Lisa Pate

Lafayette's KATC-TV 3 has an excellent rundown of the nearly two dozen lawsuits convicted murderer Brandon Scott Lavergne unleashed over the last two weeks.  After all, what else is the guy going to do while sitting in Angola State Penitentiary serving a life sentence? Lavergne pled guilty in 2012 to the murders of Mickey Shunick and Lisa Pate.

In a move that makes you want to say "YAY, justice system," a judge turned down confessed killer Brandon Scott Lavergne's attempts to withdraw his guilty plea.  He also pretty much turned down everything else Lavergne was asking for, too.

Poor little St. Lavergne thinks he's being treated too roughly behind those charming prison walls at Angola.

The case of the missing University of Louisiana Lafayette student Mickey Shunick will be the featured story on NBC's Dateline this Tuesday night January 29th.

Just when we thought the story had ended, a new twist -- Brandon Scott Lavergne, the killer of UL-Lafayette student Mickey Shunick has changed his mind about his guilty pleas and is now claiming he was pressured into making his plea deal.

In probably the only move left to him, Brandon Scott Lavergne pled guilty today to the murders of Michaela “Mickey” Shunick and Lisa Pate.  And, in doing so, he revealed the heartbreaking story of how everything went down on that fateful night back in May when Shunick went missing — and on another night in 1999 when he killed Lisa.

The Lafayette Police have confirmed that the body discovered in Evangeline Parish on Tuesday is that of missing UL-Lafayette student Mickey Shunick.

Shortly after the arrest of Brandon Lavergne as a suspect in the Mickey Shunick case, Lafayette police announced that he was also the prime suspect in the 1999 murder of Lisa Pate. Now, the Lafayette District Attorney's Office says they want to try him for both murders at the same time. Here's the story:

A Lafayette Parish grand jury indicted Brandon Scott Lavergne for the first degree murder of the still-missing Mickey Shunick.  But in a bombshell, grand jurors also found enough evidence to also charge him with the first degree murder of an Acadia Parish woman who was found dead in 1999.