JORELYS RIVERA - 7 yo - Canton/ Atlanta GA

twinkletoes wrote:I don't buy the suicide. Georgia men don't like child rapist and murderers.

That's a good point. But don't they usually say if they were killed by other inmates. I know they published when Dahmer was killed in prison. I hope Brunn suffered like he did to the little girl.

Autopsy confirms Georgia child-murderer hung himself

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Atlanta (CNN) -- Autopsy results released Friday revealed that Ryan Brunn, the Georgia man who this week admitted murdering a 7-year-old girl, committed suicide by hanging himself in a prison cell, a state agency said.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, in a news release, said the autopsy indicated that Brunn died of "ligature hanging and the manner of death (was) suicide."

The 20-year-old hung himself with his sweatshirt, investigators determined. A medical examiner didn't find any "other significant trauma on Brunn's body."

"The ongoing investigation by agents ... has not uncovered any evidence to indicate Brunn's death was anything other than a suicide," the state investigative bureau said.

Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kristen Stancil had said that Brunn was found unresponsive at 4:15 p.m. Thursday in his cell at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, and was pronounced dead at a hospital at 5:37 p.m.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/20/justice/georgia-murderer-suicide/index.html

How tragic that this monster died with such little pain. He should have experienced at least all the pain and suffering he pummeled on sweet Jorelys body. RIP sweet little girl. At least the monster is suffering in hell and she is singing with the angels.

Well said bj. BTW have you checked you PM Mailbox lately?

ATLANTA -- The GBI conducted an interview with Ryan Brunn just one day after the discovery of Jorelys Rivera's body. It was December 6, 2011-- the day after investigators had found the body of Jorelys Rivera. The seven year old girl had been abducted and murdered four days earlier.

Brunn was an employee at the apartment complex in Canton where the girl lived. At this point he was only a potential suspect.

But the interview became a turning point in the investigation. 11Alive News obtained a copy of the video from the GBI after submitting a request under the state Open Records Act.

Brunn started the interview by admitting he'd lied to a detective a day earlier-- about whether he'd run a trash compactor where the child's body was found. "I should have just told the truth straight up," Brunn tells a GBI agent during a videotaped interview. "But I didn't. I was scared."

During this interview, Brunn was denying his involvement in the girl's murder, compounding the lies, and raising his profile as a murder suspect.

"Did you cause the death of that girl?" the agent asks. Brunn repeatedly is heard answering "no" to variations of that question.

Even though Brunn knew he was lying, he agreed to allow a GBI examiner to fit him with a polygraph.

The interview would have been inadmissable in court. But the polygraph gave detectives their strongest indication that Brunn was their suspect.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Peter Ash says Brunn may have agreed to the polygraph for a reason.

"It's not that they just want to get caught," Ash said of some criminal suspects. "I mean consciously they may think, I want to get away with this. But unconsciously or out of their awareness, they may be feeling guilty and may think that they ought to be caught."

Brunn's story began to unravel at the end of the polygraph. He begins to nervously check his cell phone. Under questioning, Brunn admits he smoked marijuana shortly before this interview.

And then the examiner tells Brunn that the polygraph showed he was lying.

"Something is bothering you. It's written all over face," the agent says. "Nothing is bothering me," Brunn answers. "I'm not bothered at all. I'm not bothered at all."

During interviews with police, Brunn denied he'd ever been accused of a crime against children. But at the conclusion of this interview, police remind him of a molestation allegation years earlier in Virginia.

"What if they have found a record of it?" the agent asks Brunn. "They don't" have a record, Brunn answers.

"Yes," the agent responds.

"Of what?" Brunn asks.

"You know what I'm talking about," the agent answers.\

"No, I don't," answers Brunn.

"In Virginia." The agent reminds Brunn of an allegation made against him when he lived in Virginia years earlier. Brunn relents.

"Why did you lie about that?" the agent asks.

"I really didn't think it was on my record," Brunn answers.

Cornered, Brunn admits to another lie, and the GBI focused its murder investigation on him. Brunn was arrested the following day. Eleven days later in court, Brunn would admit that he lied throughout the interview, admitting he was Jorelys Rivera's killer.

