Victim 's father says he would have preferred to die ` ` in the electric chair '' ' Brunn died of an apparent suicide , a Georgia corrections officer says . He pleaded guilty Tuesday in the murder of 7-year - old Jorelys Smith . The girl was found dead in a trash compactor three days after she went missing .
Victim 's father says he would have preferred Brunn die `` in the electric chair '' Ryan Brunn died of an apparent suicide , a Georgia corrections spokeswoman says . He pleaded guilty Tuesday in the murder of 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera . The girl was found dead in a trash compactor three days after she went missing .