Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens issued the following statement.
Hinds County District Attorney Jody E. Owens, II, announced today that Victoria Cox, co-defendant in the Daniel Wayne Callihan case, was sentenced for her role in the June 2024 murder and kidnapping that spanned Louisiana and Mississippi.
Cox aided convicted murderer and kidnapper Daniel Wayne Callihan in the abduction of two young sisters and the murder of one. Callihan picked up Cox while driving to Mississippi after killing the girls’ mother, 35-year-old Callie Brunett, inside her Loranger, Louisiana home. Federal investigators later confirmed that both Callihan and Cox sexually assaulted the six-year-old survivor before the younger child was killed.
Cox pled guilty to one count of Second-Degree Murder and one count of Kidnapping. She was sentenced to 40 years for Second-Degree Murder and 25 years for Kidnapping, with the sentences to run concurrently in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. “While nothing can undo the horror these children endured, today’s plea ensures that Victoria Cox will spend the next four decades behind bars for her role in this unimaginable crime,” said District Attorney Jody E. Owens, II. “Cox’s sentence reflects our commitment to protecting children and ensuring predators and their accomplices never walk free again. We thank the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation for their thorough and dedicated work in bringing this case to justice.”
This sentencing marks the last chapter in the ongoing multi-jurisdictional prosecution involving federal charges in Louisiana, state charges in Louisiana, and state charges in Mississippi. Callihan, the principal defendant, was sentenced in Mississippi to three life sentences plus 60 years, which run consecutively to his two Louisiana life sentences, ensuring he will never walk free again.
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16 comments:
She got off easy! I can’t imagine a crime worse than this. Both defendants should have been tortured to death. I can’t imagine what those children went through.
What kinda drugs would cause a person to do these things to another human being & children. When Cox gets to prison, I'm sure she will be in the company of women who have children of their own...I bet she won't last long in that environment...
Sick trash!
Plea bargaining got out of hand a long time ago. This case is a perfect example.
i did it but i dint do it,.............typical guilty plea.
@6:57 PM, what kind if drugs? Why, the kind of drugs some of the readership here want to legalize so there won't be so much crime.
We are witnessing the battle between good and evil play out right in front of our eyes. Most people don’t want to accept that, but it just gets worse day by day.
The system is self-sustaining....have to have work for all the lawyers everyone seems to think we need. Also, have to justify all the correctional apparatus. In days of old, a rope or bullet saved many millions of dollars.
Should've made the sentences to be run consecutively.
We’ve already legalized drugs (coffee, alcohol, Xanax, etc.); the debate is about which others to legalize.
The good needs to get a louder more aggressive voice. Bad things happen when good people do nothing.
Interesting that even in her allocution that she kept minimizing her part in this heinous crime almost like she can't even admit to herself what she did.
To all of those that think she need a quick death rather than 40 years as a guest of the State, I agree from a fiscal perspective. However, living in a prison for the rest of her life is about the most cruel punishment that I can imagine. I hope that her years in prison are long and thoroughly degrading.
Firing squad - pick me, pick me.
They are both still breathing so imo they got away with this evil.
What about the molestaion charge? if she only plead to murder and kidnapping, she won't have to register as a sex offender. Jody Owens is just trying to get his reputation in a good light for the guilty plea - so he threw her a bone, I guess
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