A retired state trooper working as a warrant officer, Jim Bedell would visit the police department in the village of Constantine, Michigan, to track down deadbeats, and he'd be drawn to posters seeking information about the 2007 murder of a girl named Jodi Parrack. "I had worked homicides before and I was bothered by the idea that it was an 11-year-old girl and the person who did this was still out there," Bedell, 70, tells People. "This guy needed to be located." A year after the murder, at the request of the village manager, Bedell took the position of Constantine's police chief...
- 5/4/2014
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
A retired state trooper working as a warrant officer, Jim Bedell would visit the police department in the village of Constantine, Michigan, to track down deadbeats, and he'd be drawn to posters seeking information about the 2007 murder of a girl named Jodi Parrack. "I had worked homicides before and I was bothered by the idea that it was an 11-year-old girl and the person who did this was still out there," Bedell, 70, tells People. "This guy needed to be located." A year after the murder, at the request of the village manager, Bedell took the position of Constantine's police chief...
- 5/4/2014
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
When Jo Gilson went looking for her missing 11-year-old daughter back in 2007, one of the first homes she visited was that of Raymond McCann. McCann, then a reserve police officer with the Constantine (Mich.) Police Department, was a close family friend. Gilson had dated his brother decades earlier. Their kids played together. And Gilson's daughter, Jodi Parrack, had a little crush on one of McCann's two sons. Police say McCann not only joined in the search for Parrack but suggested they look in the local cemetery. And that was where they found her body near her bicycle. More than six years later,...
- 4/28/2014
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
When Jo Gilson went looking for her missing 11-year-old daughter back in 2007, one of the first homes she visited was that of Raymond McCann. McCann, then a reserve police officer with the Constantine (Mich.) Police Department, was a close family friend. Gilson had dated his brother decades earlier. Their kids played together. And Gilson's daughter, Jodi Parrack, had a little crush on one of McCann's two sons. Police say McCann not only joined in the search for Parrack but suggested they look in the local cemetery. And that was where they found her body near her bicycle. More than six years later,...
- 4/28/2014
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
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