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>> last week i think >> daniel admitted to having a romantic feelings for jessie but swore through sobs that he had nothing to do with the murder >> what do you think happene too jessie >> i have no idea. >> do you think it could hav been accidental? >> i dont know why somebody would do that to her >> but detectives did no believe him and he fit the profile of the killer that the were looking for someone who knew jessie and he habits >> she usually wouldnt get up before 11 and 12, i would text o...

Friend it is crazy. >> it was the strangest mix of emotions when he walked in from the bac room of the courtroom, i wante to hug him and make him feel better i felt his humiliation and shame. i wanted to punch him. >> prosecutors said from the start that there was no easy explanation for why daniel did what he did. >> why did he pick jessie? was he mad jessie? now. he picked jessie because she was convenient >> the da did say that there was evidence that the seemingl sweet young man had been obs...

Defendant daniel bartelt guilty with intentional homicide. ladies and gentlemen, was a sheer verdict? >> not a good day for anybody. nobody won. >> months later at the sentencing, buck stunned the courtroom when he said this. >> dan, i forgive you. as i have every single day since we found it was you. >> in response to such unbelievable grace, daniel looked straightaway and buck and continued to deny his guilt. >> doc, joy, i cant give you the answers that you are looking for. i pray for you, fo...

The murder weapons used to strangle jessie, plus a whole lot more. bloody sanitizing wipes, tape, shoe laces. >> i guess he didnt 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 daniels dna were on the ropes found in the park. detebtiv detectived shared the incriminating evidence with jessies parents. >> the other half of me was like, what happened to dan? >> daniel bartelt wa...

Just got back from college but we dont think its dan. >> after all, dan was more than jessies friend. he was her first love in high school. >> he had everything going for him. he was a straight a student. got the lead role in most of the musicals. very talented. >> i like this kid because he could make me laugh and he came from a nice family. >> we said its not dan. hes a good kid. >> jessies friends agreed. when detectives called daniels cell phone they were with him at the blodgett house griev...

Motive and found something about her friend daniel that sent chills throughout the community. heres the conclusion of "friends until death." >> daniel bartelt confessed to a violent attack against a woman in a park. but after police spoke with them, they realized he could also be guilty of something far worse. did you leave that interview having any doubt that dan was the killer? >> none whatsoever. >> daniel told investigators on the morning that jessie was killed he was in a park reading a boo...

A violent pornographic film with a plot eerily similar to how jessie was killed. prosecutors claim daniel used it as an instructional video. >> at some point in the movie he finds out a binding and places it around her neck and then strangled her. >> searches on serial killers and searches on bondage. >> did dan who was big into the theater, a straight a student, was he also a serial killer in training? >> i think that is the potential. >> prosecutors showed the jury all the physical evidence. t...

Looking at me saying this. im thinking, kid, do you honestly believe i believe you with this. >> i think dans a sociopath. he doesnt seem to have the conscious or if he does, he doesnt care. >> buck and joy have accepted they may never hear the truth from daniel or know why he turned so violent. daniel was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole. for the attacker on melissa richards, he was sentenced to five more years. >> melissas our hero. if it wasnt for her, they wouldnt hav...

Heard before. >> performed a dna analysis. >> dna that the state argued that showed he not only killed jessie, but also raped her. >> daniels dna was found under jessies fingernails and inside her which was one of the toughest pieces of evidence to combat in front of the jury. >> difficult, difficult. didnt have really an alternate explanation for that. and dont have one as i sit here right now. >> in any case, daniel was never charged with rape. and for the murder, the defense rested without ca...

Arrest, but were far from finished. the reason. remember what he told detectives when they reached him by phone. >> a house in hartford. jessie blodgett. >> the confessed attacker was also a friend of jessies. >> is that the girl that just passed? >> yeah. we were visiting his parents. >> his name was daniel bartelt. dan to his friends and he was the same dan jessie had been writing this music with this summer. detective clasking called police right away. they had a suspect in custody. jessies p...