I have a close friend in Law enforcement in Louisiana, at 1 pm today they are going to release more information, it appears the white truck was found burned in Texas a few weeks ago, it appears to be registered to this man, and some paint scrapings found on her bicycle, if this is the guy, then they will try to make a deal, if he tells where the body can be found, they will agree not to use that evidence against him; sex offenders that use force(not just young date unwanted sex), almost never are rehabilitated, it has more to do with anger and rage then sex, their brains are loose a few wires, it is best to put them down as you would put down a rabid animal!

Yes. Forget the registration crap. It's not working! Mandatory castration and death or life in prison should be the penalty, not having his name on a list of creeps and weirdos.

I agree! Here is a site for the "THE NATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND
NOTIFICATION". The definitions for criteria for each 'Tier' starts on page 21. On Page 25 is an example of a case which gives an idea of how the system works, since it can be very complicated.

I used to speak on panels, representing Youth Services H&W, at Colleges, etc. The percentage of rehabilitation (which, at best is speculative) is extremely, extremely low. Lower than you might even think. Still, as one who has been abused, I have compassion for most predators (yes, predators!) because, in most cases, they have been a victim and were 'rewired' as children to have different priorities. If one of my children became a 'predator' though, I would be the first to say, "Put him/her away, for everybody's good."

Cut his d*** off THEN give him life in prison. No sadistic man could bear to live without his manhood for life in a place that will quickly turn him into a catcher. Death is too good for this man.

I know it is a stretch to even think this would happen but castration sounds good to me. Take the urge away all together. The bleeding hearts would blame the offenders upbringing and make him the victim.

You are a saint because I have absolutely NO compassion for a man who does this to a person, NONE whatsoever.....

Forget castration and prison. Let the fathers of the victims send these pos's to the next life, hell, or whatever you want to call it.

Cmon, castration is way to extreme. I think violent sex offenders should wear an ankle bracelet for the rest of their life. That way the gov can track them wherever they go, resulting in less chance of them committing future offenses. There could even be an app that would trigger an alert to nearby women, so they know to stay away from would be offenders. Anytime they go near a school, alert! The idea is to really make it a living hell for them, and restrict where they can or can't go, and know exactly where they were whenever a crime occurs in their vicinity.

Ankle bracelet, really???? First you want to them to walk freely amongst us then you want to "bling" them out, whatever (rolling eyes).....

@pup

I don't think Ipkaaa was demonstrating any compassion for them. I think his plan was to torment. I agree with you that his plan is crap, but I thought his intention was to "molest" them.

I could be wrong though.

With a face like his it's no wonder he is driven to rape. No girl in her right mind would look at him twice. At least he was kind enough to blindfold the one girl.

Of course anyone that commits a violent crime like this guy did should rot in prison, but there should be a contingency in place for those that are released, instead of just letting them live their remaining lives among us, in the shadows. We already put some convicts on house arrest, why not make it mandatory for those that have been proven to be violent? A track-able ankle bracelet is hardly considered "bling"

@ apkaaa,

You wrote;

"Cmon, castration is way to extreme."

Then what do you call murder of an "innocent" woman? I understand your point of an ankle bracelet but I'd say, "Ankle braclet and chop his dick off!"

If this poor woman was my daughter or wife, he'd be "lucky" if the cops got to him before I did.

Hey now boys and girls... turn the other cheek... then turn it again... and again... and again... we must forgive and try and rehabilitate these young men. Just think of all they have to offer to society. Why Thomas Edison was a pedophile and Abraham Lincoln a peeping Tom. Henry Ford use to wait in the mens room for little boys to come in and then he's unzip his pants. The only reason Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone was to make obscene phone calls to little girls. So they kidnap, torture, rape and murder an occassional co-ed or kid... someone's daughter or sister or aunt... big deal. They have so much to offer!

@pup

Turns out I was wrong about Ipkaaa. You understood and I did not.

Can I break out my salute to John Kramer on this guy?

I agree with those who are for castration. It's not extreme and it's necessary to keep this from happening repeatedly. This is a nation far too willing to hold hands, sing happy songs and pretend nothing is wrong until it affects them personally. Then they cry and weep and only then does it become a travesty.

Sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated. Either kill them or castrate them.

@CaerRaven;I hope that your a man, but most likely your a woman, but by chance your a man then guess what these women here that are blogging are talking about (MEN) because what man does not like sex, even homo like sex, there a woman rep, in ohio that want a law pass saying that sex can only happen for Men when the woman want to start a family, sex is not for recreation. And no I am not saying that rape is right, all I am saying is that this is what Men do, read my book "From 1 to 99". And what I tell woman in the book to do is when they have a baby boy just castrate him at birth an woman will no have this problem. Now just because this man was an offender has nothing to do with sex, the girl is presume dead or missing, no evident to say if she was rape, it sound like hit and run. But you bandwagoners will alway go a witch hunt.

Hazel,

That's what happens, they get caught the first time, then they kill to try and not get caught again.

They mentioned that her bike had his truck paint on it and that she was riding at the wee hours of the morning. Maybe, "just" maybe he was drunk and hit her on the bike with his truck and she was killed. He panicked, threw both in the bed of his truck (he burned his truck to hide blood evidence) and got rid of the evidence (so he thought)

Now, if this "is" the case then maybe he didn't rape her.

This is MSNBC's way of getting all of us to say what we said so far accusing him of sexual molestation. The editor of this story is probably reading all of our posts laughing with his/her colleague at our posts knowing other info thinking (look at all these fools posting all this @!$%# man!)

Notice that they haven't found her body yet but just "had" to put in there that he's a pedo. It go me too at first when I wrote my upper post. We haven't seen the rest this yet so stay tuned and we'll see.

All in all, this guy is still an @!$%# scumbag.

Have a nice weekend.

CD

The possibility that he hit her while driving IS a real and valid one. Also, he didnt even have to be drunk to have done it, although his actions afterwards are just as cowardly and henious to warrant contempt and max punishment.

If they found the bike, the, bike should at least reveal that part of the story...

I feel terrible for this girl, but uhm...would I advise ANY young woman to go out riding a bike late at night? No, and neither would anybody else with common sense.

Oh crimany 31C. First, they said early morning. That could be 5 or 6am. That's daylight this time of year. But, then 3 or 4pm could be dark as night during the winter. Why must you A) Put ANY blame on the victim? and B) say that "young women" need to be locked away? The murderer is 1000000000% responsible for killing the woman, period.

It' naive to believe that crimes are only committed during the creepy dark hours. Many serial killers have captured victims during daylight hours. You know, the hours where all the bad people are supposed to hybernate?

I will need to make sure that we get a comprehensive female curfew in place where I live. All women should also have a chaperone. Perhaps they should actually alter their appearance to not entice bad men.. cover their faces and hair and ankles and such.. In fact, perhaps we ladies shouldn't even work because depending on the season and daylight savings, the sun may set on us in transit to and from our jobs...

You should have left it at: I feel terrible for this girl.

Actually sex offenders have some of the smallest percentages of reoffending. In studies they've done across the country, they show a 3-8% reoffending rate in the first 3 years. Thieves have the highest at 70%. By the way, not all sex offenders are rapists or child molesters. Believe it or not, but there are numerous of 1. Men who've peed on a wall and got slapped with indecent exposure. 2. Was 18 and slept with their 16 year old girlfriend 3. falsely accused. Our society has us believing that sex offenders are constantly on the verge of reoffending and are the scum of the earth, but in reality, the recidivity rate is quite low and really anyone could easily find themselves in that same boat. Not to say that there aren't incredibly evil, dangerous men on the registry, but don't be so quick to judge.

@LTTMN, I didn't think that there was anybody here with common sence. and my point is what were these Men before they became Offenders, they were just any man walking down the street, you don't become onw until you get tried and convicted, then you get that lable. Offender aren't stupid, after doing about 25 years, most will not again, and like you say that 3%. But again how did one become one, teachers policemen, doctors, senators, fathers brothers, any man that your neighbor, any free man walking down the street, but to hear and see that murders are lest evil than a rapist is amazing, so death is better than being raped, one question for women how did we all get here, by what mean?? And you do the same thing eeveryday with your husband or boyfriend, so women would rather be dead, that a good one. And I wonder why they don't register Murders, don't society want to know where they ARE.

