Just days after admitting to his crimes against 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera, the 20 year old maintenance man has been found dead in his jail cell.

Ryan Brunn, an apartment groundskeeper, was convicted of molesting and murdering the 7-year-old Canton girl two days ago, and reports are that he committed suicide Thursday (January 19, 2012), two days after he was sentenced in Cherokee County to spend life in prison without parole.

Jorelys disappeared December 2, 2011, when she took a break from playing at the apartment complex on River Ridge Drive. She reportedly told other children at the playground that she was going inside to get drinks, but never returned.

Brunn pleaded guilty Tuesday to enticing the young girl into a vacant unit at the River Ridge Apartments in Canton to molest her.

He cut her throat, beat her over the head with a roller skate and discarded her lifeless body in a trash compactor before calmly joining his roommate and a female friend for a night of shopping and pot smoking. Continue Reading…