn't know there was a baby. I didn't know nothing." http://www.kcci.com/news/18551481/detail.html