A man has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-girlfriend and also killing her 2-year-old daughter, whose remains were found in a suitcase by the side of the road in South Australia.
It has been almost 10 years since Karlie Jade Pearce Stevenson and her 2-year-old daughter Khandalyce were last seen alive in December 2008.
Police say Daniel James Holdom murdered Pearce Stevenson between Dec. 13 and 16 in 2008 and dumped her body in the Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales, where her remains were found in 2010.
Police also say he murdered her daughter, Khandalyce, between Dec. 18 and 21 in Narrandera or elsewhere in New South Wales.
Khandalyce's remains were found in a suitcase beside a highway in rural South Australia in July 2015.
Holdom, 43, was charged with the two murders later in 2015 and in August 2017 was committed to stand trial in the NSW Supreme Court.
But he entered a plea of guilty to the two murders on Tuesday morning, just days from the scheduled start of his trial.
He will face a sentence hearing on Sept. 28.