Brunn denied guilt for eleven more days, until his courtroom confession January 17th. Two days later, Brunn committed suicide in a prison cell.

http://www.11alive.com/News/Crime/224312/445/Jorelys-Rivera--How-Ryan-Brunn-became-a-murder-suspect

GBI releases Ryan Brunn's confession tape

Posted: Feb 08, 2012 7:43 AM CST
Updated: Feb 08, 2012 7:43 AM CST

Atlanta, GA (WXIA) - When Ryan Brunn pleaded guilty to the murder of seven-year-old Jorelys Rivera, he told the court in detail how he abducted and killed her.

Almost immediately after that plea, Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Dustin Hamby and Brian Whidby spent more than two hours picking Brunn's brain, trying to learn as much as they could about him, to help them in future cases.

After several minutes of repeated questions and coaxing Ryan Brunn finally admitted that he had fondled children before he killed Jorelys Rivera.

"I guess I did it more than one time. I guess I did it a few times but it wasn't in the same day."

But what made him take the giant leap from fondling a child to molesting and brutally killing Jorelys? Could it have been something in his past?

"I wasn't molested, no. You sure about that? I'm pretty sure that I can recall I wasn't."

He said he he was always attracted to children and started looking at child porn on the Internet about a year ago when he lived with his mother in Dahlonega. But he said he never acted out, he never had sexual intentions until one moment in time on December 2nd, the day he coaxed Jorelys into a vacant apartment by stealing her roller blade.

"When I seen her skate down on the ground I thought about it that day. I didn't never think nothing like that before."

The only remorse he showed in the interview was for himself. One of his regrets was not being able to watch the Super Bowl.

"I regret everything I did. I wish I was still working and I wish I could watch the Giants win the Super Bowl, but I guess I'm not going to do that."

When the interview was over, Brunn uttered these now ominous words,"You all wanna come see me in prison? Feel free."

The interview took place on January 17, 2012. Two days later Ryan Brunn was found dead in his cell at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison. He hanged himself. There was no indication in the interview that he had any suicidal tendencies.

http://www.wltz.com/story/16755728/gbi-releases-tape

The mother of a 7-year-old Canton girl who was brutally murdered in Dec. 2011 is filing a lawsuit.

Jorelys Rivera was sexually assaulted and
murdered by Ryan Brunn, a maintenance man at apartment complex where the
Rivera's lived.

On Thursday, Joselinne Rivera filed suit
against the owner of the apartment complex, River Ridge at Canton,
L.P. and the management company, McCormack Baron Ragan Management
Services, Inc.

The lawsuit alleges the apartment complex was
negligent in hiring Brunn to work in the complex because they knew, or
should have known, that Brunn had a history of pedophilia and child
sexual assault.

"Brunn was a predator who should never have
been hired to work in an apartment community, particularly one with
young children," said attorney Lloyd N. Bell, an attorney in Atlanta,
Georgia, who represents Ms. Rivera. "We believe the apartment complex
knew that Ryan Brunn had a history of pedophilia and child sexual
assault before they hired him. We also believe that Brunn had a close
personal relationship with the property manager and leasing agent. They
chose to look the other way and hired Brunn for a job that gave him
direct access to children.


"Young Jorelys was tortured and suffered a
horrific death as a result of their negligence. We are determined to
hold the complex accountable for their actions and obtain justice for
Jorelys and her family. We are also hopeful this lawsuit will motivate
other apartment owners around the country to review their hiring
practices and procedures to help protect other families from
experiencing a similar tragedy."

Brunn was hired by River Ridge at Canton apartments in November of 2011.

About three and a half weeks after he was
hired, Brunn lured Jorelys from the complex playground with one of her
roller skates into a vacant apartment.

Brunn admitted in court to sexually assaulting and beating the young girl to death and putting her body in a trash compactor.


Brunn was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.


The day Brunn was transported to the Jackson
Detention Center in Jackson, Georgia, he committed suicide by hanging
himself with a prison sweatshirt.
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/16922598/mother-of-murdered-canton-girl-files-lawsuit

If these accusations from Jory's attorney are true. guess who now owns the River Ridge Apartment Complex?

