NEW ORLEANS — Daniel Callihan, already serving multiple life sentences in Louisiana and Mississippi for the murder and kidnapping of a Loranger mother and her 6-year-old daughter, was handed two additional consecutive life terms in federal court this week.

Callihan, 38, had previously pleaded guilty in state courts for the 2024 killing of 35-year-old Callie Brunett and her daughter, Jalie, as well as the kidnapping of Brunett’s surviving 3-year-old daughter, Erin. The federal sentencing marks the final chapter in a case that spanned multiple jurisdictions and prompted a massive manhunt.

“It was expected,” Tangipahoa Parish District Attorney Scott Perrilloux said after the hearing, according to New Orleans TV station WGNO. “The family had to get through it. This is not their first time to

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