In July 2014, 14-year-old April Millsap set out on her usual evening walk with her dog Penny along the Macomb Orchard Trail in Armada, Michigan. It was a small town, a familiar path, a routine she’d done nearly every night. She never made it home. Hours later, Penny led two joggers to April’s body in a ditch just off the trail. Before she died, April sent a text that would haunt everyone who read it:
“I almost got kidnapped OMFG.”
This week we walk through April’s last evening, the man on the motorcycle witnesses saw her talking to, and the trail of evidence (cell phone pings, a shoe print, a helmet, and an ex-girlfriend’s testimony) that led investigators to James VanCallis Jr.
No DNA, no confession, and a killer who still insists he was framed. We get into how prosecutors built their case, what a jury decided, and the mother who looked her daughter’s killer in the eye and told him exactly what he took.
Justice for April. 💜
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