The 20-year-old maintenance man who pleaded guilty to killing 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera last month was found dead in his cell of an apparent suicide.
Ryun Brunn was arrested on Dec. 7, 2011 and charged with murdering Jorelys who was reported missing by her mother on Dec. 2.
Jorelys was last seen playing with other children in the playground of the apartment complex where she lived. Brunn was hired as a maintenance man at the apartment complex in Nov. 2011. He bragged on facebook about living rent free at the complex.
A Georgia Department of Corrections spokesman said Brunn was found unresponsive in his cell at 4:15 pm, reports Channel 2 Action News. It isn’t clear if Brunn was on suicide watch at the time.
Brunn appeared in a Cherokee County courtroom on Tuesday and coldly recounted how he committed the crime. Brunn said after he molested the child, he slashed the girl’s throat with a knife and beat her in the head with her own roller skate. Brunn wrapped the girl’s body and dumped her in a trash compactor.
“I never had an idea of killing a child in my life … I was just so terrified and scared. I didn’t want her to tell her mom and dad on me and I just … I cut her,” Brunn said. Source
Brunn pleaded guilty to murder and child molestation charges, among other offenses. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Brunn said he wrote a note and taped it to the trash bin, directing police to the child’s body inside the trash compactor. But it took another 3 days before the body was found. Police matched Brunn’s handwriting with the handwriting on the note.
The case attracted national attention, and the Canton police department’s investigative procedures were scrutinized in the wake of the girl’s death. Canton police initially thought the 7-year-old was a runaway.
Thursday, Canton police Chief Jeff Lance resigned after an investigative report found that his police department violated its own policies.
Source: WSBTV
Coward
This was such a tragic and heartbreaking story.
Prayers for both families
Well he saved the taxpayers a lifetime of paying for his miserable existence.
I wonder if he was killed
Too bad he didn’t commit suicide before he raped and murdered that baby.
Punk azz.
He had serious mental issues, but he still had a shred of human decency in him to leave that note. It’s too bad the Canton police didn’t know what they were doing. I mean, how hard is it to find a note that say “she’s in here”?
Well…I guess he knew where he was meant to be….straight to HELL! My prayers go to the little girl’s family…the story was just heartbreaking…
BigCityGirl says:
Well…I guess he knew where he was meant to be….straight to HELL!
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And he waited for his chance to say he was sorry to Jorelys’s parents before he took his own life. I used to work in a boy’s jail. I know how easy it is to take your own life in jail.
Sandra, I read what he did to her. It was HORRIBLE! He “claimed” he didn’t have sex with her (yeah right). I feel he took the easy way out.
I was glad he apologized to her fam
@ Daisy…who CARES if he was killed? Georgia has the death penalty and he shoud have receieved it.
This was an innocent child. He chose to take that life. Read the details on the case. He lured he in by telling her that he had one of her skates and then BEAT her in the head with it.
As a parent I wouldn’t thin his cowardice was sufficient.
I know that you want to have children from your posts and you will learn that unconditional love when you have a child.
Not trying to come at you. You’re one of the posters on here that would love everything to be sunny and like a great summer day. Life don’t work like that.
Someone mess with my baby I’m going for blood.
A lynching would have been sufficient.
Killing yourself is the EASY way out…he definitely had some mental issues…it was ok to molest her..but then you kill her so she won’t tell her parents? WOW…glad her parents/relatives don’t have to relive the horror via a trial…
Yeah, I couldn’t care less about an apology. It doesn’t undo the sick things he did to her and it doesn’t restore or replace her life.
Oh and @ Sandra…fluck leaving a suicide note. He said he was “sorry”? Big deal? He MURDERED their child. Fluck an apology.
@Roc PAUSE I didn’t say I “cared” or anybody should “CARE” if he was killed I just asked a simple question #thatisall
Apologies matter to some people even in murder cases. I have heard plenty of victims families comment on how they did not even receive an apology. Different strokes for different folks.
he is a coward,.. wish he would have spent his time in jail, still no justice for the family
@ Daisy I agree.. sometimes being the families just wanna know.. do you even care that you took our loved one’s life. Are you even sorry? Yeah we know you did what you did.. but are you that cold hearted that after its all said and done.. you still acting like nothing went down. I think he is still an azz and I hate the dealth penalty. I think thats an easy way out. Letting these murders rot in jail is the best punishment. Living everyday knowing the world is moving with out them would help.. them knowing that that is where they will take their last breath would be great. I was never against the death penalty
* I was never FOR the death penalty ( typo) lol
I felt some kinda way when they took Troy Davis’ life. I still wasnt convinced that he did it.
@ Roc: he didn’t leave a suicide note. If you’d read my post you would know that he left a note telling the police where her body was. But it still took them 3 days to find her. I’m just saying he didn’t have to leave the note, but he did because of his conscience.
Ha! Some of you must not know any “lifers” or “long timers”. A person spending the rest of their life or most of their life in prison isn’t as horrible as people think. Especially not for a guilty person. People adapt to prison. They have a lot of freedoms there. They can take classes, work jobs, learn trades, workout,go outside, stay inside, get visits, have pen pals, see family and friends. They can even get their favorite foods. They can also have sex. It’s a frickin camp.
