The childhood friend of a missing Michigan woman has been arrested for her murder.

Jordan McClanahan, 23, turned himself into police on Tuesday, allegedly admitting to murdering his longtime friend Jessica Leigh White, 21.

White was last heard from the night of April 23, when she sent her mother and sister a text message from McClanahan's house in Hazel Park, saying 'Jordan’s dad is cussing him out. this is awkward.' Her phone was shut off an hour later and she was never seen again.

Police visited the home twice in the ensuing days as family and friends searched for White, but they never found sign of White's body.

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Jordan McClanahan, 23 (left), turned himself into police on Tuesday, admitting to killing his friend Jessica Leigh White, 21 (right), who has been missing since April 23

Cops searched McClanahan's home after he turned himself in and found White's body in an attic crawl space

Meanwhile, McClanahan claimed that White left that night to visit another friend in Detroit, and he even aided family and friends in the search for the missing woman. Neighbors also say he was acting normal, going for runs around the neighborhood.

The last message White sent to her family the night of April 23, when she was allegedly visiting McClanahan at his home. She said the situation was 'awkward'

'It's disturbing to know that this gentleman was assisting the family in attempting to locate a person that he knew (was dead),' Hazel Park Police Chief Martin Barner said. 'We know they have been friends since grade school.'

McClanahan lives in the home with his father and brother, who accompanied him to the police station Tuesday night when he turned himself in.

Cops then conducted a third search of the home and found White's body hidden 'in an enclosed attic' accessed by a door in McClanahan's bedroom which is concealed by a desk.

White's mother, Karen White, spoke with the Detroit News after her daughter's body was found on Tuesday.

She says she received a text late Tuesday night, that another search was being conducted at McClanahan's house.

'I waited out on the sidewalk until someone could talk to me and they said they had found her ... but couldn’t give me any more details. I don’t know what they did to her but they said they still had to get a positive ID. But they know it’s her.

'Things are pretty confusing right now. I can’t tell you when I slept last. But I knew something was wrong — and I knew something had happened in that house,' White said.

An autopsy shows that White died of strangulation with a ligature. Hazel Park police did not reveal any more details on how she died or the motivation for the murder. Authorities say McClanahan and White appeared to be just friends and were not in a romantic relationship.

McClanahan remains in police custody and is expected to be formally charged with felony murder on Thursday.

Jordan's father and brother told police that they didn't know what had happened until Tuesday, when they accompanied him to the police station. Two men who appear to be McClanahan's relatives seen walking outside of the house on Wednesday

McClanahan posted this picture of himself and a woman, who appears to be White, to Facebook last year. Jessica commented on the picture 'I was so gone that day lmao'

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Michael's father and brother claimed they didn't know about the murder or about McClanahan hiding the body in the home until the day he turned himself into police. Police say the two men have been cooperative in the investigation.

'It’s as new to us as it is to everybody else,' McClanahan's father Michael, 65, told the Detroit Free Press on Wednesday. 'I'm just so sorry for the family. ... It’s just a shock. It was late yesterday when we found out.'

As for the argument he and his son were having, which White texted her mother and sister about, Michael said 'I chewed him out' about dropping his phone and White 'just happened to be there'.

He says he has no idea while his son would have killed White.

White's mother says her daughter went over to the house because she pitied him.