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Jail. >> so when they put himmen an interview room daniel clay did not know he was a murder 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 or 9:00. >> 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 watched stuff on the news about this girl that went missing. >> yeah. >> but denied ever knowing her. >> still said mr. clay, h...

Wouldnt they? >> no. there was -- ifthey wouldnt? they looked, yes. >> if they would have looked. >> yes. >> but daniel said he was drunk and high that night and thought maybe it was all a bad dream. but then he said he saw on facebook that chelsea was missing. >> and that must have confirmed it in your mind yes, in fact, you did kill her. >> it started making things seem like -- >> and thats when you contacted the police? >> no. >> in fact, you never reported ms. bruck missing or murdered, did ...

Cause of death. theres a variety of things that could have occurred after death that could have resulted in these fractures. >> then the defense attorney called his only other witness, daniel clay himself. the one person who knew what really happened that night. and daniel swore his story about accidental choking was gods truth. and when she died, he said, he panicked. >> i was extremely emotional. never been in serious trouble in my life. >> as for the broken bones in chelseas face, he wasnt su...

>> that was one of our big things locating him. he was homeless and bouncing around from home, trailer to trailer. >> and imagine this, there were two warrants out for him for unpaid child support. so when they found out where he was, they setup surveillance and made a plan. to arrest him on those out standing warrants without telling him he was a murder suspect. that is if they can catch him. >> on at least one occasion we see a male subject come out of the front door, onto the front porch and ...

Have something here youre going to want to see. and we were pretty much focused on what we were doing at that time. we kind of said, hey, just hold off, wait a minute let us finish what were doing. and she put her foot down and she said youre going to want tosy this right now. so we stopped and she handed me the lab sheet. and it was confirmation of dna. >> it was a match to the unknown male dna on chelseas costume. it was not the guy in the party video. it wasnt any of the men theyd been lookin...

He was taken to his cell. >> jessica, its daniel. im going to jail for a while, a long while. >> and shes crying, hysterical. she took a breath and she said her sons dad had killed chelsea. and she was like im so sorry, and then i started crying because i felt bad for her. it was crazy that it was literally one person away, like in our circle. >> but daniel clay had only confessed to an accidental killing, not murder. so he pleaded not guilty. after all, no eyewitnesses, no hard proof he meant t...

It was just unreal. >> whats that feel like to get that result? >> its the closure youre looking for. you put so much time, effort. this was part of aerolife for several years and it comes down to that. and to get the conviction like that, it feels satisfying, and you feel very, very happy for the family. >> two months later everyone gathered again for sentencing, many wearing purple, chelseas favorite color. her mom spoke directly to daniel. and what she said surprised many here. >> today with ...

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 20 or 30 seconds she expired, from the stand heres what the medica...

July 2016, 21 months and 1,037 tips after the untimely death of chelsea bruck, the detective confronted daniel clay, the ladies man whose dna was on her halloween costume. >> you never had sex with chelsea bruck before the party -- >> after the party, i never -- >> like a patient fisherman the detectives lure lingers around. >> i think youre a pretty confident kind of guy. >> do you have a lawyer? >> i do have a lawyer. >> so it wept until calmly and quietly the detective broke the bad news. for...

Thing that nobody knows about chelsea bruck except us and her mother, she had brittle bone disease. brittle bone disease is a simple touch it breaks -- 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, 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 turning point, daniel clay kind of leaned back and was like, oh, yeah, yeah, the brittle bone ive hea...