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Six-year-old Hannah Mack was last seen at around 1:00 A.M., sleeping peacefully on the couch in the family's rural Texas home. The next time she would be seen was when her mother found the child hanging in the families garage. The little girl had been assaulted and then hung to death.
According to police, the girls mother, Dana Mack, began searching for her youngest daughter after she realized Hannah was missing when it was time for her to get ready for school. Family members set out looking for Hannah around the property, and that's when her mother discovered her in the garage. The families house lies in a lakeside community in Eastern Texas, in the town of Corsicana. The garage where the girls body was found sits alone behind the house, and the property is described as secluded.
"I will confirm that the hanging and sexual assault were part of this scenario," said Navarro County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Mit Cox. However, police were remaining extremely tight-lipped about the investigation, something that neighbors found unnerving. In a letter to the Sheriff's Department, judge Vicki Gray said that an autopsy of the little girl showed "a multitude of events that together caused the death of this child." Aside from that, no other details were released.
"(Dana) is just devastated. We all are," said Jean Langford, the girls great-grandmother. "This is the worst thing that's ever happened to this family. Hannah was our pride and joy. She was our little sweetheart."
After the incident, police interviewed several people and began focusing on the boyfriend of the girls mother as their primary suspect. A couple weeks later, a DNA sample was taken from the shirt that the slain first-grader was wearing, and entered into a Texas Department of Public Safety database. It returned a possible match-19-year-old
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