The body of a six-year-old girl found dead last week in South Carolina was returned to her home town (Cayse, South Carolina) with a police escort yesterday after an autopsy was finished in Charleston.

First grader Faye Marie Swetlik had been playing outside her home when she went missing last Monday. More than 250 officers and investigators searched for her. They found her body on Thursday.

Her death is being investigated as a homicide. Details about how she died have not been released.

Investigators found a man dead inside his South Carolina home shortly after finding an item that belonged to Faye, who lived in his neighborhood, inside his trash can.

The girl’s body was found in the woods, and police think it was put there after investigators found the evidence inside the trash can.

Officers didn’t directly link the death of 30-year-old Coty Scott Taylor, whose body was found at his home, to the girl’s murder.

More than 250 officers searched for the girl over three days. They knocked on every door in the neighborhood and Taylor spoke to police in his home before the evidence was discovered.

The girl’s disappearance shocked Cayce, a town of about 13,000 people just west of Columbia. Several prayer vigils were held while she was missing and after her body was found.