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Police find missing girl’s body

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana - One man passed a polygraph in the disappearance of a young girl, but another one led investigators to the girl’s body. Vince Cooley, a 42-year-old convicted sex offender, was the lead suspect in the December disappearance of 12-year-old Christina Tedder. After he passed a polygraph administered by APA member Steve Sims though, police cut him loose and pursued other avenues. Marion County Sheriff investigators found a friend of the girl’s family and eventually that person led them to Tedder’s body in a creek east of Indianapolis. Jeffrey A. Voss was charged in the kidnapping-murder after questioning. "I really believe that if [the Marion County Sheriff’s Department] had continued to focus on Mr. Cooley, I am not sure they would have made an arrest so quickly," said Sims in a letter to this writer.

Source: Letter from APA member Steve Sims. Three articles from the Indy Star were also used, all from December 2004.