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 rearr

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