12yr old Sleuth Solves Family Robbery ...

Jessica Maple's detective skills led to a suspected robber's confession.

Jessica Maple, 12 years old, cracks case of burglary at late-great grandmother's home in Fitzgerald, Ga., after attending summer program at Fulton County District Attorney's Office.Just as she attended a forensics class, someone burglarized the home of Jessica's late, great-grandmother in Fitzgerald, Ga. Jessica investigated, and found where the burglars broke in. The police had missed it. She recounted the reaction she received from authorities for Channel 2’s Jeff Dore. “Like, oh my gosh, how'd she find that?” Jessica said. But that wasn’t all. Jessica and her mom went to a local pawn shop and found her great-grandmother's property.

“We called the police station and the guy, the investigator, he was like, ‘Oh my gosh, how'd you find all the stuff here? I was coming here.’ And I was like, ‘I did your job again,’” said Jessica. Jessica and her mom also learned that the pawn shop owner had copies of the IDs of the guys who sold the stuff. And then, believe it or not, she and her mom drove to the guy's house and confronted him. “And he said he did it,” said Jessica.


http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/teen-sleuth-solves-family-robbery-14340144?tab=9482931§ion=1206833

Encyclopedia Brown was my hero...

Miss Marple.

Other that, cool story...

She would make a great police chief or sheriff, wouldn't she?

Wonderful story.

At first I thought it was a take-off on one of the many teenaged mysteries I read as a kid.