Yeah but everything you named aint too much of nothing compared to your freedom. They never really get to see their real family. If they do they are having sex with men… and lets be honest.. I dont care how they accomodate you.. that will never compare to being able to do what you want when you want. They are being told when to take classes, when to work their jobs.. when to see their family and friends. On top of that.. its more dangerous to be in jail then out of jail. Plus, speaking from a Bible perspective, I dont think we should have the right to say when someone’s life should end.. but it does say that everyone has to obey the lwas of the land.. so jail is still cool with me.
*laws
Oh wow! That was fast. I wonder if he was murdered and made to look like a suicide.
Oh yeah, they can also still get drunk and/or high.
Sandra, he’s still not some upstanding citizen. He had thoughts about doing that stuff well before he acted on it. If he wanted to do something admirable, then he should have found a way to slit his own throat before he hurt Jorelys or anyone else.
@MsKay
See comments #5 and 13 
Good riddance, trash! He didn’t deserve to live and he knew it!
@Daisy I remember that story about the girl speeding and killing that family. That was horrible.
Aryanna, you are thinking of people who actually care about their freedom and try to avoid losing it. And even in what we know as “freedom” we are told what jobs we can work etc. Nobody really gets to do what they want, when, where and how. Not for real. So to be put into a prison isn’t too much different and doesn’t take too long to adapt to. In many cases, people live better incarcerated than when they were free. Some people don’t care what gender they sex as long as they get it and some prisons allow conjugal visits. Please.
We were thinking alike @Daisy.
Oh wow, @Roc, I agree he should have received the death penalty. I often wonder what constitutes a person receiving the death penalty vs life in prison. This was one of those cases that I just KNEW he would but then I read he didn’t.
@Christ Please! If people went in those jails and asked the inmates would they rather be on the outside vs staying in their “adapted home”.. They will trade that shyt with the quickness. I dont wanna hear that bullshyt. They adapt to it be/c they have no other choice… but it still aint like having your freedom.. Fuxx outta here.
Lol@Aryanna getting mad. Why don’t you ask someone? Why do you think people that actually get out go back so much or quickly? You think it’s because they hate it so much? If jail/loss of “freedom” was really so horrible then there’d be no repeat offenders. You can stay.
LOL @Christi confusing me with getting mad vs lighting her axx up. People go in and out of jail so much for the same reason they commit sin. The consequence doesnt feel too good.. but they have become addicted to whatever sin they are doing. Same reason ppl do drugs.. it feels good doing it.. but the after math and them withdrawls that u get from it ,aint too fun. My uncle has been to jail at least 6 or 7 times.. I know for a fact.. he just wont do right.. but everytime he in there.. he looking stupid be/c he is missing out on his kids life… and I tell you what. if jail is so fun.. ask them repeat offenders why when the police on their azz, why do they run like hell. or why everybody snitching? cuz they tryna knock that time down…. why do majority of them hang themselves? Cuz that shyt aint that fun despite how u tryna make it… roll over and shut it down.
@ Sandra…you are right. I read your post and got things confused with another commenter and for that I humbly apologize.
As for everything I said, he took the COWARDS way out. Could care less less if he killed himself or someone else did it. I will stand that by that until the day the Good Lord Brings Me Home.
@ Daisy…Give me a kissshhhhh you were one of the first to welcome me in. I don’t ever want beef with anyone
*scrolls comments* I don’t see where anybody ever disagreed with the coward comment @Roc even if they did you are right to stand by your opinion regardless just like everybody else. Don’t see where anybody said they cared if he killed himself either
No beef here either ijs
Hopefully the apology meant something to her family. Prayers for her fam and that this beautiful child RIP. i agree that he was a coward who took the easy way out. sick MF
Anybody that will harm, molest, then murder a defenseless child does not deserve to be on this earth in my opinion! R.I.P. Babygirl.
This man did not kill himself #trust, they have to say this so no lawsuit could be filed by his family. Smh. Dont believe these liars, prisoners day all day in pruson and u never hear about it. Proven fact, they say they kilked themselves, which is a lie then the prison collect the money on the inmates, then caseclosed
Yeah I dont think it was suicide either…….
@Finding the note 3 days later…
In my honest opinion & I HATE to go there but h@ll I think race played a factor in how they handled the case. I mean I havent seen that many runaway 7 year olds in the news.
Aryanna says:
LOL @Christi confusing me with getting mad vs lighting her axx up.
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I agree no matter who say what I don’t give a d@mn how you put it NO one wants to do any kind of time no matter how they adapt. Yes, we in the “free” world are told what time to go to work, class etc but damn*t when we are done with that for the day we do as we please. Aint no way in the h*ll anyone going to make me think otherwise that jail is just a walk in the park and cons love it so much. One of the reasons many go back is because once they are released people still try to hold their crimes against them instead of understanding they’ve paid their debt to society and giving them a second chance. If jail is such an “ease” Christi go trade places with someone in there and see how fast they knock your arse down trying to get in your shoes
If only he’d done this December 1st. I hope he rots in hell.
