Lavergne was convicted of murdering Lisa Pate and University of Louisiana student Mickey Shunick. He avoided the death penalty in exchange for his confessions and the location of Shunick's body.
A guilty plea has been made, the story is out and things are coming to a close. What is left now is for the family of Mickey Shunick and the family of Lisa Pate to be able to make some peace with what has happened.
I can't begin to know what this feels like...
Legal analysts are saying trying the two cases together could be more economical. Even so, Harson says it could take two to three years to bring Lavergne to trial.
Charlie Shunick, Mickey's sister, says she would do anything to find out what happened to her. She says even if it means Brandon Scott Lavergne, the man indicted for Mickey's murder, would strike a deal with prosecutors to lessen his sentence if he told authorities what he allegedly did with her body...
After searching through their archives, the Daily Advertiser discovered old stories on the discovery of the remains of Lisa Pate. At the time, her family said she had a history of drug abuse.
LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL) -- A grand jury has indicted Brandon Scott Lavergne on charges he kidnapped and murdered missing University of Louisiana at Lafayette student Mickey Shunick. But in a surprising development, the grand jury also indicted Lavergne on a separate first degree murder charge stemming from a case in July of 1999...