A few days after Halloween on a chilly afternoon in 2007, 11-year-old Jody Perrick got on a silver

bike in southwest Michigan and rode to a friend's house, less than half a mile away.

She never returned home for dinner.

According to reports, her mom thought Jody might have joined a friend at an

evening Girl Scouts meeting without telling her. But when it became clear that she hadn't gone to

Girl Scouts, Jody's mom reported her missing. The search began in Constantine, Michigan, a quiet

blue-collar working farm town.

The following audio is from an interview the police conducted with Jody's mom, and you'll hear this throughout the episode.

I went back home, and I told my husband that I didn't know where she was I was going to go look for

so then I started driving around looking for because I'm thinking she's not going for a bike ride

so I'm like driving around the blogs seeing if I can see her riding her bike somewhere and I end up

driving where I know she wouldn't even go.

And I'm like, she's not nowhere.

And I'm grabbing by houses looking for her bike, like in the yard or something.

Then I went to the police station because I couldn't find her.

The officers asked her about a man named Ray McCann.

Ray McCann, a married father, was a volunteer reserve police officer in the Constantine Police Department.

As a reserve police officer, Ray patrolled around town and provided security for local parades and festivals.

He would later say that being a reserve was the same as being a full-time regular officer.

You just followed the chain of command, which meant that full-time officers were his superiors.

Ray wore a uniform and carried a gun, just like any other officer on the force, in a town where

violent crime was rare. Lately, though, he had been on leave because he had been dealing with

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