THIS Doesn’t SHOCK ME Though as far as HIM Being GONE…
Now the Suicide Thing —-> Yeah RIGHT (WHATEVER Though…)
199 stab wounds in the back, yep that’s suicide.
Morning EVERYBODY!
Sandra Rose says: He had serious mental issues, but he still had a shred of human decency in him to leave that note. It’s too bad the Canton police didn’t know what they were doing. I mean, how hard is it to find a note that say “she’s in here”?
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she was latino, so they really didn’t give a f***…..
Daisy says: Sandra I always wanted somebody to interview the driver who caused the hit and run accident on Camp Creek. I always felt bad for her (and the victims) it was truly an accident if only she didn’t run and try to hide. I know she was scared and her mother bless her heart failed her as well. Heartbreaking
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that broad had numerous traffic citations, in different states, for speeding and reckless driving. that’s why they threw the book at her. i also fault her mother, who should have done the right thing, as painful as it may be, and took her straight to jail. she would have probably gotten less time.
What does him leaving a note as to where her body was have to do with anything, oh I get it, they would’ve discovered her dead body earlier…mmmkay…I just would’ve wanted him to get sodomized a few times before getting his head bashed in
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Roc says: This was an innocent child. He chose to take that life. Read the details on the case. He lured he in by telling her that he had one of her skates and then BEAT her in the head with it.
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it sent chills through my spine when he said something like “when she was finished, she just asked if she could go home. then i cut her.” i was like, finshed what?? he said he didn’t rape her but he did, or made her do, something. and all she wanted was her mom. i can’t IMAGINE what goes through the mind of a child in a situation like that. then to slit her throat and she doesn’t die so you have to bash her head in. i hope the thoughts haunted him and drove him to take his life.
jorelys’ mother says she feels good about it that he’s gone so i’m happy that she’s happy.
NaijaGal says:
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Ms.kaylamomma says:
We were thinking alike @Daisy.
Oh wow, @Roc, I agree he should have received the death penalty. I often wonder what constitutes a person receiving the death penalty vs life in prison. This was one of those cases that I just KNEW he would but then I read he didn’t.
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there are usually some other conditions of the crime or the person’s criminal history that have to meet. unfortunately, we can’t put every child rapist to death because prosecution, incarceration, and defense (for appeals) is expensive and we don’t have that many death penalty defense attorneys in georgia. there may be a lawsuit about this coming up soon.
He didn’t receive the death penalty b/c there was no trial…he plead guilty…had the prosecution refused his plea, then they would have taken it to trial where they could request the death penalty as a sentence…I’m sure they decided the cost of trials and such wasn’t worth it
I heard this, shortly after I read about the police chief resigning. This ass wipes was treating the investigation like she was a runaway. who knows…crucial time was probably lost. She’s seven years old, a baby…it should always be treated as a crime when a child goes missing. SMH
This fool is DISGUSTING, I think they did MERK his a$$ in jail, and the C.O, judges and everyone in law enforcement turned a blind eye to it.
I hate him!
Personally I think it was made to look like a “suicide”. You know inmates don’t take to kindly to child molesters or child predators. What he did to that poor defenseless child is unimaginable. He better be glad it wasn’t my young cub. Momma lioness don’t play!!!
COWARD.. BASTARD…
he actually was not in the general population yet. he was in the pre-prison system where he had a room to himself, was supposedly constantly monitored, and was being classified in preparation to go to prison. no other inmates had access to him. if he was murdered, it was by a jailer.
I FEEL NOT ONE FUKN OUNCE OF COMPASION FOR THIS MONSTER.. FUKN BASTARD IM SURE THEY MURDER HIS AZZ IN PRISON CHILD KILLER AND MOLESTOR..
I BET HE WAS ASKING FOR HIS MOMMY.. #PISSD
Starr says:
I heard this, shortly after I read about the police chief resigning. This ass wipes was treating the investigation like she was a runaway. who knows…crucial time was probably lost. She’s seven years old, a baby…it should always be treated as a crime when a child goes missing. SMH
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I don’t like Dr. Drew. He should stick to Celebrity Rehab. Last night on his show, his first segment was about missing (minorities) and how they don’t get any shine. Most think when a non white is missing they ran away. He does not interview well, and he was laughing. Most ppl who go missing are not taken seriously by the authorities.
This fool did not kill himself
The Hispanic mob got that azz in less than 48hrs. They were waiting on him and I can’t say I blame them 
RIP Baby Girl!
Satan has recruited another one…. wear the full armour of God..we at war for our souls mane!!!!!
Fvck him! fvckin low life SCUM
Good riddance! I’m glad this piece of trash did us taxpayers a favor and took himself out, otherwise we would be stuck paying for this scum bag waiting on death row and waiting $$$ appealing and what not. Have a nice ETERNITY in HELL!!!!