GBI interview with Ryan Brunn
ATLANTA -- When Ryan Brunn pleaded guilty to the murder of seven-year-old Jorelys Rivera, he told the court in detail how he abducted and killed her.
Almost immediately after that plea, GBI Agents Dustin Hamby and Brian Whidby spent more than two hours picking Brunn's brain, trying to learn as much as they could about him, to help them in future cases. The GBI just released that video interview.
Brunn explained to the agents that he started looking at child pornography on the internet a couple of years ago when he lived with his mother in Dahlonega.
"I'm not gonna say it just popped up one time," he said. "It was advertisements and things I've seen on the Internet and also I've just clicked on them."
The agents repeatedly questioned Brunn about allegations that he had fondled other children when he lived in Virginia and then Dahlonega. Eventually, Brunn admitted it.
"I guess I did it more than one time," he said. "I guess I did it a few times but it wasn't on the same day."
But what made him take the giant leap from fondling a child to molesting and brutally killing Jorelys Rivera?
"Is there anything in your past? Hamby asked him.
"I wasn't molested," Brunn responded.
"Are you sure about that?" the agent asked.
"I'm pretty sure, that I can recall, I wasn't," Brunn said.
Brunn insisted he never acted out, he never had sexual intentions until December 2, the day he coaxed Jorelys into a vacant apartment by stealing her roller blade.
"When I seen her skate down on the ground, I thought about it that day," he said. "I didn't never think nothing like that before."
The only remorse he showed in the interview was for himself. One of his regrets was not being able to watch the Super Bowl.
"I regret everything I did," he said. "I wish I was still working and I wish I could watch the Giants win the Super Bowl, but I guess I'm not going to do that."
When the interview was over, Brunn uttered these now ominous words to the two agents: "You all wanna come see me in prison? Feel free."
The interview took place on January 17, 2012. Two days later Ryan Brunn was found dead in his cell at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison. He hanged himself. There was no indication in the interview that he had any suicidal tendencies.