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kevin klym: i'm freaking out. it's not like her to be gone this long. >> hello i'm andrea canning and the medical examiner gets back on the phone and says, this is decline. >> she was a knock, outstanding. >> she stood out, tan, beautiful. >> a playboy model wannabe who loved to party, maybe a little too much. >> i'm freaking out, it's not like her to be gone that long, the medical examiner is back on the phone and says we are sending a detective. my heart sinks. >> he pulled a photocopy of her hearing and i knew it was her. >> and police thought they knew who killed her. >> they were having an argument he grabbed her arm, that's when i called security. >> i just said i hope we don't find out you did it. >> we were sitting there waiting and watching and then when we saw what we said wow, it was her. >> who was that stranger walking with her? >> the person in the sketch is seen walking towards paula and then they turn and walk off

together. >> hello and welcome to dateline, she was no stranger to a camera as a model the young woman's picture hugs. -- secretly recorded in the last hour hala, here's dennis murphy with death of a golden girl. >> new years 2010 was arriving on the shoe very night by miami standard, but temps in the low 60 weren't enough to -- and hear diving into the sizzle was a couple from michigan, paula sladewski and kevin klym, down from detroit for an impulse long holiday weekend. >> how did the idea for let's go down to miami came from? >> paula. >> she didn't skip on herself, she liked to live the good life

and going down to south beach that was it. >> down and back, hit the clubs, do some shots and hello 2010. >> it was great, we had it all figured out we would go to south beach celebrate the new year come back on monday. >> but come monday the living boyfriend girlfriend pair were not on a play to detroit, rather kevin klym was a worried guy, mentoring down paltry line boulevard in a city he didn't know looking for his girlfriend paula, she was missing. paula, the aspiring model with blond hair cascading down her back had absolutely vanished. looking back maybe if lady gaga hadn't been booked at the hotel for new year's eve, paula wouldn't have insisted on the last minute trip to miami and later gotten separated. but paul really wanted to see lady gaga's midnight show, one's down in miami kevin score tickets for $700 each, pricey but whatever baby wants. >> this is the hottest ticket in town, she heard the celebrities were gonna be there and she didn't want anything to do with anything else you had to see lady gaga.

>> their attendance at the show was documented by the guy behind them who took iphone videos of them dancing. men tended to do that when they saw paula all clumped out, 2010 at that moment, and for not much longer the starting off paula sladewski right in the sweet spot she loved so well. >> she likes celebrity, vip tables -- >> absolutely, that was her style. she was a beautiful girl you took one look at her -- she didn't take a ugly picture. >> she had a lot of them, pictures, had shots glamorous stuff at 26 years old she had come to know cameras very well. she was a model represented by a national agency and she had made the usual rounds, local commercials, pretty girl at the detroit car show. nothing really big until they said maybe. >> we're looking for a golden girl. >> paula tried out for national

playboy playmate search, think an american idol style cattle call with skimpier clothing. paula made it onto the 2003 video, playboy's 50th anniversary ultimate playmate search. she never got to be mid november, she didn't make the cut. still, her sister kelli remembers paul of being happy she tried. >> 500 women and only 50 got to make it on the anniversary-type video, so she was proud of that. >> it never broke for her did it? >> no. >> she talk to kevin about revving up her modeling dreams or fantasies one last time as soon as this miami trip was over. saturday january 2nd 2010 was still a vacation day for paul and her boyfriend.

they splurged and went to a hotel on the beach there on the strip they befriended a waiter and asked him what's up. >> i said i'm gonna be at space you're -- you should be at space. >> space to the locals, club space to out-of-towners, the hottest after our bar. it was only open one day a week, saturday 11 pm to sunday afternoon. so that night, kevin says, they had a romantic dinner on south beach where paul about this neon blue dress. they slept for a bit and woke up and got dressed. at 5:30 a. m. the couple went to club space. ♪ ♪ ♪ lady gaga now club space. paula and her six inch heels, sheer blue dress and her waist

