During the questioning, Brown, 32, admitted the toddler was dead after initially lying and telling investigators a Child Protective Services official in a state car had taken her away in January 2021.
Brown and Royer, 44, were both convicted last year in the child's death. Khaleesi's body has never been found.
On Friday afternoon in Augusta County Circuit Court, Brown will be sentenced on a charge of aggravated murder, which carries an automatic sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole.
An expert on child abuse and torture testified the case fit the definition of child torture.
After authorities arrested Brown and Royer in Pennsylvania, Virginia State Police searched the couple's home where investigators found bloodstains on a wall that contained Khaleesi's DNA. One of the bloodstains was six feet off the floor. Police located a wire hanger with a handle made of tape that contained both Royer's DNA and the toddler's, evidence showed. Khaleesi's door to her bedroom was also found to have a lock on the outside.
Brown, also convicted of child abuse, has a sentencing hearing that begins at 2 p.m. on Friday. Royer, convicted of first-degree murder, is scheduled to be sentenced next week on Thursday, court records show.
Khaleesi Cuthriell, 3, went missing in 2021. Travis R. Brown, 32, is one of two people convicted in her killing. He will be sentenced Friday.
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