Police and family friends had been searching for Wallace and Barbour since May 19, two days after the girl last was seen with Barbour. Her body was found on property belonging to Barbour's family, little more than a mile from the home where both lived with Wallace's twin sister Kynlee, and their mother, Barbour's girlfriend.
The home is in Summer Shade, just across the Monroe County line.
"He wasn't supposed to be there, and they weren't either," Barbour's father said off-camera late Tuesday afternoon.
Police and friends had searched the family farms and neighbors' adjoining property for days, even using a tracking dog and a helicopter, he said.
This past Thursday, family members found a note taped to the refrigerator in the home's kitchen, Barbour's father said.
"He wrote that he was sorry," the elder Barbour said. "He said it was an accident, that Laynee had fallen off of a cliff and that he panicked. He said he tried to save her, but that she was in Heaven now."
The elder Barbour maintains his son is no killer.
"He's done wrong, but I believe he was trying to give himself up," he said.
Barbour's father offered no explanation why his son apparently hid the girl's body and chose to hid out.
"If was an accident, accidents happen," Lori Beth Ferguson said. "I wish they had just gone ahead and reported it and said look this happened."
"This hits close to home," Brent Ferguson said as he held their younger son, Jackson, just shy of Laynee Wallace's age.
"I sat out here for several hours and just cried," said Lori Beth Ferguson. "The thought of that little girl, in that well. I didn't know her. I didn't know him (Barbour) but this hurts us all.”
Barbour spent Monday night and much of Tuesday morning in Samson Hospital before he was booked into the Barren County Detention Center.
"We can't comment on why at this time, it's an open investigation," said Trooper Eaton.
But I remember being content working, and raising my child without the constant need for a man. It was fun just getting together with other Moms and letting our kids play while we talked. 