length hair was a head turner even for a bartender like raymond diaz. >> she glowed in the dark, she was so blonde and really tan >> raymond, we're talking about miami, girls like that are diamond doesn't? >> she stood out, ten, beautiful eyes to me she was a model, on television or something. >> paula and kevin had been dating in living together for a couple of years, and he knew from painful experience what impact his girlfriend would have in a cavernous dance space jammed with single men powered by alcohol. paula sladewski was amazing. she seems to be the kind of girl that would go in a room and take the oxygen out of it? >> yes, she was a knockout, a stunner. >> paula dance flashing her new dress as people started circling her, kevin knew the drill run interference on the mend salivating for us best as he could. but these guys were making heavy moves on his woman won in particular. >> i turn around for a second

he is on or he has his hands around her ways crouch against her, and he's leaning down and she's looking over at me laughing and sing whatever and i said okay, we have to go. >> but paula lit up by the attention and the shooter she was downing had another idea, she was digging in her stilettos. >> i just wrapped around the waist in the form said come on, baby it's time to go i did the boyfriend shuffle, she said wait a minute i don't want to go. bam, bouncers are on me. they must of been watching or something because they were instantly on me. two guys on me. >> kevin was being ejected from the club by security, she was staying, she asked him for her credit card and he gave her to it. kevin said he wasn't going to reason with her in that haze, seething he got into a cab, still carrying her cell phone as he always did when they want clothing, and headed back over the cross way to the hotel room

on miami beach. as the sun came up that sunday morning, kevin klym crashed without his girlfriend. but if he paced about outside that club for only a few more minutes after he was tossed out, he would have seen paul of herself leaving just before 7:30 in the morning. she turned right at the sidewalk and disappeared, as they say, without a trace. >> coming up. kevin wakes up alone, but not worried, at least not yet. >> how do you impala hard nights that had ended like that before? >> yes, and she always came home. >> this time it would be different. when dateline continues. shingles strikes as a painful, blistering rash that can last for weeks. and it could wake at any time. think you're not at risk for shingles? it's time to wake up. because shingles could wake up in you. if you're over 50, talk to your doctor or pharmacist

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dennis murphy: three days into 2010 after a night of clubbing, kevin klym woke up in his miami beach hotel room with a throbbing head and minus his girlfriend paula sladewski. >> three days into 2010 after a night of clothing, kevin klym woke up in his miami beach hotel room with a throbbing head and minus his girlfriend, paula sladewski. it came back to him, club space the bouncers throw him out at dawn, paula electing to stay. how do you and paula had nights and had ended like that before? >> yes. ngos came home. >> so no big deal to at that point. >> i'm not happy, you know it's not the way i would've wanted my night and. >> kevin was starting to worry, but he also knew polak could be a tough detroit cookie when she needed to be. she's a big girl, knows how to

handle herself? >> she knows what she's doing, she's not naive. >> those growing up pictures of pretty paula mask the difficult home life with the absent father and lots of stepdads. when she was 14, she was dating a 29-year-old man, it was her older sister kelly, not her mother who called the authorities on it. >> i was very angry and upset, you know, she's 14, she's still a kid. my mother still let her date him and at one point i had to call child protective services. >> calling the watchdogs on your mother? >> yes. >> the man was arrested and convicted of having sex with a minor and sentenced to two years in prison. he was also put on a list of sex offenders, paula, meanwhile, waited till she he was released from prison and started dating him again. by then, she was of the age of consent. all before her time, but still

a dreamy little girl in some ways. that whole little girl fantasy of being the pin-up girl -- shampoo model, she had a lot of barbs? >> probably has over 500, been collecting them since she was a little girl. >> paula liked barbie so much she tried to become her, tall, thin with long golden hair. the world of modeling she hoped to enter wasn't taken with her real life barbie looks. >> several strip clubs gentleman's club in the greater detroit area where, she danced at the penthouse club there and saved her tips to pay for college tuition until she dropped out. she seemed to like being the woman men found so alluring. >> i think that is why ultimately, you know, she became a dancer. she was seeking militant shun.

you know, love that she didn't get growing up. >> so along comes kevin, new boyfriend and he has to deal with her being an exotic dancer. a successful one. >> we got to the point where she said this is it, take it or leave it and i said well, i love you that much i'm going to take it. >> the money from stripping was good enough to allow paul and kevin to move to los angeles. just in time for the housing bowel to -- into the ditch. paula kept on dancing and paid the bill.

