An American was arrested in a forest on June 13. He is suspected of having killed a 4-year-old girl and her 35-year-old mother.
The image sends shivers down your spine. Daniel Callihan, a 36-year-old American, is dragged by the police while covered in dirt. The man reportedly spent several days in a forest in Mississippi, where he is suspected of having killed a 4-year-old girl after shooting her 35-year-old mother. A report of a worrying disappearance was made public on June 13, indicating that two young children had disappeared. This alert was given after the body of their mother, Callie Brunett, was found lifeless at her home in Loranger.
The authorities did everything to find her two little girls as quickly as possible. The suspect was later located approximately 2 hours’ drive from the victim’s home. It was there in a wooded area, after a “short chase” that Daniel Callihan was arrested. The body of the 4-year-old girl was lying nearby in the woods while her 6-year-old sister was injured. “It’s very, very disturbing for me as a police chief and as a father to witness and see what I just saw,” Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade said. cited by CNN.
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Joseph Wade gave details of how the girl’s body was discovered, explaining that he was faced with a “very traumatic and tragic” scene. “You don’t want to see that.” As a father, seeing this baby on the ground who lost her life… She is an innocent 4 year old child who is no longer with us because of the actions of a coward,” he commented.
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Human trafficking?
The already tragic affair took an even more sordid turn when the police explained that they feared that the woods where the girls were found was the site of “human trafficking”. “We are going to comb this area with a fine-tooth comb. It’s going to take us some time,” explained Joseph Wade. Jackson investigators noted in particular that they had found cages for small animals in this area. According to CNN, Daniel Callihan would also have benefited from the help of an accomplice, Victoria Cox, 32, arrested Friday in a motel in south Jackson.
The investigation also revealed that the suspect and Callie Brunett had maintained a relationship made up of episodes of breakups and reconciliations for a year. Before his arrest, Daniel Callihan was wanted for questioning “for an incident of domestic violence, which occurred at the time of the kidnapping and resulted in a homicide”, indicates CNN. But the police do not yet have a motive for the crime. She hopes to learn more through questioning the 6-year-old survivor.
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The suspect’s half-sister, Dixie Hemphill, gave some details on the latter to the WLBT channel. She explained that she learned of Callie’s death and the disappearance of her two daughters on Facebook. Moments after seeing this post, she received messages from her half-brother. “He called me at least 13 times on Messenger. He asked for money, he said it was an emergency, but he wanted me to call him back.” She was the one who called the police to inform them of her brother’s possible involvement in the crime. At WLBT, Dixie Hemphill said her family had previously tried to alert authorities to the danger her brother posed. “If they had listened to us two years ago…I did everything I could. I had proof, I tried everything,” she lamented.
