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>> they arrested him then -- for murder. but before the news went public, becky heard about it, and this was an added shock. the friend who told her about daniels arrest, a woman named jessica, also worked at olgas kitchen, and has a son with, of all people, daniel clay. daniel had called jessica before he was taken to his cell. >> jessica, its dan. im going to jail for a while. a long while. >> and shes crying hysterical. she took a big breath, and she said her sons dad had killed chelsea, and ...

About chelsea bruck except us and her mother, is that she had brittle bone disease. brittle bone disease is a simple -- >> [inaudible] >> -- a touch, a tap where [bleep] breaks. >> like my bones, i break my fingers a lot because of it. >> so thats what happened. it was an accident. >> i had to do something to relax daniel clay and open him up to talk to me and tell me what happened. so this is where the brittle bone disease came in. and at that time, i think, in the interview, is where the turni...

Things a lot, didnt he. but peace? non-violence? hmmm. time to figure out mr. clay. and this was when detective preadmore went to work. >> you told me you never had sex with chelsea bruck. >> never had sex, never nothing with her. >> would there be any reason that your dna would be with chelsea bruck? >> no. >> or on her clothes or in her hair? >> not to my knowledge. >> a good interrogation is like peeling an onion to get to the truth at the core. coming up -- daniel clays story starts to chang...

Really have a permanent address. he just kind of flops around from house to house, girlfriend to girlfriend. he has a few -- a few kids. but he just kind of does his own thing. >> someone thats not doing very well in life? >> unemployed. >> oh, boy. >> and we had found out that he had actually been arrested a month or two prior -- i believe it was in may of 2016 -- by the monroe city police for a larceny from a person where he stole a backpack with some tattoo equipment off of somebody. >> a pet...

Hey, just hold off. you know, wait a minute. let us finish doing what were doing. and she put her foot down and she said, youre going to want to see this right now. so we stopped, and she handed me the lab sheet, and it was a confirmation of dna. >> it was a match to the unknown male dna on chelseas costume. but it was not the guy in the party video. it wasnt any of the men theyd been looking at. they could clear them all, including big mike. no, this was someone else. someone new! >> daniel cla...

Suspect. and questions about the halloween party may have come as a surprise. >> so what time did you go to the party? >> about 8:00, 9:00. i was out of there about 10:00 or 11:00. >> did he say he knew chelsea? >> he denied ever knowing chelsea. didnt see chelsea, never heard of her, didnt know her, until later on he s -- he watched stuff on the news and that about this girl that went missing. but denied ever knowing her. >> still, said mr. clay, he did know a lot of women. he was a lover of wo...

And he found himself driving. >> driving, he said, until he stopped by these railroad tracks and carried her body to this wooded property and tried to hide her with leaves and branches. he claimed he simply had no idea how her costume ended up in that abandoned building five and a half miles away. >> i dont believe we ever got the full true story of what daniel clay did to chelsea. >> something made him snap. we dont know. did chelsea simply ask for a ride home and realize that he was going the ...

Somewhat more likely that she might have accepted a ride from the defendant whom she would probably have been acquainted. >> but what happened after that, the state argued, chelsea did not agree to. >> it seems fairly likely that daniel clay demanded of chelsea that -- something that she didnt want to provide to him, and he obviously used massive force against her to get what he wanted and ultimately killed her in the process. >> daniel clays claim that chelsea asked him to choke her and after 2...