Couple Arrested For Traveling With 8-Year-Old Girl's Dead Body In U-Haul Trailer

A couple allegedly covered up the death of an 8-year-old girl and traveled across state lines with her dead body in a U-Haul trailer.

Aleksander Kurmoyarov, 28, and his girlfriend, Mandie Miller, 33, were arrested in South Dakota on Wednesday after they admitted to placing the body of the woman's daughter in a coffin inside the U-Haul trailer. The girl reportedly died more than a month ago.

The incident came to light after the pair contacted the Davison County Coroner and said they were driving from Airway Heights in Washington to South Dakota's Pine Ridge with a dead child. The coroner then alerted the Mitchell Police Department about the grim situation, reported the New York Post.

"Officers from the Mitchell Police Department were able to locate Kurmoyarov and Miller at a residence in Mitchell with a U-Haul tow behind a trailer that they stated contained a coffin with Miller's juvenile daughter's body," the police department said in a statement.

However, the couple's statements about the girl's death were contradictory.

"During an interview with Kurmoyarov, he stated that the juvenile had died in Airway Heights a little before Halloween 2022. Miller told investigators that her daughter died on September 10, 2022," police said.

Kurmoyarov told investigators they did not seek medical attention when the child died because he and the girl's mother "wanted to spend more time with her." The man also said "he was afraid that they would get in trouble," police added.

The couple had spent four days in South Dakota. They allegedly did not notify law enforcement authorities about the child's death, according to KREM 2 News.

"Kurmoyarov and Miller were each charged with 1 count of Failure to notify Law Enforcement of death of child," the police department added.

They are currently being held in South Dakota. The circumstances around the child's death were not immediately clear.