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Motive and found something about her friend daniel that sent chills throughout the community. here's the conclusion of "friends until death." >> daniel bartelt confessed to a violent attack against a woman in a park. but after police spoke with them, they realized he could also be guilty of something far worse. did you leave that interview having any doubt that dan was the killer? >> none whatsoever. >> daniel told investigators 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 di...

A violent pornographic film with a plot eerily similar to how jessie was killed. prosecutors claim daniel used it as an instructional video. >> at some point in the movie he finds out a binding and places it around her neck and then strangled her. >> searches on serial killers and searches on bondage. >> did dan who was big into the theater, a straight a student, was he also a serial killer in training? >> i think that is the potential. >> prosecutors showed the jury all the physical evidence. the dna, the tape, the wipes, the likely murder weapons that tie daniel to jessie's death. through it...

Looking at me saying this. i'm thinking, kid, do you honestly believe i believe you with this. >> i think dan's a sociopath. he doesn't seem to have the conscious or if he does, he doesn't care. >> buck and joy have accepted they may never hear the truth from daniel or know why he turned so violent. daniel was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole. for the attacker on melissa richards, he was sentenced to five more years. >> melissa's our hero. if it wasn't for her, they wouldn't have caught him. we are forever indebted and grateful to her for that. >> the police and the blo...

Heard before. >> performed a dna analysis. >> dna that the state argued that showed he not only killed jessie, but also raped her. >> daniel's dna was found under jessie's fingernails and inside her which was one of the toughest pieces of evidence to combat in front of the jury. >> difficult, difficult. didn't have really an alternate explanation for that. and don't have one as i sit here right now. >> in any case, daniel was never charged with rape. and for the murder, the defense rested without calling a single witness to the stand. the jury deliberated just three hours. >> we the jury find ...

Arrest, but were far from finished. the reason. remember what he told detectives when they reached him by phone. >> a house in hartford. jessie blodgett. >> the confessed attacker was also a friend of jessie's. >> is that the girl that just passed? >> yeah. we were visiting his parents. >> his name was daniel bartelt. dan to his friends and he was the same dan jessie had been writing this music with this summer. detective clasking called police right away. they had a suspect in custody. jessie's parents refused to believe the news. >> no, not this kid. >> he's a friend of ours. >> he's a littl...