Savanna Greywind, 22, was eight months pregnant when her body was found wrapped in plastic and dumped in the Red River near North Dakota river last August.
William Hoehn, who has been charged with the conspiracy to commit murder, allegedly told Brooke Crews: "If she's not dead, she is now,", prosecuting lawyer Ryan Younggren said.
But Hoehn claims he didn't know Crews had planned to kill Greywind.
He told police that he returned home to find Crews cleaning up blood in the bathroom, before presenting him with the baby and saying, "this is our family".
Greywind disappeared on August 19 after visiting her next-door neighbour Brooke Lynn Crews for a dress fitting.
Crews claimed Savanna came back two days later at 3.30 a.m. and gave her the baby girl.
She eventually confessed to police that she had tried to get the newborn from Savanna.
Court documents read: “Crews admitted she had taken advantage of Savanna Greywind in an attempt to obtain her child and possibly keep the child as her own."
Officials have still not understood how her body ended up in the river, but forensics concluded that she bled to death.
Defence lawyer Daniel Borgen said Greywind was already dead when Hoehn entered the bathroom, and he helped to cover the crime.
Borgen said: "He helped her. He shouldn't have. He should have immediately called the police."
His former girlfriend, Brooke Crews, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and two other charges in December.
She was was sentenced to life in prison without parole in February.
Doting dad Ashton Matheny was reunited with his baby n Haisley Jo weeks after Savanna was found dead.
The miracle newborn was brought along to her 22-year-old mum's funeral on Thursday with Aston and Savannah's distraught parents.
Her bill, "Savanna's Act," aims to improve tribal access to federal crime information databases. It would also require the Department of Justice to develop a protocol to respond to cases of missing and murdered Native Americans and the federal government to provide an annual report on the numbers.
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