here is an interesting article that discusses the Search
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65 local, state, federal investigators on case. Some ask why Canton police didn't summon outside experts sooner.
The industrial trash compactor where her mangled body lay and the bloody apartment where she apparently was killed were discovered Monday within the complex. The breakthrough came after local officials called in a multi-agency state team specially trained in child abduction.
The sanitation company that owns the trash bin was preparing to haul it away Monday morning when a member of the state investigative unit intervened, Thigpen said. "We dumped the trash and within five minutes we had the body," she said.
Keenan said Canton police had not searched the trash bin where Jorelys' body was found because the contents were too tightly compacted.
Samples recovered from the apartment suspected as the crime scene have been sent to the State Crime Lab to determine if they are linked to Jorelys.
The state's Child Abduction Response Team was mobilized Sunday evening after Cherokee County Sheriff Roger Garrison phoned the GBI. Over the weekend, Canton police had conducted the search, at times rebuffing suggestions that they summon outside help, according to law enforcement officials who discussed the matter with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the condition of anonymity.
Canton Police Chief Jeff Lance did not respond Tuesday evening to a phone call and an email asking him to discuss why he did not place the call to the state's special unit.
By Monday, after the team was mobilized, more than 50 GBI agents, Georgia State Patrol troopers, Department of Natural Resources rangers and other state officers were on hand to assist local police and firefighters.
Troopers were dispatched to check licenses and cars on the road in front of the complex. Thigpen said they had two machines that read license plates and instantly check for warrants, stolen car reports or registrations to sex offenders. Two drug-sniffing dogs also circled each car.
Over the weekend, Canton police had interviewed residents of the apartment complex and released pictures and a description of the missing Canton Elementary School first-grader. They also placed a call to the national nonprofit A Child is Missing, which then contacted about 17,000 households in the surrounding areas with a recorded message, notifying residents of the missing child and her description, according to A Child is Missing founder Sherry Friedlander.
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