and then something odd happened. daniel changed his own story a little. remember the story of where he was day of the murder? this time, he added something. 10:15 to 10:20 you were at starbucks. where did you go? to white rock lake. okay, specifically at white rock lake, where? well, i went to walmart first, and then to white rock lake. okay. you can t leave that out. so you go straight from starbucks to walmart. uh-huh. you how long, what did you do at walmart? i got hair dye, soap and gloves to color my hair. reporter: wait, walmart? he did not reveal any stop at walmart during his first interview. and then, he amended his story again. just slightly. after the walmart and the trip to white rock lake, he said, he went to visit that friend, jessica. discovered she wasn t home.
eventually came out to me. i had essentially just started to figure he was anyways. and, you know, it s i was absolutely cool with it. i had no problem. reporter: but did he, like, make a request? did he want to have the a romantic relationship with you? no, he never he never made any kind of request like that towards me. reporter: shelley s mother cynthia had heard a thing or two about daniel as well. from shelley, who told her some stories about what happened when she started dating nathan. trying to corner her in the hallways at school. texting her on the phone. trying to call her and saying, we need to talk. she s like, what does he need to talk to me about? she said, he s really weirding me out. reporter: and she kept refusing to talk to him. she s not a confrontational type person. she didn t want to know what it was he wanted. she says she ended up asking nathan. and come to find out he was just insulted that they weren t inviting him to go out with them on
he had like a bad mood or something. for what? did he tell you? no. right before i went to sleep, i heard him crying in his room. what was he crying for? do you know? did you approach him about that? i knocked on his door, he i asked him if, like, are you okay? and he said, yeah, why? cause i heard you crying. and he was like, no. but his face was red because like, you know when people cry and their faces are red he didn t tell you why he was crying? i didn t know if he was or not because he said he is not crying in any case he was upset - you lived with this guy for so long and you d know obviously if something was bothering him. which is what their friend, chris phillips, thought, too. daniel knew nathan well. in fact, said chris, daniel kept a helpful eye out for a lot people at the school. he was very bright, friendly, eager to help anyone out.
i know what the evidence is going to tell me. reporter: he shoved a photo of shelley, dead, covered in blood, in front of daniel. remember her looking like that? that s your handiwork. that s what she looked like when you finished with her. look at her. don t cover her face. look at her. that s what you did to her. that s what you did to her. that s what her mommy and daddy had to look at. what do you think about that? look at this! look at it! think about the last words she said. think about the last words you heard that say that girl say before she took her last breath. you think about it. how can you live with yourself? take your damn hand away from your eyes and look at me and
daniel turned out to be something of a neat freak and well, needy, maybe? i i m a college guy, so i wanted to interact with women and bring them to our apartment and stuff. and he, he wasn t very excited about that. he was he he didn t really want me to bring people to the apartment that he didn t know. and reporter: people or women? well, it was it was i guess it was it was both. reporter: did you understand what this was all about? you know, at at first, i didn t. but over time let s see. what s what s a good word for it? kind of needy, you know, towards me. like he needed me to hang out with him more than anybody else. reporter: he wanted to be central in your existence. right, yeah. reporter: did you understand when you were first hanging out with him and and deciding to move in there that he was gay? no, i i i didn t know. but as time went on, he