LORANGER — Daniel Callihan was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences on Friday after pleading guilty to the murder of a Loranger woman and her daughter in state court. 

Callihan pleaded guilty to the two first-degree murder counts more than a month after he pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping resulting in death and transportation of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activities charges. 

Callihan was found guilty of killing Callie Brunnett in Tangipahoa Parish and kidnapping her two daughters. According to prosecutors, he stabbed Brunnett 50 times before taking the girls to Hinds County, Mississippi, where 4-year-old Erin Brunnett was found dead.

Brunnett's 6-year-old daughter was later found and reunited with her family in Louisiana. Over the course of the investigation, it wa

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