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He was taken to his cell. >> jessica, it's daniel. i'm going to jail for a while, a long while. >> and she's crying, hysterical. she took a breath and she said her son's dad had killed chelsea. and she was like i'm 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 to kill chelsea. the ladies man was going to trial. coming up -- the prosecution says it was mur...

It was just unreal. >> what's that feel like to get that result? >> it's the closure you're 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, chelsea's favorite color. her mom spoke directly to daniel. and what she said surprised many here. >> today with the strength from jesus christ i forgive daniel clay because if i don't all that has happened th...

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 didn't 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 clay's claim that chelsea asked him to choke her and after 20 or 30 seconds she expired, from the stand here's what the medical examiner said about that. >> there was nothing left for me to evaluate whether or not chelsea h...

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 detective's lure lingers around. >> i think you're 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 all of daniel's denials dna doesn't lie, and his dna was on chelsea's costume. and so the questio...

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 that's 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 i've heard of that. i had my hand broke one time real -- and he goes on. >> the detective could almost see...