Video Source: WOOD-TV

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY — Next week, a Michigan judge will sentence a man who’s pleaded guilty to murdering a young girl back in 2007.

In a new video confession obtained, courtesy of WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Daniel Furlong described Jodi Parrack’s death to investigators.

Furlong was already in jail after he was arrested for luring a young girl into his White Pigeon garage back in August. Fortunately, that girl escaped.

However, investigators listened as Furlong confirmed some grisly details into Parrack’s death, which has weighed heavily on the village of Constantine for the better part of a decade.

This is our first look at video of convicted killer Daniel Furlong’s conversation with police and the St. Joseph County prosecutor.

“The DNA tested and was a match for the DNA found on Jodi Parrack’s clothing and body the night of her homicide,” county prosecutor John McDonough said during an announcement on Sept. 10.

Police had the DNA, now they have Furlong’s confession to go along with the 2007 murder and sexual assault of 11-year-old Jodi Parrack.

“This guy slid under that wire for a long time. But eventually, you might say he hung himself,” former Constantine Police Chief Jim Bedell said.

Furlong was never a person of interest in Parrack’s death. He was arrested in August after a young girl in White Pigeon says Furlong tried luring her into his garage. Once in handcuffs, Furlong agreed to a DNA test, but says Parrack’s death hadn’t crossed his mind in years.

Furlong gave grisly details of how he kidnapped and killed Jodi, first seeing her outside riding bike the afternoon of Nov. 7, 2007, while he was cleaning his garage.

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