TANGIPAHOA PARISH, La. (TCN) — A 37-year-old man recently pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the kidnapping of two children after he allegedly stabbed the girls’ mother.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Daniel Callihan pleaded guilty to kidnapping resulting in death and transporting a minor in interstate commerce with intent to engage in criminal sexual violation. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 19 and faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison for kidnapping resulting in death. If the court accepts his plea, the government will not seek the death penalty.
On or about June 12, 2024, Callihan allegedly stabbed a woman, identified by the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office as Callie Brunett, more than 50 times. Following her death, prosecutors said Callihan kidnapped Brunett’s two children, 4-year-old Erin Brunett and 6-year-old Jalie Brunett, and drove them to Mississippi in their mother’s vehicle. According to authorities, the defendant then went back to Louisiana to pick up a co-conspirator before he drove to a home in Jackson, Mississippi…