in the park case got a huge break, one that would he change the course of both investigations. melissa s description of her attacker s van triggered the memory of a deputy who routinely patrolled the park where she was assaulted. the deputy had approached us and the detective bureau and said weeks ago i was in that parking there was a van parked in the exact same spot that you have described park the exact same way. at the, time the deputy thought the van seemed suspicious and ran its license plate, but he found nothing alarming and continued his patrol. now his intuition is telling him that the van was the same one involved in melissa s attack. he had no paper record of the plate, but in his squad car, the computer kept a log of old searchers and after hours of backtracking, bingo. wasn t a bingo, but it was very close. close? the van belong to laura and melvin. records show that melvin was too old to be malicious attack or. but they learned that they bartelt s had a 19 year
and jessie s family. i can t give you the answer that you are looking for,. when dateline continues eastern welcome back to dateline, i m natalie morales. as police searched for evidenc against jessie blodgett killer, they also looked for a motive and found something about jessie s friend daniel that sent chills throughout th community. here is andrea canning with th conclusion of friends unti death war. daniel bartelt had confesse against a violent attack against a woman in the park. but after police spoke with him, they realize that he could als be guilty of something far worse. did you leave that intervie having any doubt that dana was the killer none whatsoever daniel told investigators that on the morning that jessi was killed, he was in a park reading a book and when they
never not one friend? never the interviews with jessi blodgett s friends reveale nothing new and then detective in the park case got a hug break, one that would he chang the course of both investigations melissa s description of her attacker s van triggered the memory of a deputy who routinely patrolled the park where she was assaulted. the deputy had approached u and the detective bureau and said weeks ago i was in that parking there was a van parked in the exact same spot that yo have described, parked the exact same way at the, time the deputy thought the van seemed suspicious and ran its license plate, but he found nothin alarming and continued his patrol now his intuition is telling him that the van was the sam one involved in melissa tack he had no paper record of th plate, but in his squad car, the computer kept a log of old searchers and after hours of backtracking, bingo. wasn t a bingo, but it wa very close close
i m natalie morales. as police searched for evidence against jessie blodgett s killer, they also looked for a motive and found something about jessie s friend daniel that sent chills throughout the community. here is andrea canning with the conclusion of friends until death war. daniel bartelt had confessed against a violent attack against a woman in the park. but after police spoke with him, they realize that he could also be guilty of something far worse. did you leave that interview having any doubt that dana was the killer? none whatsoever. daniel told investigators that on the morning that jessie was killed, he was in a park reading a book and when they checked the security cameras,. we found video that put him there. but that did not mean that daniel was innocent. detectives decided to search the park, combing through more
police continued to look for new leads in jessie s case. one by one, it called on her heartbroken friends to ask them what they knew. did you consider any of her friends as possible suspects? not for. not one friend? never. the interviews with jessie blodgett s friends revealed nothing new and then detectives in the park case got a huge break, one that would he change the course of both investigations. melissa s description of her attacker s van triggered the memory of a deputy who routinely patrolled the park where she was assaulted. the deputy had approached us and the detective bureau and said weeks ago i was in that parking there was a van parked in the exact same spot that you have described park the exact same way. at the, time the deputy thought the van seemed suspicious and ran its license plate, but he found nothing alarming and continued his patrol.