for a few months they moved back and forth between places and michigan and california. now, she was gone, and he was a guy alone in the miami beach hotel with a desk clerk on the phone asking if he was going to roll over the room for another night. kevin got himself together and went down to ask the manager for help. >> she's like, listen, get yourself to get there we need to get the girl's picture out on the tv, and out on the airways. [crying] >> miami beach police told him he would have to file his missing persons report with the city of miami, a different jurisdiction. that's one club space was located, but the cops wouldn't

take's report 24 hours had passed. he had now last seen paula, about ten hours before. >> i'm freaking out, were from out of town invocation, it's not like her to be gone for that long. >> what happens the rest of the sunday night? >> hospitals in jails. hospitals, jails. space, hospitals, jails. >> kevin went back to club space which was closed late sunday night to ask the homeless in the area if they had seen paul la earlier that morning. after spending some money around he went to a gas station two blocks away. >> i'm in the taxi, get out, go inside, i talked to the clerk, i show him a picture of my girlfriend. >> that's kevin security camera. i >> say have you seen this girl, he says i haven't been

here that long. >> returning to his hotel room in the sleepless night that followed, he got an idea, call a private detective. he went online and started calling some numbers. the next morning, monday now, one of them a private investigator named dave wasser called kevin back. >> he was desperate, he said can you help me? i said, well, why don't you tell me a little bit about it i did a little pre-interview for the telephone and the nice and we have to meet at the city of miami police station. i can get you somehow. >> you've got to say what do i have here, what's going on? >> in the back of my mind i was wondering, you know, is this guy straight up with me or not. >> after filing a missing persons report kevin return to the hotel while the private eye, dave wasser, and the miami police went to clip space and

talk to the manager and two of the bouncers who work the door that early sunday morning. the people at the club said paula left the club alone, shortly after kevin. club policy they say is to remove both parties after a fight. mike samuels was the front man manager. >> she got to the sidewalk walk towards the east -- >> she is so low? >> 100% by herself. >> while his private detective followed up wafer thin leaves kevin decided to call the medical examiners office. >> i gave a very, very accurate description of her, and the medical examiner says, hold on a second. gets back on the phone and says we're sending a detective, my heart just sinks. >> the detectives asked kevin did paul of any body piercings, yes, he says, she did. >> he pulled out a bag, easy block baggy and there are two piercings, they are all charcoal, burnt, black and, you know? and he says wouldn't these beaver piercings, and i lean and i look close and i say no. >> detectives checked out some

photos of paul on kevin's iphone, they studied an earring. >> pulled out a photocopy of her hearing. and i knew's her. that was the worst day of my life. >> the earring, paul is earring, had been found at the scene of a burning dumpster, inside the dumpster they found the charritt >> and how was explain that lo the whe dance ere intense. for him a how was he going to explai whe were lrning abou a vimestic history wit his murdered girlfend, e woman found in a burning dumpster >> and how was he going to explain that lovers quarrel at the club, the very night of th murder coming up -- >> they were having an argument, he grabbed her arm, that's whe i called security. >> when dateline continues it helps remove odors 3x better than detergent alone. it worked guys! ♪yeahhhh♪ downy rinse and refresh. - bye, bye cough. - later chest congestion. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! not coughing? hashtag still not coughing?! mucinex dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night. mucinex dm. it's comeback season. every day, more dog people are deciding it's time for a fresh approach to pet food.

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couldn't tell at first, had been thrown away and torched. >> at the morgue the emmy confirmed everyone suspicion it was a woman's charge body, a jane doe. >> we're starting to contact other agencies and see if they had anybody missing checking missing persons report. >> the detective was with the medical examiner staff when the phone rang, it was kevin klym asking if they had found a young woman, his girlfriend paula sladewski, missing now for three days. >> described her to the investigators there at the medical examiner > dental records would later confirm that it was indeed paula sladewski. >> why would killers, why would they dispose of it the way that they did? >> you're looking at a couple of different aspects if you've been doing it for -- theirs hate involved or you're trying to cover something up, some type of evidence. >> dna, bodily fluids, skin under fingernails, the woman's

