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Haunting Testimony In Murder Trial Of Armada Teen April Millsap

MACOMB (WWJ) - Chilling testimony Thursday from an Oakland University professor, believed to be one of the last people to see murdered Armada teen April Millsap alive.

Mary Stein testified she said 'hi' to April Millsap, who was walking her dog on the Macomb Orchard Trail as Stein, and their husband rode her bikes. She says that she saw James VanCallis on the trail about 30 feet behind Millsap and he was off his motorcycle.

Stein says the girl had a tight smile, but didn't ask for help. But now she asks "what if?"

"I feel like, what if, like altogether, knowing what happened, there were signs but at the same time, she was not running and she did not ask for help," said Stein.

Stein said on the stand that April "seemed tense -- with this male ... it just seemed unusual."

"There was nothing to prompt us to turn around, so I know that we should not feel that way, but we still, if, if we would have stopped, we wonder," she testified.

Stein now has some regrets she didn't stop.

Police Chief Testifies During Trial 

Prosecutors contend the man with Millsap was suspect James Van Callis, who's charged with first-degree murder.

Defense attorneys had the defendant put on his motorcycle helmet to refute some other witnesses who claimed to see facial features and hair that wouldn't have been visible underneath.

Millsap was reported missing July 24, 2014, by her mother after she failed to return home from walking her dog, Penny, which she did nearly every night. Her body was found hours later in a drainage ditch along the Macomb Orchard Trail near Fulton and Depot roads in Armada. Penny alerted a couple of joggers to the girl's body.

Less than a month later, police named VanCallis — who was arrested alongside his father on drug charges after a search connected to the murder revealed an alleged marijuana growing operation at their home — as a person of interest in Millsap's death.

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