Did Mickey Shunick Shocking Details Make...

The suspect in the Mickey Shunick disappearance may have "confessed" to abducting and murdering the Louisiana anthropology student. At least that's what can be gathered from some of the newest details released in the media. District Attorney Keith Stutes released court filings in the case against Brandon Scott Lavergne. While the man accused of killing Mickey "Michaela" Shunick and Lisa Pate pleaded 'not guilty,' it seems that some new details reveal that the man may have also confessed to the crimes at one point. That's not the only detail released to the public. It seems that this Lavergne character is a total creep (as if you didn't already suspect as much).

Not only did officials find several women's IDs in the home inhabited by Lavergne, they found "bloodied images" that he had taken of himself. The filing made by Stutes also indicates that Lavergne had "written or recorded a confession," voluntarily. He had made statements "relevant to the Pate case" to at least three people, and in the case of Mickey Shunick he allegedly made confessional-like statements to at least 13 people. Some of this large group of people is made up of his family members.

It's also revealed that Lavergne attempted to bribe a DMV official to get a lisence that didn't disclose his status as a registered sex offender. He also tried to file a false insurance claim on the truck that he, himself, destroyed. There is also mention of at least 36 different warrants pertaining to the case of Mickey Shunick and Lavergne's potential involvement. It would be nice to see all of these details in hard copy, but who knows when (or if) that will ever take place.

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Chelsea Hoffman Aug 4, 2012, 9:27pm UTC

The "did" in the title is a total mistake. Ugh!

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burt bastrop Aug 5, 2012, 10:39am UTC

Listen, if you want to be a journalist, you need to gather facts and not make broad assumptions the way you do in these articles. You're using delicate information about a murder trial. Also, the girl's name is Michaela. Mickey is the the nickname. That's what goes in quotation marks. I've read a few of your articles, and some of the things you write are completely inane and misleading. You suck.

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burt bastrop Aug 5, 2012, 10:42am UTC

Jesus Christ. I just realized you called yourself a "crime analyst." That's terrifying.

Chelsea Hoffman Aug 5, 2012, 10:45am UTC

my editor switched michaela "Mickey" Shunick to what it is written above. I do not know why, but since you are childish enough to attack and degrade based on one article and no knowledge of my extensive coverage of this case, I'll allow you to have your fun.

0_o

At any rate. You're only showing yourself to be a bully and a jerk. I'm sure somewhere and somehow you'd be considered useful. Just not here. Sorry.

yvonne hyatt Aug 6, 2012, 4:21pm UTC

brandon brute needs to die and leave people alone...... i hate his stinking guts.

yvonne hyatt Aug 6, 2012, 4:25pm UTC

let chelsea say what she wants to about brandon brute. he needs no defending of any kind. lets hope he has a long stinking torturous death ahead of him. rip mickey shunick.

Chelsea Hoffman Aug 6, 2012, 4:54pm UTC

some people support serial predators, Yvonne. Burt appears to be one of those people :( sad.

Michael Young Aug 7, 2012, 2:50am UTC

Actually Burt is right. I've read a couple of your screeds... and you do suck... a lot... sorry :(

Chelsea Hoffman Aug 7, 2012, 9:15am UTC

see above statement -- I've no respect for people who support rapists and serial predators. ;)

mike john Aug 9, 2012, 6:07pm UTC

Who is supporting rapists? They just say you are not a good journalist. I have to agree. Was that you that wrote micheala looks like a healthy young women that probably new a thing or two about self defense? how could you possibly deduce that she "probably" new self defense? Or that she was "healthy"? From pictures? Thats not journalism, thats wild speculation. And please And your supporter sounds like a real sadistic lowlife. She talks(writes) like lavergne behaves. And please explain who is supporting rapists here? that is as far fetched as the self defense speculation.i guess you just deduced the "probability" that if someone critisizes you, they are evil. I will not look to you or this site for news. Just awful.

Chelsea Hoffman Aug 9, 2012, 8:52pm UTC

I never claimed to be a journalist -- that's your mistake. ;)

Chelsea Hoffman Aug 9, 2012, 8:53pm UTC

and it's knew, not new... 0_o we learn the difference between those two words before the fourth grade!

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