murder might assume all would be rendered just so much unreadable char. can you take us inside the head of the killer you're looking for? >> we have somebody who is comfortable in their surroundings. felt like they had a lot to lose if the woman was found. >> pretty quickly, the detective had a victim from michigan with a name and a boyfriend who had reported her missing, what is more he was still in south florida, what was his story, this kevin guy? on the one hand he appeared to be appropriately distraught, he was the one who filed a missing persons report and he was seen putting up posters around town with her photo on it. on the other hand, he was the boyfriend. that single fact alone made him a person of interest to the investigators. >> these type of cases you are going to talk with the person who last saw them, they are up the most information, what they were doing, who they were with. >> in addition to talking with him you want to strip off his clothes and see if he has any scratches on him. >> absolutely. >> --

we want to talk to you for a while? >> yeah. >> they came to my hotel around noon and by the time the detective dropped me off at my hotel it was 12:30 at night. >> detectives quickly learned the details weren't always pretty. kevin and paula's relationship had been rocky at times. court records in both california and michigan showed a history of domestic violence arrests between the two. one included paulas arrest in california for hitting captain with the bottle. the case was dropped when kevin refused to press charges. in the months prior to the miami trip, kevin was arrested twice for assaulting paul in michigan, the last time paul's nose had been broken. >> they had been together off and on, two years, there was a

history of domestic violence. >> you wonder right? >> you have to wonder, again this goes back to he is the last person to see her who knows her. you have to wonder about what is he not telling us? >> police say the victim's boyfriend is still considered a a person of interest. >> her boyfriend, a man with mugshots from a history of domestic violence. >> his name and background quickly got into the reported on the lurid murder. the reporters found the court records of domestic violence complaints, that didn't look good for the boyfriend. neither did the story told by the lady gaga concert goer who had taken iphone videos of kevin and paula. the cell phone photographer, john williams, went on tv and said he distinctively remembered the man who would've turned out to be kevin as someone acting too aggressively in the crowd. >> here is this guy who was really obnoxious and pushing through the crowd more so than anyone else i saw there. >> then there was a new lead to the coverage. according to tennis reports, sometimes, not clear when, but before her miami weekend, paula had allegedly sent a text

message to an ex-boyfriend saying, he is trying to kill me. he was kevin. >> they have to find who did this to my baby. >> paula's mother patsy watkins in michigan was killing anyone who listened that she had no use for kevin klym. >> she was scared, she called her ex boyfriend she texted him i am hiding from the beast. >> as she arranged for care for her murdered daughter's two dogs, she was preparing to tell detectives in miami what she had already told the tv cameras, she claimed her daughter was terrified of kevin klym. >> just the threats that echo in the back of my head to just write her life, she would never be able to work again. >> bad-mouthing family, and, that behavior at a lady gaga concert did not make for the foundation of the homicide case. so detectives came here to the club where she was last seen to get down exactly what that story was about how the two of them had come to be ejected from club space by bouncers. bartender raymond diaz told

about seeing the start of the trouble between them. >> they were having an argument, two or three feet in front of me, then he grabbed her arm -- >> took over physically? >> took hold of her physically by the arm and that's when i called security. >> the club managers explain the house policy of rejecting both parties when trouble flares. him, then her. so in the early hours of the case there was a lot of stuff swirling about kevin clam. he came across like a short fused guy who sometimes got physical. >> at the end of that first interview with kevin, the boyfriend, is he on your suspect list of people of interest? >> yes he is. >> he hasn't talked himself off the list? >> no he hasn't. >> at the end of his 12 hours of grilling kevin said he felt more like a prime suspect with a star next to his name, forget about person of interest. >> we know you did it, why did you do it? we don't think you're a bad guy, maybe you made a mistake, you know, all of this stuff and i was like, i can't tell you i did something i didn't do. >> in the court of public opinion it was looking as if

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carolina over the weekend. now, back to dateline. >> welcome back to dateline, i'm andrea canning. the headlines weren't good for the boyfriend, as reports of the couples domestic violence arrest surfaced many speculated kevin klym was a killer, but police were busy conducting a methodical investigation and they just uncovered a crucial clue. had the mystery man who murdered paula been captured on camera? here again is dennis murphy with death of a golden girl. >> paulo was dead, and the boyfriend kevin realized he was falling behind the curve on where the finger of suspicion pointed. do you volunteer the history, it's going to be recorded in the store newspapers in the next few days? >> signed a release, no warrants necessary, waved my miranda rights, let's do it because i need you to rule me

