JACKSON, Miss — A day after a Tangipahoa Parish grand jury indicted two suspects in the Brunett abduction and murder case, 36-year-old Daniel Callihan waived his rights to both preliminary and detention hearings while in federal court in Jackson, Miss., on Friday.
Callihan is accused of killing Callie Brunett and then kidnapping her two young girls before allegedly killing the youngest, Erin Brunett – the latter of which he admitted to while being transported back to Rankin County Jail last week.
According to the official U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Callihan officially waived his rights to "an identity hearing, production of judgement, warrant, warrant application, and any preliminary or detention hearing to which [he] may be entitled in this district."
Tangipahoa District Attorney Scott Perrilloux talked about possible extradition after Daniel Callihan and Victoria Cox were indicted on Thursday.
Perrilloux said he hoped to have Callihan back in Tangipahoa for an arraignment as soon as possible.
"He is apparently located, law enforcement tells me in another state, right now being details, so he has some rights with respect to being sent back to another state," he said. "He can waive those rights and that would make it a lot faster process. We’ll see how that happens."
A Tangipahoa official told WWL Louisiana that if Callihan waived his right to extradition in federal court he will be transported to a Louisiana jail that holds federal inmates as Tangipahoa does not.
Both Callihan and fellow murder suspect Victoria Cox, 32, are currently in the custody of the U.S. Marshal's Service.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety announced that Commissioner Sean Tindell, along with representatives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations, Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, Jackson Police Department, Hinds County Sheriff’s Office, District Attorney’s Office and U.S. Marshals will host a press conference in Jackson on Monday to provide an update on the case.
See the complete court document below:
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