Confessed child killer Daniel Callihan's father had disturbing criminal history too

Before last week, Virginia Firmin had never heard the name Daniel Callihan.

“I had no idea who he was,” said Firmin.

That was before she got information from a former detective who had worked on her daughter’s homicide case back in April of 1990. Now, she’s reliving a nightmare.

“The man who kidnapped those two children is the son of Kelly Wayne Drott, the person who killed Rebecca,” said Firmin.

Rebecca Forbes was 19 when she went to the Italian Festival in Independence. That’s where Firmin says her youngest of three daughters met Kelly Wayne Drott and got into his car. He was later convicted of killing her, claiming it was an accident.

“He said he pushed her, and she hit her head, and that he put her in the trunk of the car and threw her off of the bridge,” said Firmin.

Forbes’ body was found three weeks later in the Tangipahoa Parish River.

Drott was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison but escaped from a New Orleans facility. While on the run he shot the woman who helped him escape and kidnapped a teenage girl. Both survived. Drott eventually shot and killed himself.

Thirty-four years later, Drott’s son Daniel Callihan, 36, is accused of killing Callie Brunett, 35, inside her Loranger home and kidnapping her two young daughters. The girls were found in Jackson, Mississippi. The youngest, Erin Brunett, 3, was dead.