'Heartbroken': Mother of Olivia Jansen's half-sister speaks out

41 Action News spoke with the woman who has a child with Howard Jansen III, the man accused of killing his 3-year-old daughter, Olivia Jansen.

FIRST AT SIX -- SEEKINGJUSTICE.A THREE-YEAR-OLD KILLEDAND FOUND BURIED IN K-C-K.TONIGHT -- WE'REINVESTIGATING WHATFAMILY MEMBERS SAY --FAILED THE THREE YEAROLD CHILD -- AFTER THEYMADE CALLS TOAUTHORITIES ABOUT HERSAFETY.OLIVIA'S FATHER --HOWARD JANSEN WASARRESTED.AS WAS HER STEP-MOTHER -- JACQULYNKIRKPATRICK.BOTH ARE CHARGED WITHFIRST DEGREE MURDER,ENDANGERING A CHILDAND CRIMINALDESECRATION.AND IN A 41 ACTION NEWSEXCLUSIVE -- THE EX-WIFEOF HOWARD JANSENTALKS ABOUT THE IMPACTON OLIVIA'S SISTER.REPORTER SARAHPLAKED TALKED WITH HERTODAY.The community is heartbrokand angry - how could thishave happened to a little girl?And we are digging to find out.Strangers are still sheddingtears for 3 year old OliviaJansen..

This heartbreakingmemorial grows every day..

Atthe foot of a trail in the woodsnear 34th & Steele where herbody was found.Heartbroken, devastateThis hits home for KaylaFerris.

She was once marriedto and has a child with theman charged in Olivia'smurder - Olivia's father,Howard Jansen IIIt's my daughter's sister.She's the first baby that madeher a big sister.

Lily said thatand it's heartbreaking anddevastating and she said hersister didn't deserve this.

Andshe's right, she didn't deserveany of this.Jansen and Olivia's stepmomJaqulyn Kirkland are bothcharged with murder, childendangerment, anddesecrating her body.Ferris says she was terrifiedthe second she heard Oliviawas missing on July 10.Because the house he saidshe was missing from I kneno one lived for months... Andit was just very odd and fishyto me that she would just walkright out the door of a housethat you were no longer livingin.Ferris says Jansen is an angryman, but she never thoughtanything like this wouldhappen.Now she's helping herdaughter try to process this.To try to explain to your nineyear old that she'll never seeher baby sister ever again.Sarah Plake 41 action news.