More power to her, I say. You wouldn't believe the background checks and drug tests I had to go through for my recent hire. If they ignored the results they deserve to financially spanked severely.

POSTED: Monday, Apr. 30, 2012
A community slowly heals after 7-year-old's murder
By JEFFRY SCOTT - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ATLANTA - Some of the signs are subtle that life is getting back to normal in the town of Canton, like the childish chalk drawings on the sidewalk beside the playground where 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera was last seen before she was murdered last December.

Along with the stick figures of animals and fish are the words "I love my brother and mom." In the afternoons children are back in the playground, too. There, the difference isn't as subtle.

"The children used to be out there by themselves but now they're always with their parents or an adult," says Sybonae Henry, a mother of three who lives in the back of the River Ridge at Canton apartment complex.

"If your child is out playing somebody will come up and say 'where's your mom?' " she says. "It's like the whole complex is watching out for them."

People in this Cherokee County town rocked by Rivera's death and its aftermath - Canton police chief Jeff Lance was forced to resign; the man who pleaded guilty to her murder, Ryan Brunn, committed suicide in prison - say one of the most emphatic forces helping the city put the horror behind is the girl's mother, Joseline Rivera.

Rivera, who last February filed suit against the apartment's owners for her daughter's death, has been instrumental in getting funding for a community program called radKIDS to educate children, and parents, against predators. She's done that while dealing with grief those who know her say is devastating.

"She's lost 50 pounds since December," says Canton Police Sgt. Stacy Baily. "She is still so distraught, but she is an amazing woman. This city would not be recovering as fast as it is without her."

Rivera declined to be interviewed. But, her friends and city officials say, were it not for her strength and stepping forward after her daughter's death, the radKIDS program - which the police department was considering before Rivera's murder - might not yet be funded.

Canton Police Chief Todd VandeZande said when he pitched the program to the Canton City Council in January "they thought about it for about 10 minutes, and gave us $5,000." Businesses have donated additional thousands of dollars to the police and the YMCA, which hosts the program.

Joseline Rivera was one of the first to go through the program last February with her 4-year-old daughter."Part of the class is to play out what a predator might do, so, watching that she had to be thinking of Jorelys," VandeZande said. "But she went through and I thought was amazingly stoic."

The Canton Police Department was heavily criticized for what many considered a slow-footed response to Jorelys' disappearance.

But Randy Richardson, a minister with Changed 2 Ministries who works closely with the Hispanic community in Canton said there was never a feeling in the community that the police didn't respond as quickly as they would have if the missing child had not been Hispanic.

"The Hispanic community thought the police did everything they could," Richardson said.

An outside investigation determined if Canton Police had responded quicker they could not have saved Jorelys Rivera's life. But it also found the department made mistakes that next time could cost a life, and that cost Chief Jeff Lance his job.

VandeZande said Friday that his department has adopted new procedures to prevent repeating the mistakes in the Rivera investigation, which included searchers discovering blood in an abandoned apartment where she was killed, but not reporting it for at least 24 hours.

"We now have a standardized check list that we follow that verifies who took what information and what information needs to be collected," said VandeZande who, along with several other officers is attending a two-day seminar this week in Atlanta on how to handle missing person's cases.

He said thinks the city is getting back to normal five months later, but it will take time for his department and its force of 43 sworn officers.

"People have said terrible things to them since this happened," VandeZande said. "Before her death, I would say department morale was good. But, now, I wouldn't say that. I have the sense some people are looking for other options."

He said it's been tough for him personally, to the point it's hard to return to the scene of the crime, the apartment complex. "To tell you the truth, when I do, it feels like a big cemetery to me," said VandeZande.

Residents say police seem to be making more frequent patrols, but VandeZande said they're no more frequent now than they were the day before Rivera was killed.

"They just notice us more now," he said.

John Hicks, branch executive for the YMCA, which hosts the RadKIDS program, said Rivera's death was a "tragedy and wake-up call" for the community. "Parents said 'wow' I need to watch out for my kids."

Mayor Gene Hobgood said he thinks "it's settling down quite a bit," and with programs such as RadKids, "we're getting back to a sense of normalcy." For the owners of the apartment complex, the recovery is farther off.

