A 4-year-old girl was found dead and her 6-year-old sister was rescued from a horrific scene involving small animal cages that may be related to human trafficking, police said.
The child rescue comes a day after the girls’ mother, 35-year-old Callie Burnett, was found murdered 130 miles away in southern Louisiana.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Burnett, the girls’ mother, was missing for over 24 hours before being found ‘brutally murdered‘ in the bedroom of her home in Loranger on Thursday, authorities said.
Her children, who had been reported missing by their father on Wednesday, were nowhere to be found when the body was discovered.
The prime suspect is Burnett’s boyfriend Daniel Callihan, the children’s father.
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HOW JALIE WAS FOUND
Jalie Brunett, 6, was discovered alive inside of a car in a wooded area in Jackson on Thursday.
ERIN IS FOUND DEAD
Her younger sister Erin’s dead body was a few yards away, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said, according to WVUE.
‘Based on the crime scene, what it looks like, this may be the place where there has been some human trafficking done,’ Police told reporters at a press conference. ‘We see cages, small animal cages.’
Julie was taken to an area hospital with minor injuries for treatment. How Erin died is under check.
