BATON ROUGE – The boyfriend of a missing woman was booked for murder after he confessed to killing her and throwing her 2-year-old son over a bridge and leaving him to die.
Brynnen Murphy, 20, was booked on two counts of first-degree murder. A judge ordered Tuesday that he remain jailed without bond. Police said they’ll likely pursue feticide charges against him, too.
Police said Murphy told investigators where he dumped the bodies of 24-year-old Kaylen Johnson and her son Kaden, prompting searches at two separate locations in East Baton Rouge early Monday afternoon.
Kaylen was found around noon in a wooded area along Burbank Drive near Gardere Lane. Her son’s body was found a short while later along Central Thruway, south of Frenchtown Road. Police believe both bodies had been dumped about a week ago.
Kaylen Johnson had been shot multiple times, the coroner said, after an autopsy Tuesday.
Sources told WBRZ Murphy confessed to shooting and killing Kaylen in the parking lot of his apartment complex on North Harrells Ferry Road. Murphy then allegedly ditched the gun in the same wooded area where Kaylen was found. Kaylen’s son Kaden was reportedly in the car when his mother was shot and when Murphy dumped her body.