Story Created:
Nov 15, 2007 at 7:47 PM EDT
Story Updated:
Mar 28, 2008 at 6:22 PM EDT
(WSBT) It's been a week, but still no arrest in the murder of an 11-year-old Constantine, Mich. girl. Police say they're closer to finding whoever killed Jodi Parrack.
Investigators are focusing on the few hours before her body was found. Jodi's mother found the 11-year-old's body in a Constantine cemetery after she failed to come home from a friend's house.
"I mean everybody knows everybody else, [and that] enhances our chances of finding out exactly what happened," said Constantine Police Chief Mark Honeysett.
Finding out what happened lies within the path Jodi Parrack took the night she was killed. Police say Jodi Parrack left her friend's house at the 100-block of East Third Street and headed west toward the downtown area.
Just a block away is where she was last seen at the intersection of East Third Street and Washington. Police say after she left there someone had to have seen her.
"It stands to reason that she was somewhere between where she was last seen and the time that she met her killer, [it] stands to reason that someone would have seen her," said Honeysett.
Her home is located on the 600 block of Centreville Road, less than 3/4 of a mile from where she was last seen. Jodi's mother was expecting her home at 5:30.
"Between 7:30 and 8 she came here, she spoke with an officer and the officer took a report in great detail and then notified central dispatch that he had taken a missing person's report," explained Honeysett.
At around 10:30 Jodi Parrack's body was found at Constantine Township Cemetery, roughly a half mile southeast of her home.
The nearly six hours that are unaccounted for are what's keeping police from catching Jodi's killer.
Police are still urging people with information to come forward, especially if anyone saw anything between 4:45 and 10:30 last Thursday night.