DETROIT - Bianca Jones was 2 years old when she disappeared six years ago, and her father, D'Andre Lane, was convicted of her murder. Lane is serving a life sentence in prison.

But Bianca's body was never found, and new witnesses said they've seen the little girl alive. The Local 4 Defenders spoke to a police officer and the prosecutor in the case, and they said the jury got it right.

The case was entirely circumstantial. Even the judge was surprised there was a conviction without a body. The key witness in the trial was a cadaver dog, which the defense team called unreliable.

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Lane's car was found still running just blocks from where he said he had been carjacked by a gunman who kidnapped his daughter. Police called his claim a desperate lie.

 They're not there to harm a child,  retired Detroit police officer Lori Dillon said.  They don't want a child in the car. It's interrupting their crime. They want the car. 

Lane's attorney, Terry Johnson, said police officers should not make assumptions.

 I don't know if it was necessarily a carjacking as much as it was a kidnapping,  Johnson said.  I don't know if someone owed a debt to someone and this was a way of repaying that debt.

Johnson claims the police had an agenda.

 They started that evening with Mr. Lane, and they never took their foot off the accelerator,  Johnson said.

Police said Lane's story didn't add up. He called a friend, not 911, and when he did talk to police, they said he didn't have much information.

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 They're trying to pry information out of him,  Dillon said.  'What happened?' And you can hear him barely talking. 

Prosecutors think Lane tossed his daughter's body into a dumpster and lied about where he was.

 Once they realized that he spent 17 minutes east of Woodward (Avenue), unaccounted for, they tried to halt the trash pickup in that area, but it was too late,  Dillon said.  The trash had already been picked up. 

Police were especially

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