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The 1996 case, now the subject of renewed interest on social media. You still have hope that this can be solved.

Still trying to get to the police chief today.

Well, again, that's evidence, so I can't discuss that. Okay.

Is there anything we can do to speed this up? Because I don't know what's happening up in the next week to week here, day to day. So is there anything we can do, please?

He lit that fire knowing he could very well die. He'd been locked in that room for 20 years. And for 20 years, you've been trying to get out of that room.

There are two missing persons that we're investigating, trying to find out what their situation is to make a determination to see if that's maybe our victim. We don't know that much about it. There are no signs of gunshots or knife wounds or anything like that. But we are... looking to the medical examiner's office to tell us what the cause of death was.

The Armada Police Department and the Michigan State Police are currently investigating a homicide which occurred within the village limits of Armada, happened in the area of Fulton Road in Depot, which is at the south end of town. The body was discovered approximately 8.20 last night. Preliminary investigation reveals that two adults that were on the trail, using the trail,

were alerted to a female's body, which was located in a drainage ditch. The victim has been identified as April Dawn Millsap. She's 14 years of age, and she is from the village of Armada.

When they did the autopsies, there are no signs of sexual assault.

Detectives are currently looking for a large gray box van that was seen in the area of the crime scene. This is described as a painter's type of van. It has dents all over the van, and the van was occupied by two white males. It has not been determined the role of the van in this investigation.

If you are aware of a similar van in the area or know somebody that has that type of van, the police are asking the citizens to contact the Michigan State Police. The van was seen late afternoon, early evening last night. And again, we don't know the participation of the van. It could be You know, just the wrong place at the wrong time.

And if we can get somebody to come forward and let us know that they were out here, that's what we're looking for.

We're about to start a canvas of the whole village. The van was seen, you know, kind of circling in and out of the area. So that's why somebody took a picture of it.

The imprints on the victim's neck were so significant and vivid that we felt that if we could find those shoes, that we could match it up.

the details today at 10 57 a.m our team was called to the abundant life christian school in reference to an active shooter we know that three people are dead including the suspect shooter We know that the suspect shooter was a teenage student who attended the school. At this time, we're not releasing the age or gender of the student or any other identifying remarks about the student.