the murder weapons used to strangle jessie, plus a whole lot more. bloody sanitizing wipes, tape, shoe laces. i guess he didn t believe that we would have made the effort to go through the garbage to find anything. police sent the evidence for testing and forensics showed that both jessie and daniel s dna were on the ropes found in the park. detebtiv detectived shared the incriminating evidence with jessie s parents. the other half of me was like, what happened to dan? daniel bartelt was officially charged with murder. buck and joy tried to wrap their heads around what happened to the funny teenager and had nothing but empathy for their parents. they didn t do this. they didn t do anything wrong. they provided a great environment for him and his sister. they re good people. i can t say he s totally evil