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Jessie sounds like an old soul. Is that fair . She liked old people stuff. Yeah, she did. I dont really know many High Schoolers that are superactivist about animal rights. She made herself wellversed in a lot of different opinions and viewpoints. Reporter jessie wanted t make a difference that much was clear. But what made her happiest was sharing her gift. Every time i went over to jessies house, she would always be playing the piano. Even though when i was trying to talk to her, shed be like ...

  December 12, 1947 - October 12, 2023   Beloved husband, father and grandfather, Dale Robert Bartelt, 75, of Mediapolis, died Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, at the Southeast Iowa Regional Hospice House in West Burlington.

To how jessie was killed >> prosecutors say that daniel used as an instructional video >> he pulls out a binding in places it around her neck, h then strangles her >> there were searches o serial killers there were surges on bondage >> did dan then, who was big into theater, a straight a student, was he also a seria killer in training >> i think that is the potential. >> these items >> prosecutors showed the jury all of the physical evidence the dna, the tapes, the wipes, the likely murder weapo...

Didnt have an alternate explanation that and dont have one as i si here right now >> in any case, daniel was never charged with rape and fo the murder, the defense rested without calling a signal witness to the stand when the jury deliberated fo just three hours >> we the jury find th defendant daniel bartelt guilt with intentional homicide. ladies and gentlemen, was sheer verdict? >> not a good day for anybody. nobody won >> months later at the sentencing, buck stunned the courtroom when he sai...

Im your overly competitive brother. check. psych! really? dude, thats a foul! and now youre ready to settle the score. and if you dont have the right home insurance coverage, well you could end up paying for all this yourself. so get allstate. kid. he could make me laugh and h came from a nice family. >> we said that it is not dan, he is a good kid >> jessies friends agreed when detectives called daniel cell phone, they were with him at the house screaming together >> we were all crying, m frien...

What happened to dan >> daniel was officially charged with murder, buck an joy trying to wrap their heads around what had happened to th funny teenager who had nothing but empathy fo his parents. >> they did not do this, the did nothing wrong, the provided a great environment for him, for his sister, theyre good people. >> i cant say that he i totally evil, but somethin went very wrong, i dont kno what it, they also felt sorr for randy tally, the cas member briefly rumored to be involved, now co...

And jessies family. >> i cant give you the answer that you are looking for,. >> when dateline continues eastern >> welcome back to dateline, im natalie morales. as police searched for evidenc against jessie blodgett killer, they also looked for a motive and found something about jessies friend daniel that sent chills throughout th community. here is andrea canning with th conclusion of friends unti death war. >> daniel bartelt had confesse against a violent attack against a woman in the park. bu...

Assuming it was just routine questioning about jesse. and we were like they migh question you as a suspect. thats what theyve been doing to all of her male friends he was like, i didnt even think about that >> now, even with dan unde arrest for the park attack they could not imagine tha their friend was capable o murder >> i was thinking that it was mistake, like yes, maybe dan did attack this girl and ric field, but there is no way tha he couldve killed our friend. >> but the detective who jus ...

Checked the security cameras,. >> we found video that put him there. >> but that did not mean tha daniel was innocent. detectives decided to search the park, combing through more than a dozen garbage pins. hoping to find anything that linked daniel to jessie murder >> in one garbage, can thi cereal box full of ligatures. >> ropes that were very likely the murder weapons used to strangle jessie, plus a whol lot more bloody sanitizing wipes, tape, shoelaces. >> i guess he didnt believe that we wou...

Kid, do you honestly believe that i believe you with this >> i think that dan is a sociopath, he does not seem to have the conscience, or if h does, he does not care >> buck and joy have accepte that they may never hear the truth from daniel or know wh he turned so violent daniel was sentenced to life i prison without the chance of parole for the attack on meliss richards, he was sentenced t five more years. >> melissa is our hero, if i wasnt for her, they would not have caught him. we are forev...