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Mr. McCann Saddy pulled into the south side at the first road of the cemetery

He said he jumped out of his truck and seen and heard the mother screaming. I think she was just saying my baby my baby

Welcome to season 5 episode 102 of Sword and Scale a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real

This episode will be released on the 4th anniversary of the conception of this show and over that time we've told you many scary stories about the world in which we live and here we are on the cusp of another hallows eve a time in which we celebrate the very idea of fear but unlike ghosts and goblins the story we have for you today evokes a completely different story of the world from the past.

We have a very different type of fear a fear based in reality a fear of what could happen to any one of us because of the innate imperfections in this thing we call the criminal justice system.

Stay tuned.

Thursday, November 8th 2007 11 year old Jody Christine Parick was playing at a friend's house in Constantine, Michigan a small town of around 2000 people close to the Indiana border.

She left her friend's house on her bike and headed home but after Jody did not arrive home before her 530 p.m. curfew her mother Valerie Carver who also went by the name of Joe grew concerned.

She had last been seen in town at around 4.45 p.m. riding her bicycle family members began searching for Jody and around 7.05 p.m. Joe went to the Constantine Police Department to report her daughter missing.

Friends and other residents joined in the search and because the town of Constantine is so small they set out to search for Jody without much of a plan.

They likely figured that the town was small enough that sooner or later they would have to cross paths with Jody.

Police officers and town residents searched the DNS market, the local dollar store, the town's baseball field and other locations trying to locate where Jody might have gone.

Eventually Jody's mother Joe decided to check the Constantine township cemetery.

Along with a car full of searchers, Joe headed to the cemetery.

When she arrived the car headlights flashed on a silver Morgus bicycle.

When we first pulled into the cemetery the headlights shone on her bike.

At around 10.30 p.m. Joe found her daughter in the cemetery at the foot of headstone.

I fell on the ground saying no God, no God, I can believe it, I didn't want to believe it.

Her mother would say about her lifeless body that it looked like she was sleeping.

Jody was gone. Police arrived on scene shortly thereafter and a responding Constantine police officer wrote the following in an incident report.

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