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Dateline-20220214-08:32:00

they kept talking. and then daniel admitted he did have sex with a woman at the party. could it have been chelsea? well, maybe. >> when i ask you about chelsea bruck and having sex, there's a possibility? >> there is a possibility. >> so that means -- >> i had sex with someone that night. like i was out in the car and -- somebody and then not long after i talked to my baby mama, got in the car, and left. >> okay. >> so, time to reel in the fish. >> this is the thing. hear me out, i have been nice. i think i have been a pretty -- a gentleman to you. >> yeah. >> really, and you have to me. all right. there are some things you haven't told me. all right, but we're getting there. i do not think you're a murderer. i'm being up front. i'm being honest with you. i have been honest with you 100 percent. i think something happened. you did not have any intent to hurt her. >> i didn't do anything to her. she was fine and breathing when i left her. she got out of the car and walked away.

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Dateline-20220214-08:38:00

>> they arrested him then -- for murder. but before the news went public, becky heard about it, and this was an added shock. the friend who told her about daniel's arrest, a woman named jessica, also worked at olga's kitchen, and has a son with, of all people, daniel clay. daniel had called jessica before he was taken to his cell. >> jessica, it's dan. i'm going to jail for a while. a long while. >> and she's crying hysterical. she took a big breath, and she said her son's dad had killed chelsea, and she's 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 murder. >> he obviously used massive force against her and ultimately killed her. >> daniel clay takes the stand to say, it wasn't.

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Dateline-20220214-08:35:00

about chelsea bruck except us and her mother, is that she had brittle bone disease. brittle bone disease is a simple -- >> [inaudible] >> -- a touch, a tap where [bleep] breaks. >> like my bones, i break my fingers a lot because of it. >> 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 and 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, that -- brittle bone -- i've heard of that. that's -- i had my hand broke one time real -- and he goes on. >> the detective could almost see the wheels turning in daniel's head. if her bones broke easily, could he say her death wasn't his fault? daniel, not so calm anymore, asked for a cigarette and told a new story that he saw chelsea walking down the road after the party and offered her a ride.

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Dateline-20220214-08:33:00

>> daniel, figured detective preadmore, must have assumed they found semen dna, so he told that consensual sex story. but then det. preadmore revealed a little more -- that dna, he told daniel, wasn't semen. it was skin cells, recovered where chelsea's costume had been violently ripped at the straps and the crotch. >> i have your dna where her stuff was torn. nobody other's, nobody else's. no one. >> okay. >> either something happened where it was intentional, unintentional, accidental, so listen to me. now is the time for you to tell us what happened because are you that monster murderer? >> no. >> did you have intention, but it just --

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Dateline-20220214-08:34:00

it just got -- it just slipped, it got out of control? >> no, i didn't do that to her. >> or was it an accident? >> i had sex with a girl. that's it. >> it was like -- it -- for a split second, time stopped for daniel clay because now he's thinking in his head about all them lies that he just told me prior to, that he don't know her. never had contact with her, nothing, nothing. no contact with chelsea, nothing. now i'm telling him that dna was recovered on her costume, his dna. so daniel clay now has to rewind and see how he's going to cover up with lies, the lies that he's already told me. >> and then det. preadmore told daniel a lie. >> and i'm going to tell you one thing that nobody knows

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Dateline-20220214-08:31:00

a backyard halloween bash in 2015. july 2016, 21 months and 1,037 tips after the untimely death of chelsea bruck. detective mike preadmore confronted daniel clay, the ladies'man whose dna was on chelsea bruck's halloween costume. >> you never had sex with chelsea at the party? >> no. >> before the party, after the party? >> nothing. i didn't even know her. >> like a patient fisherman, the detective flicked lures around his suspect. >> you're a lucky man. i wish girls just -- >> be confident. just talk to them. >> i think i'm a pretty confident kind of guy. >> do you have a wife? >> i do have a wife. that's probably the problem. >> so it went. 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 question -- how could that be? >> i did not do anything to that girl. i did not. i'm telling you. >> he was adamant.

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Dateline-20220214-08:46:00

>> and all those strands of evidence, said the prosecutor, from daniel clay's lies to the dna, the broken facial bones, the blood inside the torn costume added up to first-degree murder. but daniel's defense attorney russell smith countered, huh-uh, his client killed chelsea, yes, but this was no murder. >> it's a tragedy that this young lady is no longer with us, but the fact that these two people got together and one of these people passed away is not proof of murder. >> he argued it was just a horrible accident caused by choking during consensual sex. and he put on his own forensic pathologist to argue that as well. >> some type of neck compression, strangulation. >> though the expert conceded there was no physical proof of that. but he disagreed with the state's conclusion that chelsea

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Dateline-20220214-08:44:00

but could choking have killed her so quickly? >> it is not a ten-or 20-or even a 30-second process. >> no, said the medical examiner. and certainly not by accident. >> and with constant pressure placed on their neck, a person will loose consciousness within 20 to 30 seconds. after that point, the constant pressure has to be maintained on the neck of an unconscious person for an additional two to two and a half minutes before that victim is dead. >> if the jury couldn't believe daniel's choking story, what would they think about this? >> in this case, chelsea's costume spoke for her. in fact, it really shouted for her. >> the poison ivy costume. daniel had told detectives she removed it by herself, willingly. not possible, said leah hubbard. >> in reality, it would have taken quite a bit more force than chelsea would have been able to exert to remove the garment. >> prosecutors called a state

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>> 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 his advances for sex? we don't know. something -- something set him off, though, and just made him snap. >> they arrested him then -- for murder. but before the news went public, becky heard about it, and this was an added shock. the friend who told her about daniel's arrest, a woman named jessica, also worked at olga's kitchen, and has a son with, of all people, daniel clay. daniel had called jessica before he was taken to his cell. >> jessica, it's dan. i'm going to jail for a while. a long while. >> and she's crying hysterical. she took a big breath, and she said her son's dad had killed

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i'm being honest with you. i have been honest with you 100 percent. i think something happened. you did not have any intent to hurt her. >> i didn't do anything to her. she was fine and breathing when i left her. she got out of the car and walked away. >> daniel, figured detective preadmore, must have assumed they found semen dna, so he told that consensual sex story. but then det. preadmore revealed a little more -- that dna, he told daniel, wasn't semen. it was skin cells, recovered where chelsea's costume had been violently ripped at the straps and the crotch. >> i have your dna where her stuff was torn. nobody other's, nobody else's. no one. >> okay. >> either something happened where it was intentional, unintentional, accidental, so listen to me. now is the time for you to tell us what happened because are you that monster murderer? >> no. >> did you have intention, but it just -- it just got -- it just slipped, it got out of control? >> no, i didn't do that to her. >> or was it an accident? >> i had sex with a girl. that's it. >> it was like -- it -- for a split second, time stopped for daniel clay because now he's thinking in his head about all them lies that he just told me prior to, that he don't know her. never had contact with her, nothing, nothing. no contact with chelsea, nothing. now i'm telling him that dna

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