out immediately so we can find who killed her. >> the north miami detectives interviewed him for 12 hours before letting him leave. you're waiting to be arrested at that point? >> they didn't tell me anything, they just said, you know, i hope we don't find out you did it. >> very active, security upfront. >> meanwhile dave wasser private detective kevin had hired the day after paulo went missing was doing his own leg work. >> do you remember a white gentlemen -- >> he videotape interviews with people who hang around outside the club and handed out flyers. kevin was just a guy who had called the detective in the middle of the night, but there was something about the boyfriend that felt right in his gut. >> believe me everything that this guy went through he didn't go off the line for one bit. i've been interviewing criminals for a long time and this guy was straight-up. >> and soon the detective would meet an unlikely supporter of kevin's a member of paula's family her sister kelly faris who unlike her mother thought

that kevin was getting a bad rap in the media, not that he was blameless. he >> he shouldn't have left her and he will regret that for the rest of his lot, he is devastated about that he has taken that very hard he wants to kill himself, that's what he talks about all the time. >> do you believe his story? >> yes. >> that he left alone in the cab and went back to the hotel. >> yes, never had a doubt. >> kelly desist or made her own way down to miami to help police in the investigation. >> i just plead with anybody out there that has any information to please come forward. >> she had last seen her sister with kevin that christmas at of family get together. they seemed happy together, no sign of the behavior that got both of them arrested for domestic violence before. if they're going at it like cats and dogs why are they staying together, kelly? >> i don't know, i really -- i asked myself that question now. but when they weren't drinking they got along great. >> kelly said paula was also taking prescription diet pills to stay in shape for her modeling and dancing careers. >> you know the combination of

that and -- they kind of got crazy. >> kelly shrugs off her sisters reported broken nose. >> from what i've been told that was an accident. >> and the text message from paula to an old boyfriend saying she feared for her life, that turned out to be less than advertised. it was moldy old and the source of it was the same boyfriend who was jailed for having sex with a minor when paula was just 14. kelley doesn't make apologies for her sister's lifestyle choices, the strip bars, the booze, the pills, but she remembers as well a paula who loved her barbies and caught the bouquet at kelly's wedding. now she was reduced to the 11:00 news. playboy model in burning dumpster. your kid sister treated like so much trash. >> yes, exactly. >> burned in a dumpster. >> yes, it was bad enough that she was murdered but to be burnt like that, that's not --

you can't even bring a body home. it was terrible, just terrible. >> when she lost to miami she decided to do some searching herself, she turned on her rental cars gps and punched in her sister's final points, club space and dumpster. >> i imagine you're hoping you will come across something, somebody that has seen something. a camera that took a picture. >> yes, seeing if there were cameras because there was a club next door and a club cross the street and i heard that there were outside cameras. >> club space had almost 30 security cameras, but none outside showing the sidewalk. most were aimed at the bar cash registers to keep the employees honest. but there was one camera that just might have captured something. there was a camera inside, high over the front door entrance, the private detective re-wound the tapes. then you have a holy cow moment, there she is! >> i was waiting for that to happen. it took us three hours as we were sitting there

waiting and watching and then we said, wow. it was her. >> seven seconds of grainy video, the last images of paula sladewski, that is her on the right side of the screen, the hair the dress the six inch heels, it's 7:21 in the morning, and kevin? rewinding the tape about five minutes the detective found him too. that is kevin on the right side begging bouncers to ask his girlfriend to leave with him. >> they said we will go talk to her, they leave me and said we talk to her, she wants to stay and you have to go. you have to get out of here. >> at 7:17 in the morning kevin 's seen exiting the club alone. >> it's a decision i'm going to regret the rest of my life. i mean, this is my nightmare. i wake up thinking if only i would have stayed an extra maybe ten, twenty minutes. if only, if only.

