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By Jason Taylor Apr 21, 2021 IOWA CITY, Iowa - A fourth and final finalist to be the next University of Iowa president has been announced by the state Board of Regents. Daniel Clay is the Dean of the University of Iowa College of Education. Hell take part in a public forum on campus Thursday afternoon at 3:30, and will also be visiting on campus Friday. Clay joins Georgia State University Provost Wendy Hensel, University of Illinois Academic Affairs Vice President Barbara Wilson and Penn Stat...

Board of Regents announces fourth UI president finalist Wednesday, April 21, 2021 11:23 AM The Iowa Board of Regents has announced the fourth finalist in the search for the next president of the University of Iowa. Daniel Clay, dean of the College of Education at the University of Iowa, will meet with faculty, staff, students and other members of the campus community on Thursday and Friday. Before coming to UI in 2016, Clay was the dean of the College of Education a...

By Jason Taylor Apr 21, 2021 IOWA CITY, Iowa - A fourth and final finalist to be the next University of Iowa president has been announced by the state Board of Regents. Daniel Clay is the Dean of the University of Iowa College of Education. Hell take part in a public forum on campus Thursday afternoon at 3:30, and will also be visiting on campus Friday. Clay joins Georgia State University Provost Wendy Hensel, University of Illinois Academic Affairs Vice President Barbara Wilson and Penn Stat...

>> no. >> did you have intention but it just slipped, it got out of control? >> no, i didnt do that to her. >> or was it an accident? >> i had sex with a girl. thats it. >> it was like for a split second time stopped for daniel clay. because now hes thinking in his head about all them lies that he just told me prior to that he dont know her, never had contact with her. >> nothing. >> nothing. no contact with chelsea, nothing. now im telling him that dna was recovered on her costume, his dna. so ...

Violence. i just like smoking weed and having sex. >> sex and pot, oh, he probably liked those things a lot, didnt he? but peace, nonviolence? time to figure out mr. clay. and this was when the detective went to work. >> you told me you never had sex. >> never had sex or nothing. >> would there be any reason that your dna would be on chelsea bruck. >> no. >> or on her clothes or in her hair? >> not to my knowledge. >> a good interrogation is like peeling an onion. coming up, daniel clays story s...

Around from house to house, girlfriend to girlfriend, has a few kids. >> not doing well in life. >> unemployed. >> oh, boy. >> we found hed actually been arrested a month or two prior, i believe it was may 2016 by the rural city police for a lrsany for person where he stole a backpack with some tattoo equipment off of somebody. >> a petty crime essentially. >> but its a felony. >> and unfortunately for daniel clay the law in michigan had recently changed. under the old law only dna from convicte...

Prosecutor rory insisted. and he implored the jury, just look at the evidence. >> the defendant murdered chelsea bruck, and then he discarded her lifeless naked body in those woods in an attempt to hide the evidence of his wrongdoing and escaping a measure of justice for what he had just done. >> not enough, argued defense attorney smith. oh, they should find daniel guilty, he said, but of manslaughter, not murder. daniel clay had no reason to kill chelsea and no motive to do so. >> he caused he...

Evidence said the prosecutor from daniel clays lies to the dna to broken facial bones, the blood inside the costume added up to first degree murder. but daniels defense attorney russell smith countered, uh-uh, his client killed chelsea, yes, but this was no murder. >> the tragedy of this young lady is no longer with us. but the facts these two people got together and one of these people passed away is not proof of murder. >> he argued it was just a horrible accident caused by choking during cons...

Daniel clay went on trial for murder in may 2017. and as chelseas family and friends gathered here at the monroe county courthouse the prosecutors prepared it deal with a tricky problem. daniel clay had confessed to an accidental killing. they needed to prove it was really murder. >> because theres only one person alive who knows what really happened that night and thats daniel clay, and hes certainly no friend to the truth. >> although lead prosecutor rory admitted some of daniels story was pla...

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 5 1/2 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 he was going the wrong direction and confront him on that, try to get out of the vehicle? di...