New, exclusive evidence against an Orange County mother accused of making up a hit and run accident to cover up her daughter’s murder show a messy home and the child's blood around the house.
The new documents and pictures provide a look at the DNA evidence investigators said they have in the case against 23-year-old Maryanne Schwartz.
Schwartz is the only suspect, facing first-degree murder for the death of her 3-year-old daughter, Yeliani Ojeda Schwartz.
It happened last June at the Grandview Pointe Apartments on Americana Boulevard in Orlando.
In the exclusive pictures taken by investigators nearly a week after the girl’s death, you can see a glimpse into the girl’s living conditions. It includes an apartment still in disarray, even though it appears someone had begun cleaning up by bagging up empty beer cans and clothes.
Initially, when Schwartz called 911 she told troopers her daughter was hit by a car outside their apartment late on a Friday night.
She said she didn’t actually see her daughter get hit but saw a black vehicle near a dumpster, where she was hit.
New pictures also show Schwartz was keeping track of appointments with crime scene investigators but deputies point to contradictory physical evidence they say shows she was not telling the truth about what really happened to her daughter.
According to a newly-released Florida Department of Law Enforcement laboratory report, the girl’s blood was found on a toddler-sized mattress, the carpet and the bedroom walls.
The medical examiner’s office ruled the child’s death a homicide, explaining that Yeliani had bruises all over her body, she was malnourished and that she died from blunt force trauma, not from being the victim of a hit and run accident.
In addition to first-degree murder, Schwartz also faces charges of aggravated child abuse, providing false information to law enforcement during an investigation and providing false information regarding a felony.