>> although police considered kevin a person of interest, there was persuasive evidence now that he left paula behind at the club. it seems to bolster his story in the recollection at the time -- >> yes, everybody we talked to down there say that he left by himself and there were no problems. >> the head of security, mike samuels, said he saw both kevin and paula leave alone, but he and others have added an important new observation something not seen by the blinking security camera up here. a detail that has changed the focus of the murder investigation. >> the club security chief said he did see paula walking away with someone once she was on the street, and that person wasn't kevin klym. >> a light skinned african american man, with a full groomed beard, well built. >> you didn't see an abduction you didn't see a rag of

chloroformj, like i am making it up. >> they walked off holding hands as if there were a couple and they were last seen by me and my staff walking away from the club towards the parking lot. >> paula was gone, but who was the man who accompanied her? >> coming up -- was paul's killer one of the man who had been hitting on her at the club? >> it wasn't some random guy off the street who walks up to her and she walks off with him. >> when dateline continues. don't tampic® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2,

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a grainy seven-second surveillance footage showing the model leaving the club alone, and an eyewitness about start the club who said he saw paul a walk away hand-in-hand with a man she met on the street. but paula's boyfriend, kevin klym, said sometimes exotic dancer was too savvy to go off with the stranger. >> she knew how to read guys and listen, she has been working in clubs in detroit for eight years. detroit is not a nice area and she had never had any problems. >> the boyfriend is convinced it had to be someone who had been hitting on her in the wee hours at club space. >> it wasn't some random guy off the street comes up to her and she walks off with him. >> kevin had told police that guys were swarming all over paula at the dance club and that was a reason he wanted to get her out of there. was her killer one of the guys hitting on her? but when kevin and his private investigator, dave wasser, went back to the surveillance camera

showing paula leaving they came up with another theory. they study the images and thought the two club employees following her out may be overly interested in the striking blond. kevin, break it down frame by frame the snippet of video, what do you see? >> i see you are walking out and the bouncers i her, i see three or four people follow and this guy is right behind her could be with her, i don't know. walks out of frame and then immediately after the two bouncers they immediately go out after her. that's what i see. >> police also studied the tape and talk to every club employee seen in it. lead homicide detective michael gaudio. >> you talk to the door guys security where they also persons of interest to? >> yes. >> did they talk themselves off of your list at this point?

>> it's such a massive involve investigation we have to wait till we get all the information before we eliminates them from suspicion. >> kevin getting all conspiracy theory even wondered if maybe there was a plot among club workers to make a play for the beauty left behind by her boyfriend. police say that is doubtful. >> we haven't uncovered anything that would lead to any type of conspiracy against her that night. it is viable but it is not the strongest lead we have. >> here is one of the club employees in that video, he is mike samuels who was the club's chief of security. he says look at the tape and you see exactly what really happened. employees doing their job, showing and ejected patron to the street. no one makes a move for it. >> this is the chamber before you go into the street, the security cameras up there when we see the video of paula leaving. >> correct after kevin had left -- >> you're in that picture? >> correct. i walk over, i have paula, and i walked her back out this way just like we're walking. >> that front door manager

directly behind paul escorting her to the door, the two bouncers at the left of the screen were not following psula, says they were following him their boss to the front door to make sure there were no further problems on the street. when armchair detectives say look she is a hot woman, security guys had their eye on her it is easy to get rid of the boyfriend for a minor violation and then we get the girl to ourselves. >> that is insane. that is completely ludicrous especially since we saw her leave with another gentleman. >> he says every other employee was accounted for that night and no one left with paula. >> our staff has a -- to clock in and out with fingerprints. nobody leaves staff wise until two or three in the morning before we close. it just makes no sense at all. >> samuels emphasizes that the bearded black man paula was seen walking away with had not been in the club that night, why not? because of the clubs strict

dress code. >> no matter how much when you have we don't allow you with shorts. >> two weeks after the murder club space employees could not believe their eyes. they thought they saw the very man paul up walked off in the morning in the street. he was back, brazen. could this be the man everyone was looking for? mr. walked away with her hand in hand? >> coming up -- a first look at the man who may have killed paula. >> it does look like someone that i saw that night at the club. >> when dateline continues.

