CONSTANTINE, MI — In a sworn statement, a Michigan State Police trooper lists off what he says were numerous lies former Constantine Police reserve officer Raymond E. McCann made to police and then under oath after 11-year-old Jodi Parrack was killed in 2007.
In September 2012, Detective Trooper Bryan Fuller said McCann, 46, was asked while testifying under an investigative subpoena from the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office “how it would be possible for Jodi Parrack’s DNA to be on his person or how it could be possible that his DNA could have been found on Jodi Parrack,” according to a four-page affidavit.
Police say 46-year-old Raymond Emmett McCann of Constantine was arrested on Friday April 18 2014. The arrest warrant was for perjury in connection with the investigation.
MORE: Read the affidavit
McCann testified, according to the affidavit, that the DNA may have come from his pulling Valerie Carver, Jodi’s mother, away from her daughter after Carver found her daughter dead in the Constantine Township Cemetery on Nov. 8, 2007.
Asked during his 2012 testimony how Jodi’s DNA could have been found in his pickup truck, McCann said Carver had given him a hug on the night of Nov. 8 as she sat in his pickup truck to get warm.
“This investigation has determined that neither of these incidents occurred,” Fuller wrote in the affidavit, which he filed Thursday to obtain an arrest warrant charging McCann with one count of perjury, a felony that is punishable by a maximum of life in prison.
“McCann’s explanation regarding these questions has been determined to be fictitious and would potentially indicate that (McCann) fully expected his DNA evidence to exist. Additionally, when interviewing Angela McCann, (McCann’s) wife at the time of the incident, she relayed that McCann was extremely concerned that DNA evidence would be found linking him to this crime and he began to explain its possibility with accounts of events that continually changed.”
The alleged false statements by McCann are just some of several Fuller listed in his affidavit.
McCann was arraigned on the perjury charge Saturday in St. Joseph County District Court. He is being held in the county jail on a $225,000 cash/surety bond pending a hearing on evidence against him May 1.
Fuller’s affidavit says that it was McCann, and no one else, who suggested searching the township cemetery the night Jodi disappeared. The affidavit also says that Jodi had injuries on both wrists “consistent with the application of handcuffs.”
McCann told police that he only ever owned one set of handcuffs, according to the affidavit. However, Fuller said the investigation determined that was not the case.
“Given the fact that McCann was a reserve police officer at the time of this incident, he would have access to handcuffs,” Fuller said.
Rex Hall Jr. is a public safety reporter for the Kalamazoo Gazette. You can reach him at rhall2@mlive.com. Follow him on Twitter.
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