Your statistics are clearly made up. The rate of recidivism for sex offenders in general isn't anything near %100. The rate for pedophiles is up around %60, that's too high considering the victims of their crimes.

This man, an ugly as sin kidnapper has shown us before what he's capable of and he's a classic case for further commitment to a mental health facility indefinitely. Unfortunately for one-time offenders they all get caught up in the recent continuing confinement laws.

If Lavernge (where's Shirley?) isn't put away for life this time he'll surely leave a trail of bodies behind him the next time.

He should be placed in the general population due to the heinous nature of this hit n run evidence.

He gave his victim NO CHANCE and in return he should get NO CHANCE!

The prisons need the room for potheads.

Just another sad proof sex offender registration doesn't work! The 90% who are rehabilitated can't make up for the 10% that aren't!

I want to know what the hell a convicted sex offender is doing in the military?

castration will not work, he still has fingers, feet and a mind, the only thing a POS like this deserves is death.

He was already in the military before his first conviction.

This is what they do they dont tell you where the body is until they can get death off the table and they use finding the body to get what they want...the poor family need closure and they get life in prison instead of a needle ....cut off thier balls like we do dogs this si insane when will we learn this has to stop we put away people for having a bag of weed but we let these animals out ? what is going on in this world of ours?

A body is no longer required to convict a person of murder. Ask any attorney.

Amen! It's way too easy to convict someone based on another person's word.

Someone said the registry isn't working..yeah, you're right it's not. Problem is, LE are too busy chaisng after people with petty crimes OR those falsely accused and there's not enough time and esources for guys like this

The sex offender registry is working! One anomaly isn't a case to abandon it. By that logic one mistake made in any endeavor equals a total failure.

Think about the number of women who have used the registry to find out their boyfriends were using them to get their children!

ONE anomaly!?! yeah try hundreds...look at how well it worked for Jaycee duggard...Phillip garrido was registered, fat lot of good it did

Oh and ask the families of the murdered registrants in WA how they feel. One had kids and he was still registered because of a Romeo and Juliet thing 20 years ago...some loony used the registry to go after people..and now their families are being threatened

yeah, it works soooo well

The registry isn't working. Just how many women have used the registry to find if their boyfriend is on one? The answer is Zero. Look at how many abscond RSO there are. All you have to do is change your name and move out of state. Done No more registration. The registry is effectively a voluntary system.

If the US can't find 10 million illegal aliens - people with no money, no ID , No resources, can't speak English, and don't have a ssn what chance does it have keeping track of someone born here? And by the way this SO listed in the article should fall under the sexual predator statute since he blindfolded the girl and had forcible sex, why was he only tier 3??

I know I just reread that part what is going on with our world?

Is your reading comprehension that limited?

"He was serving in the Army and stationed at Fort Polk when the crime occurred." You can infer that the crime is what led to his prior conviction and separation from the military. Gee Bob, what was he doing for a living when he committed the crime? Well Lisa and Illogical, he was serving in the Army.

Ahh yes .. Steve. I missed that one.

However now that you are done calling names (hopefully). You are the man.

thats a good time for some "friendly fire" in the back of the head

Actually, Steve, it is not clear which crime is the one which occurred while the suspect was serving in the Army, the 2000 one or the recent alleged kidnapping etc. Poor writing in the article.

I'm going to assume that he was serving in the Army during the 2000 crime, simply because you cannot serve in the U.S. military if you are a registered sex offender. Unless they've changed things since my husband signed up. They do have standards in order to register. They run a back ground check, etc. The article should have been more clear on that fact.

cmon steve chillout! now to frying the sob enough of all the excuses he had abad childhood hes parents were drunks he stubbed his toe when he was a teenager who gives a rats azz. LIGHT THIS MOTHER UP AND GET IT OVER

I think you're as bad as Lavernge! Maybe worse! Try actually READING the article next time!

I like the liability idea. But don't just hold the state liable for any damage done by recidivists, sue the members of the parole board, and the state.