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all right! >> all right! dennis murphy: a sunday morning just before 7:30 >> sunday morning just before 7:30 outside of miami club where the party nights only halfway through, taxis, patrons, paula sladewski objected and leaving after the watchful eye of the league security man. >> she got to the sidewalk and then i noticed her and the suspect, i guess they're looking for, walking across the street hand-in-hand. >> you saw them over there because there's a big parking lot. >> yes there's a big parking lot. >> paula and somebody heading towards the lot behind the strip club across the street and guess what? two weeks after the murder

bouncers at club's pace war certain they saw the same man again right outside the front door. this guy thought your door people saw that night the one approaching her, they believe they saw that same individual again a few weeks later. >> i believe two weeks later on saturday they saw an individual fitting that description walking in front of the club. >> luis owned club space. he said they call the miami cops who came and questioned him. >> they apprehended him talk to him, and from my understanding they let him go because it wasn't the guy. >> he's not on the list? >> the guy she left with my not have been the guy who did the crime. >> what happened during those 14 hours, the time between when paula was last seen outside the club to the hour when her body was found afire in a dumpster. a gap in time police all over miami were trying to fill. paula's boyfriend left miami within ten days of the murder under a shadow. back in michigan, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge in one of those domestic

violence cases and was given probation. charges against him in the other case were dropped. at the time, police in miami said they still considered him a person of interest but were turning their focus to the man paula was seen walking away from the club with. her sister kelly also left her home in detroit we turn to miami for weeks later she wanted to keep the case alive. >> talking about your parents, your family. >> it's hard. >> she gave tv interviews. >> is it gonna stick on the tree? >> posted flyers with a private investigator, dave wasser, and talked to anyone who might have seen something. a big sister nancy drew. >> thank you so much! >> good luck. >> we appreciate it, thanks a lot. >> kelly put up $15,000 of her own money for a reward. club space owners doubled that to $30, 000, a lubricant for reluctant tipsters. and then, almost one month to

the day after the murder, just when the case seemed to be stalled out came a dramatic development. police announced they had a composite sketch of the man that people had seen outside the club with paula. the club employees had only glimpsed the man from the back and side. now there was a new witness police wouldn't say who, who got a better look at the man from head on. this is the sketch of that man produced by a police artist. >> the person in the sketch is seen walking towards paula and she's standing in the corner they have a conversation and then they turn and walk off together. >> that is not to say that he hasn't been inside the club, right? >> we have no information saying he was in the club. he may have been but we don't know for sure. >> the sketch was released the same day kelly was putting up reward posters near the dumpster where her sister's body was found. this was the moment when kelly got her first look at the man who may have killed her sister.

>> i'm looking at a murderer. >> kevin klym thought he recognized the face in the sketch and dropped a bombshell. >> it looks like someone -- >> someone where? >> someone that i saw in the club. >> inside the club? >> it appears to me -- it looks very closely like a bouncer in the club. >> bouncer? >> one of the bouncers at the club, yes. >> kevin thought it was someone who had checked her i. d. when they enter the club. on another trip to miami he went back to club space on a sunday morning at the very hour when paul had disappeared weeks earlier. >> this place is a zoo. i mean, absolutely no way there aren't witnesses out there who saw her leave. >> hoping he wouldn't be recognized, kevin went undercover at the club. he was looking for the bouncer he thought matched the sketch. two hours later, he emerged to the daylight, disappointed. >> the entire security crew is gone, different security altogether. from the door guys, everybody

is different. they changed out the entire staff pretty much. especially the security group. >> baloney, responded the club owners. they say kevin's mistake in the club staff is the same and they have the payroll stubs to prove it. >> security guys are all new according to kevin? >> it's sad that he has taken this opportunity instead of trying to help, you know, to just throw leads out there that aren't helping anyone, he has to sit back and let the police do the work. >> police say none of the bouncers match the suspect in the sketch, meanwhile, kevin has also been cleared as a person of interest in paula's murder. now, many years later, it is an increasingly cold case in a hot city, but a case that remains open. the detectives continue to hope that polished look at me looks will trigger a memory from a witness somewhere that morning in january. the signature of her whole life of turning heads could be the signature of what -- who finds a killer? >> absolutely. >> because they couldn't take their eyes off of her? >> absolutely.

>> meanwhile, the miami party goes on. if clubs patrons don't seem to be worried about maybe a hunter in the midst, the police have done the worrying for them. >> we do have a deranged, sadistic killer out there that is preying on vulnerable women and we need to locate this person a soon as possible. >> back in michigan, her sister kelly and boyfriend kevin have waited so many years for a call that so far hasn't come. 2010 was a very short year for paula sladewski, murdered at the age of 26. >> that's all for this edition of dateline, i'm andrea canning, thank you for joining us.