Today's episode is part two of our three-part series. In part one, we covered the disappearance

and murder of 11-year-old Jody Perrick and the investigation that followed, where investigators

narrowed in on their number one suspect, Ray McCann. Attorney David Moran is a clinical professor at the University of Michigan's Law School

and the co-founder of the Michigan Innocence Clinic. David plays an important role in this story,

and I'll explain more later. Here, he recaps the case we've covered so far.

Jody Perrick, an 11-year-old girl in the little village of Constantine, Michigan, disappeared.

And Ray was a factory worker and a volunteer police officer in Constantine.

Constantine was so small, I only had one full-time police officer.

And he was actually off work at the time because he was suffering from Virgo.

But on this day in October, or the fall anyway, of 2007, Jody Perrick's mother came by Ray's

house and asked if Ray had seen Jody.

Ray had an 11-year-old son who was in the same grade as Jody.

Ray had, but Ray agreed to get dressed.

He was actually in pajamas sometime, get dressed in and go look for her.

And so pretty quickly, the local authorities set up search parties. Ray joined the search parties and he drove around town to various places looking for Jody.

And then at some point in the evening, the searchers met up at the police station, and Ray suggested the cemetery.

I wondered if anybody had gone to look at the cemetery.

And so a search party went to the cemetery, and that's where they found Jody's body.

And she had been strangled and sexually assaulted and left in the cemetery.

So this was a horrific murder that shocked Constantine, and the local authorities really didn't get anywhere in their investigation, and eventually the state police came on board.

And the state police investigation was largely led by a detective of Brian Fuller.

And Detective Fuller quickly came to the view that Ray must have been involved in the murder and or rape of Jody because he was the one who had suggested that they go look in the cemetery.

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