LA JALIE & ERIN BRUNETT: Missing from Loranger, LA - 11 June 2024 - Age 6 & 4 *Jalie Alive / Erin Deceased**GUILTY PLEA*

Mother found dead, 2 children missing after killing in Louisiana, sheriff's office says

A mother of two was found dead in her home early Thursday and her children are missing in what police are investigating as a homicide, according to Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's

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Mother found dead, 2 children missing after killing in Louisiana, sheriff's office says​

A mother of two was found dead in her home early Thursday and her children are missing in what police are investigating as a homicide, according to Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office.

Detectives found Callie Brunett, 35, dead in her Loranger home on North Cooper Road after being reported missing for 24 hours. Brunett's children, Jalie, 6, and Erin, 4, are considered missing, police said.

Brunett's car, a black 2012 Chrysler 200 with the Louisiana license plate 859GML, is also missing, detectives say.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Give him the lethal injection he wants. He is one of the worst monsters although we have seen many.

So many kids lives destroyed or taken! It gets SO old.

I skimmed this to refresh what the case was when I came in. Can't always keep all straight when not the most active thread sadly.

The fact a relative of his warned about him and alerted the feds even and nothing was done.

I just get so upset and irate over these.

 

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One year since televised confession of Loranger double murders and kidnapping case

Daniel Callihan is set to face federal trial in heinous murder and kidnapping case next month.

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One year after confessing on live television to a crime described by authorities as “heinous,” Daniell Callihan is preparing to stand trial on federal charges stemming from a disturbing case that spanned multiple states.

Callihan is accused of killing 35-year-old Callie Brunett in her Loranger, Louisiana, home before kidnapping her two young daughters and taking them across state lines to Mississippi. The case took an even more tragic turn when 4-year-old Erin, one of Brunett’s daughters, was found dead. The other daughter was located and rescued alive.


Callihan is now facing a complex legal battle involving charges in Louisiana, Mississippi, and at the federal level. Although Tangipahoa Parish District Attorney Scott Perrilloux has expressed to our partners at Nola.com, a strong desire to try Callihan in Louisiana first, a federal trial is now scheduled to begin on July 28.

However, a pretrial motion hearing Monday in Tangipahoa for the Louisiana case, was pushed back to October at the request of Callihan's lawyer.


Despite confessing on live TV, Callihan plead not guilty. Callihan has been ruled competent to stand trial, but Cuccia emphasized that competency at trial is different from legal sanity at the time of the alleged crimes.

“Sanity at the time of [offense] the question is whether at the time he was able to distinguish right from wrong” Cuccia said, explaining the difference between the competency levels.

Loyola Law Professor Dane Ciolino weighed in, noting that confessions carry enormous weight with juries and the insanity plea may be Callihan’s only viable route to a not guilty verdict.

“Juries find confessions to be very, very persuasive—particularly one here done voluntarily that was recorded on video. There could be no argument that he was coerced into making that confession,” Ciolino said.

"That's what will make this confession so damning in his case, if his defense lawyers continue to press insanity at the time of the offense, that's about all they've got. And if they're going to have any hope of doing any better than a guilty on all counts verdict, it's going to be to convince the jury that nobody does something as heinous as he did, unless they're insane and they don't understand the difference between right and wrong."

Though the upcoming federal trial is expected to be lengthy and complex, Callihan is still anticipated to face charges in both Louisiana and Mississippi courts.

 

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Daniel Callihan faces new federal indictment in northshore murder-kidnapping case, trial delayed

Callihan is accused of killing 35-year-old Callie Brunett and her 4-year-old daughter, Erin, who he allegedly kidnapped along with her 6-year-old sister.

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Daniel Callihan faces new federal indictment in northshore murder-kidnapping case, trial delayed​

Just days before his trial was to begin in federal court in New Orleans, prosecutors filed a new indictment against Daniel Callihan, who is accused of a brutal Tangipahoa Parish murder-kidnapping that shocked the northshore in the summer of 2024.

The superseding indictment, filed into the court record on Friday, came a day after U.S. District Judge Lance Africk agreed to a prosecution motion to continue Callihan's trial, which had been scheduled to start on Monday.

The new indictment includes the same charges against Callihan — kidnapping resulting in death and transporting a minor across state lines to engage in criminal sexual activity — but comes from a grand jury. Callihan had previously been charged in a bill of information from the U.S. government.

Callihan is set to be rearraigned and enter a plea on the superseding indictment on Aug. 6.


Callihan's attorney, Kerry Cuccia, declined comment Monday on the superseding indictment or any plea that Callihan might enter at his arraignment.

The superseding indictment does include a "notice of special findings," which outlines several allegations, including that Callihan intentionally killed Brunett and her 4-year-old daughter and that the crimes happened after "substantial planning and premeditation."

 

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Louisiana murder suspect who kidnapped children and drove them to Mississippi pleads guilty to federal charges - Magnolia State Live

A Louisiana man who admitted on live television to murdering a woman and her young daughter pleaded guilty to federal charges Wednesday, avoiding a potential death sentence.

