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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. didn't see chelsea, never heard of her, didn't 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, he did know a lot of women. he was a lover of women, he told the detectives, a real ladies man. he ...

Wouldn't they? >> no. there was -- ifthey wouldn't? 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 that's when you contacted the police? >> no. >> in fact, you never reported ms. bruck missing or murdered, did you? you never reported where her body was? >> i didn't remember where her body was. >> you never...

Cause of death. there's 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 god's 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 chelsea's face, he wasn't sure how that happened, he said, but he had some possible explanation. maybe he accidently hit her...

>> 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 smoke a cigarette. and we confirmed that was daniel clay. the deputies go up, knock on the door. the...

Have something here you're 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 we're doing. and she put her foot down and she said you're 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 chelsea's costume. it was not the guy in the party video. it wasn't any of the men they'd been looking at. they had cleared them all, including big mike. no, this was someone else, someone new. >...