The Mysterious Death of Jodi Parrack

CONSTANTINEConstantine reviews – On Thursday, in the Village of Constantine in St. Joseph County, 11-year-old Jodi Christine Parrack was visiting a friend, Mariah Dupree. Jodi, a fifth-grader at Riverside Elementary School, was wearing a black sweater, black T-shirt, jeans and black tennis shoes. The fifth-grade girls were hanging out at Mariah's home less than a mile from the Constantine Township Cemetery. When Mariah had to go to Girl Scouts, they split up.

"I asked her if she wanted to go with me," said Mariah. "And she said she didn't really want to join."

At around 4:45 p.m. Jodi took off on her bike down the street but never made it home. When she didn't come home on time, Jodi's mother, Valerie, went to the Duprees home. They all jumped into cars and began looking for her. At around 10:30 pm, Valerie checked the cemetery and found her fully-clothed daughter, lying dead next to her bicycle. The Kent County Medical Examiner is calling it a homicide but says the case is "Frustrating." An autopsy leads investigators to believe she was murdered. There was no physical evidence on her, no signs of [Read more...]