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Louisiana murder suspect who kidnapped children and drove them to Mississippi pleads guilty to federal charges
A Louisiana man who admitted on live television to murdering a woman and her young daughter pleaded guilty to federal charges Wednesday, avoiding a potential death sentence.

Daniel Callihan changed his plea to guilty on charges of kidnapping resulting in death and transportation of a minor for criminal sexual activity. In exchange, federal prosecutors will no longer seek the death penalty. Callihan now faces a mandatory life sentence and will be required to register as a sex offender.

Federal sentencing for Callihan is set for November 19. He still faces state murder charges in both Louisiana and Mississippi and is expected to serve any state prison time before beginning his federal sentence.

 

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Callihan gets life in prison after pleading guilty to killing Loranger woman, daughter in state court

Daniel Callihan pleads guilty to killing Loranger woman, daughter; state sentences him to life in prison

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Callihan gets life in prison after pleading guilty to killing Loranger woman, daughter in state court​

Daniel Callihan was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences on Friday after pleading guilty to the murder of a Loranger woman and her daughter in state court.

Callihan pleaded guilty to the two first-degree murder counts more than a month after he pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping resulting in death and transportation of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activities charges.

As Callihan walked into the courtroom Friday morning, with shackles around his wrists and waist, six Tangipahoa Sheriff's deputies followed behind him. One bench separated Callie and Erin Brunette's family from their killer. When the time came, Brunett's sister, Brandi Hosch told Daniel Callihan he, "had no soul."

Callihan pleaded guilty to killing Callie Brunett in Tangipahoa Parish. According to prosecutors, he stabbed Brunnett 50 times before taking the girls to Hinds County, Mississippi, where 4-year-old Erin Brunett was found dead.

"Daniel Callihan knows exactly what he did today," Kerry Cuccia, Callihan's defense attorney said. "He did not enter this plea today out of fear but out of recognition of the ills that he had and the only thing that he could do to try and make amends."

Brunett's 6-year-old daughter was later found and reunited with her family in Louisiana. Over the course of the investigation, it was learned that Callihan intended to keep her as a "sex slave."

Friday's plea lets Callihan avoid the death penalty, but judge Brian K. Ables called Callihan an animal who "must be caged to keep other people safe."


Both Callihan and his girlfriend, Victoria Cox, are also being charged with capital murder and related crimes in Mississippi. Cox was also indicted in Tangipahoa Parish.

Callihan has a court date in Mississippi set for Sept. 29, and sentencing for his federal charges are set for December.

Callihan's two consecutive life sentences in Louisiana will be the first to be served, officials added.

 

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Duo who raped 6-year-old girl, kept her captive in pit with dead sister may get plea deals​

According to PEOPLE, 34-year-old Victoria Cox, who is accused of assisting a man who killed a woman and abducted her two young daughters, later killing one and keeping the other as a "sex slave," was offered a plea deal from prosecutors during a court appearance on Monday, October 13.


The report states that 37-year-old Daniel Callihan, in a factual basis signed after he pleaded guilty to federal charges, admitted to killing 35-year-old Callie Brunett and kidnapping her two young daughters from Louisiana on June 11, 2024. Callihan also admitted to driving the children to Mississippi the next day, then driving back to Louisiana to pick up Cox, before returning to McComb, Mississippi, per the publication.

Callihan admitted in the factual basis that he and Cox both sexually abused the six-year-old girl before he killed her four-year-old sister

34-year-old Victoria Cox, who is accused of assisting a man who killed a woman and abducted her two young daughters, later killing one and keeping the other as a "sex slave," was offered a plea deal from prosecutors during a court appearance on Monday, October 13.

Duo who raped 6-year-old girl, kept her captive in pit with dead sister may get plea deals

Prosecutors have agreed not to seek the death penalty so long as he pleaded guilty to all charges, per the publication.

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sickening - no plea deals for crimes such as this!

 

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Imo they both deserve the death penalty NOT a plea bargain!

 

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Victoria Cox sentenced in deadly kidnapping

Cox was indicted last year in connection with the crime.

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A woman tied to a deadly kidnapping that began in Louisiana and ended in the city of Jackson will spend the next 40 years behind bars.

On Monday, Hinds County Circuit Judge Winston Kidd sentenced a tearful Victoria Cox to 40 years in prison, after she pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder and one count of kidnapping.

Cox will serve 40 years on the murder charge and 25 on the kidnapping charge, with both to serve concurrently.

“These acts you committed, do you understand how awful these acts were? You understand how innocent these two little girls were?” Kidd asked. “This is something you’re going to have a lot of time to think about.”

Cox was indicted last year for capital murder, kidnapping, and sexual battery, for her role in kidnapping two children from Louisiana, bringing them into Mississippi, sexually assaulting them, and killing one.

Her co-conspirator, Daniel Callihan, pleaded guilty in connection to the same crime back in September.

He was given life sentences on three charges: capital murder and two counts of sexual battery, and 30 years on each count of kidnapping.