About 50 residents moved out of River Ridge since the murder, and last week there were about 40 more vacant apartments than there were last November. Still, said resident Nancy Hudgins, who helped search for Jorelys Rivera the Friday she disappeared, the sting of the loss and the fear that went with it, seem to be subsiding.

"They had an Easter egg hunt here this year, and we had a great time," she said. "All the kids were outside playing."

Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/04/30/2502681/a-community-slowly-heals-after.html#storylink=cpy

CANTON, Ga. -- The mother of Jorelys Rivera,
the 7-year-old girl murdered at her Canton apartment complex late last
year, was arrested Monday after a dispute with her partner.



Joselinne Rivera-Ruiz (above, left) and her girlfriend Maria Americano were taken
into custody after getting into a fight at their Walden Crossing Drive home.

According to the incident report, Americano's daughter told police
Ruiz and Americano got into a physical fight. The daughter said she
locked herself and Ruiz's 1- and 4-year-old daughters in a bedroom and called 911.

Americano's daughter told police the two women had a history of fighting and that her mother was usually the aggressor.

Ruiz and Americano were arrested and charged with battery and cruelty to children.
http://www.11alive.com/News/Crime/241683/445/Mother-of-Jorelys-Rivera-arrested-after-domestic-dispute

i guess money didnt buy her happiness.

flash0115 wrote:i guess money didnt buy her happiness.

---Judging by the shiner under her left eye I am guessing she took a licking from her 'hubby".
Ooops! My bad. I didn't mean that, that way....

my thoughts exactly! lol!

Community remembers Jorelys Rivera one year later

Posted: 8:39 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012
By David Wickert, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Two-year-old Alanis Torres dries the tears of her mother Joselinne Rivera-Ruiz during a candlelight vigil to celebrate the life of her sister Jorelys Rivera in Canton on Sunday, Dec 2, 2012. The 7-year-old was sexually assaulted, stabbed and beaten to death a year ago.

It was a brutal crime that shocked Canton and reverberated far beyond this Cherokee County community: Last Dec. 2, 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera was raped, beaten and stabbed to death, her body dumped in a trash bin.

On Sunday, exactly a year later, more than 100 people gathered to celebrate her life, not to dwell upon her death. Clutching candles, sometimes shedding tears, they remembered her with words, music and photographs. And they spoke of their hope of seeing her again.

“Even though Jorelys is not with us right now, we cannot see her, she is in an eternal place,” said Pastor Eloisa Gonzalez of Mt. Zion Church.

Jorelys became a household name for the wrong reasons last December. She was playing with friends at the River Ridge apartments, where she lived, when she left to get a drink and never returned.

Police searched for nearly three days before finding her body in a trash compactor at the apartment complex.

The weeks that followed brought a series of events — sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes outrageous — that rattled the community. Her funeral featured doves, stuffed animals and a small white coffin decorated with pink flowers.

Ryan Brunn, a 20-year-old maintenance man who lived at the apartment complex, was arrested and pleaded guilty to murder, child molestation and other charges. Facing life behind bars without parole, he later committed suicide in prison.

An investigation of the Canton Police Department portrayed a bungled search for Jorelys in the first 48 hours after she went missing. Police Chief Jeff Lance subsequently resigned.

For weeks the headlines kept coming. But Canton has begun to heal and Jorelys’ mother, Joselinne Rivera, has played a key role. She helped secure funding for a new police department program to educate children and parents about predators. The YMCA that hosts that program also hosted Sunday night’s candlelight vigil.

“She has never once asked for anything for herself,” said Amy Turcotte, director of development at Goshen Valley Boys Ranch, a foster care facility for abused and neglected young men.

Since Jorelys’ death, the police department has revamped the way it responds to child abductions, according to new Chief Robert Merchant.

“We’re better off for it,” Merchant said. “I think the community is better for it, too.”

After the vigil, Joselinne Rivera said the past year had been hard. But she takes strength from her two surviving daughters. And she said the community has treated her well. During the candlelight vigil, her 2-year-old daughter Alanis Torres wiped her mother’s tears.

As for Jorelys, she wants people “just to remember that she was a bright, outgoing young girl.”

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/community-remembers-jorelys-rivera-one-year-later/nTLTG/