He attempted to abduct or rape an adult and that didn't work. She fought him off. People also thought he was strange. I don't remember any case (aside from the one where the student murdered the teacher recently...I'm sorry, I don't remember his name...) where his peers thought he seemed pretty normal and then he raped and murdered. Of course, that's just in my recent memory...I'm sure it's happened.
I find it a bit odd that no one has come forward with a creepy story, other than the random and very vague warning the lady supposedly gave. My guess, is they are being interviewed by the police, or there aren't many.
ETA: If anyone remembers cases of boys who did this in their presumed first crime, please tell us! It's always interesting too look at similar cases, I would be really curious!
BBM
Ryan Brunn/Jorelys Rivera. He passed background check to work as a maintenance man at the apartment complex (Keys to every apartment and the vacant ones!) It came out after he was arrested, confessed, and after he was sentenced, that he had
molested a child relative, but it had been sealed, as he was a juvenile at the time.
The mother of the (past) molested child, nor the child who was molested, spoke up to the media in the first days or weeks since Ryan Brunn was arrested (Understandably!) They still have never spoken out on it. LE simply released the generic information after his sentencing.
All of his family spoke up for him, he'd never harm a child, he loves children. (Did they not know about the molestation of the child relative?) I don't think his mom ever said a word on TV or in print. He had friends who also said it was impossible. People he hung out with stood up for him.
Only hours after Brunn's arrest his brother, Connor Brunn, spoke out in his defense.
"Ryan is my brother, and I just think he's innocent," Connor told 11Alive's Doug Richards Wednesday afternoon. "There's just no way that he would do something like this."
"This is just a big mistake," he added. "I just honestly think this is a big set-up."
Another brother, Steven Brunn, spoke with the Associated Press Wednesday night. He said Ryan "is great with kids" and has no criminal record.
^^ Except he did. Molestation. As a juvenile.
http://canton.11alive.com/news/news/92865-canton-jorelys-rivera-memorialized-saturday
One ex neighbor went on the record and spoke up.
"We have had several instances where some questionable things have happened," said Brittany Partin, who also lives next door. "There's just been several things where we were caught off guard but we didn't know what to do."
In one example, Partin said Brunn punched his family dog in the face.
This one ex-neighbor spoke up after he was arrested ....but she lived an hour away from where RB was living at the time of the crime.
Family members and Brunn's public defender say he is innocent.
Brian Staples, whose brother is married to Brunn's sister, said Brunn is outgoing and friendly, not the socially awkward, quiet maintenance man that residents at the apartment complex described.
He said Brunn is "into helping people, not hurting people."
BiB is Interesting to note
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/archives/60284/
One resident at the complex where Jorelys was sexually assaulted and killed said this:
"He said, and I quote, 'It would be really easy for someone to break in and do something to one of these children,'" Johnson-Coker told HLN Wednesday.
"I did talk to him on a daily basis and he seemed like a relatively nice guy. He wasn't socially awkward. He didn't seem to have any type of anger issue. He seemed like a regular, decent person who worked there to make a living just like anybody else," she said. "The statement at the time did not shock me. I did not think anything odd about it."
http://archive.firstcoastnews.com/n...st-Made-in-Death-of-7-year-old-Jorelys-Rivera
After hearing what the climate is like in the very tight-knit community, I can't blame ANYONE for not speaking out on the record for or against anyone. And I'm assuming, as these things go, the investigation is ongoing, up until it goes to trial. I'd be talking to the FBI/LE....and
that's it regarding ANYTHING GG, JW, DW, Jenise, the other children, cars, Burger King.....anything!