Loggers working in Caldwell County, N.C., discovered on Tuesday a briefcase containing what appears to be a blanket or clothing related to the case Zahra Baker, a 10-year-old girl missing since October.
The briefcase was found off Christie Road, which is where investigators found Zahra's prosthetic leg on Oct. 26, reported NBC station WCNC of Charlotte.
The girl was reported missing on Oct. 9. Search warrants indicate Elisa Baker, Zahra's stepmother, told Hickory police that Zahra died on Sept. 24, but there are no details as to how or why she died.
The same warrants say Baker told police that Adam Baker, Zahra's father, dismembered the girl's body and hid parts of it in several locations around Caldwell County.
Police found Zahra's remains through information provided by Elisa Baker, who accompanied them to some of the sites.
Elisa Baker is behind bars on charges on charges of obstructing justice during the investigation of Zahra's disappearance.
Her father, Adam Baker was arrested in October on charges unrelated to his daughter's death. He is free on bond.
So far, no one has been charged in connection with the death.
Meanwhile Tuesday, Elisa Baker was indicted on bigamy charges. Investigators said she was still married to another man when she married Adam Baker.
On Jan. 4, Elisa Baker's lawyers sought to have her bond of nearly $100,000 lowered, but a Superior Court judge in Newton postponed a hearing on the request until March 7.
Zahra Baker had a prosthetic leg and hearing aides after a struggle with bone cancer. She was born in Australia and lived there until she moved to North Carolina two years ago.
A former Queensland sugar mill worker, Adam Baker moved from Australia to the U.S. two years ago with Zahra so he could be with his American wife, Elisa Baker.
Search warrants released in early January reveal police looked into reports Adam and Elisa Baker talked in an online community about a "chainsaw massacre role play" days before the girl may have died.
The warrants go on to say that mobile phone records from September 24 and 25 show that Adam Baker wasn't in the places where Zahra's remains were dumped.
Mobile phone records do show that Elisa Baker was in those places at those times, according to warrants.
