Crime & Safety

Brunn Failed Polygraph, Lied to Police

A taped interview with the convicted killer a day before his arrest shows a man getting tangled up in his own lies.

A day before and charged with the brutal killing of a seven-year-old girl, agreed to a polygraph, and failed, according to a report on 11Alive.

The police began closing in on him as the main suspect.

Jorelys Rivera, a Canton Elementary first-grader, was  where she lived.

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Authorities  in a compacting Dumpster from the complex on Dec. 5. Brunn had  the Dumpster.

Earlier this month, r as part of a deal that included a detailed confession and a sentence of life without parole.

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Two days later .

But in the Dec. 6 interview with the GBI a day after Jorelys' body was found, he seemed calm and just kept telling authorities he didn't know anything about the child's death.

"Did you cause the death of that girl?" the agent asks. Brunn repeatedly is heard saying "no."

Brunn started the interview by admitting he'd lied earlier about whether he'd run the trash compactor where the child's body was found. 

"I should have just told the truth straight up," Brunn tells a GBI agent. "But I didn't. I was scared." 

Toward the end of the interview, Brunn—caught several times in a lie—starts to fidget and play with his cell phone.

Eventually Brunn agreed to allow a GBI examiner to give him a polygraph.

That test gave detectives their strongest indication that Brunn was their man.

BRUNN FAMILY REQUESTS PRIVACY

At the request of Brunn's family, Banister Funeral Home in Dahlonega would not release details of any planned memorials, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.


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