Page 6 - Daniel Clay News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Really have a permanent address. he just kind of flops around from house to house, girlfriend to girlfriend. he has a few -- a few kids. but he just kind of does his own thing. >> someone that's not doing very well in life? >> unemployed. >> oh, boy. >> and we had found out that he had actually been arrested a month or two prior -- i believe it was in may of 2016 -- by the monroe city police for a larceny from a person where he stole a backpack with some tattoo equipment off of somebody. >> a petty crime, essentially. >> but it's a felony. >> and unfortunately for daniel clay, the law in michi...

Hey, just hold off. you know, wait a minute. let us finish doing what we're doing. and she put her foot down and she said, you're going to want to see this right now. so we stopped, and she handed me the lab sheet, and it was a confirmation of dna. >> it was a match to the unknown male dna on chelsea's costume. but it was not the guy in the party video. it wasn't any of the men they'd been looking at. they could clear them all, including big mike. no, this was someone else. someone new! >> daniel clay. >> had you ever heard of daniel clay before? >> never. never heard -- >> and he'd never come...

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, 9:00. i was out of there about 10:00 or 11:00. >> 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 s -- he watched stuff on the news and that about this girl that went missing. 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 already had two children with two women, anothe...

And he found himself driving. >> driving, he said, until he stopped by these railroad tracks and carried her body to this wooded property and tried to hide her with leaves and branches. he claimed he simply had no idea how her costume ended up in that abandoned building five and a half miles away. >> i don't believe we ever got the full true story of what daniel clay did to chelsea. >> something made him snap. we don't know. did chelsea simply ask for a ride home and realize that he was going the wrong direction and then confront him on that? try to get out of the vehicle? did she turn down hi...

Somewhat more likely that she might have accepted a ride from 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? on the stand, here's what the medical examiner said about that. >> th...