Just remember lisa whatever they do to a sex offender they can do to any one of us. Get ready to get chipped, maybe they'll just offer to place one in every new born since there is no way of knowing which one will offend. The number of offenders that actually reoffend is closer to 5%. Most reoffend for something other than a sex crime - It's tough being an offender, or at least one trying to go straight.

He wasn't a sex offender when he joined the army.

It is amazing to me just how many people can't read! Then actually comment on there inability to comprehend the words on the page with a guess of what they THOUGHT it might have said! He wasn't charged with murder for finding only a submurged bike, there assuming eventually her body will turn up, till then the murder charge is sitting on hold...HE WAS IN THE MILITARY when he commited his last crime 12 years ago...can't you people read anything all the way threw and re-read it just in case? Then comment?

Measure twice then cut as the carpenters say...Holy smokes some of you slay me!!!

Let me get this straight He WAS IN THE Military when the he commented his last crime 12 yrs ago was he in the Military at all when he was convicted for ANY THING at all ?
if so i have more to say .

Why was a registered sex offender allowed into the Army or to stay in the Army if there were ANY other wrong doings or do we not know ?

Wow. Okay, just to clarify to those who cannot understand the information being provided.

Brandon Scott Lavergne joined the military before EVER being convicted of ANY crimes.

While he was serving in the army, he was convicted of raping the 18 year old girl. This was in 2000. He was discharged from the military, then charged for the rape and sentenced to a 10-year prison sentence. He was freed from prison in 2008, serving 85% of his 10-year sentence. He was ordered to register as a sex offender, and his sex offender status would remain for the rest of his life as a Tier-3 sex offender, which is the highest class in the registry.

He moved to his current residence, did not register his location, and although the Lafayette Sheriff's Department suspected him of committing the crime, they kept a close eye on him for a month before serving a search warrant and then arresting him yesterday afternoon. He is being charged with failure to register as a sex offender, aggravated kidnapping, and first degree murder.

Although they have not apparently located Mickey Shunick's body, they must have found enough evidence while searching him home to charge him for her murder. Otherwise, he would only be held on suspicion of murder with an ongoing investigation.

Again, he was already in the military when he was charged as a sex offender. He was not a sex offender when he joined the military, and he had no previous crimes on his record that would have prevented him from joining the military.

I am not at all defending this man. I am from Lafayette, LA, and though I didn't know the Shunick family personally, I have numerous friends that were close to Mickey Shunick, and I grieve just the same as the rest of the city does for her disappearance and now, unfortunately, her presumed death. I think this man should rot in prison for the rest of his life, as the death penalty would all but be letting him off too easily. I'm just relating the facts to try to clear up the confusion here.

Hope that clears things up.

IDIOT! READ THE ARTICLE!

Chances are if this whacko, who was working offshore, raped any other women, they didn't come forward because they're dead.

IMO they should let the family dole out the justice here and I'm sure it won't be having him go to sleep and drift off into H3ll.....

Some of those flyers and signs made their way down to Houma where I am. Sad day for the family, I was hoping she'd be found alive. Now the police are talking about murder... I thought they needed a body to assume that one. Hopefully she's alive and just captive somewhere and the police will find her and she and her family will be able to start the healing process.

I'll go slow for you, HE was In the Army When he committed the crime, Not PRIOR to.

I'll go even slower for both of you: He was in the military when he committed the first crime in 2000, not when he allegedly committed this crime.

Learn to read!

As noted above, he may actually have been DUI when he hit her, although I doubt it. Consider though, if you hit someone on a bike with a pickup, there's a very good chance that person would be severely injured or dead. Maybe he's into necrophilia, or maybe he he freaked, dumped the poor woman's body and bike and burned the truck; afraid that if he was even caught for hit and run (or even called the police to the scene out of concern for her, as if), he was going back to the joint for a long time. I know it's a stretch, but it is possible.

As I said, learn to read. And while you're at it try to exercise your brain with other possibilities, rather than jump to immediate conclusions. Without her body, or an unlikely confession, we'll never know exactly what happened.

Sarcasm? Or recognition of the concept of innocent until proven guilty? I'll hope for the latter.