blond and beautiful. >> she was a knockout. she was a stunner. >> a steamy playboy model wanna-be. >> looking for a golden girl. >> and when she arrived on the dance floor, party time. >> she actually kind of glowed in the dark. >> but this party ended a little early. >> you pull out photo copies of her earring, and i knew it was her. >> a brutal murder that left her boyfriend devastated and first on the list of people police wanted to interview. >> he hit her, she hit him. >> case closed? not after investigators find a secret recorded video. >> wow, it was her. >> was a model's date with death caught on tape? >> we do have a deranged

sadistic killer out there. >> death of a golden girl. >> good evening and welcome to "dateline." i'm lester holt. she was no stranger to a camera. as a model, this young woman's picture had been taken hundreds of times. but the image that interested police wasn't a glossy fashion photo. it was a few seconds of grainy video secretly recorded during the last hours of her life. here's dennis murphy. new years 2010 was arriving on a shivery night by miami standards. but temps in the low 60s weren't enough to chill the south beach seamstress. and there was a couple from michigan. paula sadusky and kevin clint. down from detroit for an impulse holiday weekend. >> how did the idea of let's go

to the beach brawl come together? >> paula. that was my baby. going down to south beach, that was it. >> down and back. hit the clubs, do some shopping for 2010. >> it was great. we had it all figured out. go to south beach. celebrate the new years. come in on monday. >> come monday, the live-in boyfriend and give pair were not on a trip back home. she was missing. paula, the aspiring leggy model with blond hair down to there had absolutely vanished. looking back, maybe if lady gaga

hadn't been booked on new year's eve, paula wouldn't have insisted on that trip to miami and gotten separated. but paula really wanted to see gaga's midnight show. and once down in miami, kevin scored tickets for $700 each. pricey, but whatever baby wants. >> this is the hottest ticket in town. she heard the celebrities are going to be there, and she didn't want anything to do with anything else. she had to go to lady gaga. >> the attendance at the show was documented by the guy who took iphone videos of them dancing. men tended to do that when they saw paula all clubbed out. 2010 at that moment, but not much longer, was starting off for paula sadusky in the sweet spot she loved so well. >> she liked celebrities and the v.i.p. style. >> she was a beautiful girl. she didn't take a bad picture. >> she had a lot of them.

pictures, head shots. glamour shots. she had come to know cameras very well. she was a model represented by a national agency. and she made the usual rounds. local commercials, pretty girl at the detroit car show kind of stint. nothing really big until heff said maybe. >> looking for a golden girl. >> paula tried out for a national playboy playmate search. think an "american idol" style cattle call with skimpier clothing. paula made it onto the 2003 video. playboy's 15th anniversary ultimate playmate search. she never got to be miss november. she didn't make the cut. still her sister kelly farris remembers paula being happy she tried it. >> there was 500 women. only 50 got to make it on the anniversary video. she was proud of that. >> it never broke for her. did it.

saturday, january 2nd, 2010 was still a vacation day for paula and her boyfriend. they splurged and moved hotels to a place on the beach. there on the art deco strip. they befriended a waiter and asked him what's up. >> i'm going to be at space. you should go to space. >> space to the locals. club space to out of towners. miami's hottest after hours clubs. only opened saturdays at 11:00 p.m. to sunday afternoon. so that night kevin says they had a romantic dinner on miami beach where paula had a neon blue dress. paula did her customary one-hour makeup thing and at 5:30 a.m., paula and kevin went to club space. lady gaga, now club space. paula in her six-inch heels,

sheer blue dress and waist down hair was a head turner even to this this bartender. >> she actually kind of glowed in the dark. she was so blond and really tan. she had beautiful i think blue eyes. her dress was like a neon blue or green. miami. girls like that are a dime a dozen, right? >> she stood out. tan, model. i would assume she was a model or something. >> paula and kevin had been dating and living together for a couple of years. he knew from painful experience what impact his girlfriend would have in a dance space with single men powered by alcohol. paula sladewski was boo boom chacalaca. >> >> she was a knockout. she was a stunner. >> paula danced, flashing her new mini as the men began

circling her. kevin new the drill. run interference on the men salivating for her as fast as he could. these guys were making heavy moves on his girlfriend. >> i turn around for a second, he's on her. he has his hand on her waist, crotch up against her. she's looking at me like laughing like whatever. it's like. okay. we got to go. >> but paula lit up by the attention and the shooter she was downing had a different idea. she was digging in her stilletos. >> i grab her around the waist and forearm. come on, baby. time to go. do the boyfriend shuffle with her kind of thing. she's like, wait a minute, i don't want to go. bam, bouncers are on me. they must have been watching. they were on me instantly. two guys. >> kevin was being ejected by the club from security. she was staying. she asked for the credit card and he gave it to her.

kevin said he wasn't going to reason with her in the haze. so seething, he got in a cab, still carrying her cell phone as he always did when they went clubbing and headed back over the causeway to the hotel room on nooim beach. as the sun came up that sunday morning, kevin crashed without his girlfriend. but as he paced about outside the club for only a few more minutes after he was tossed out, he would have seen paula 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. >> had you and paula had nights that ended like that before? >> yes. and she always came home. >> this time it would be different. when

three days into 2010 after a night of clubbing, kevin klym woke up in miz miami beach hotel room with a throbbing head and minus his girlfriend, paula sladewski. it came back to it. club space. the bouncer throwing him out at dawn. paula electing to stay. had you and paula had nights that ended like that before? >> yes. and she always came home. >> so it was not big deal at

this point? >> i'm not happy. it's not the way i want the night to end. >> kevin was starting to worry. he also nu paula could be a tough detroit cookie. >> she's a big girl. she knows how to handle herself. >> she knows what she's doing. she's not naive. >> those growing up pictures of pretty paula mask a difficult home life with an absent father and lots of step dads. 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 him. >> i was very angry and very upset. she's 14. she's still a kid. and my mother still let her date him. and at one point i had to call child protective services. >> calling the watchdogs on your mother, hmm? >> yes. >> the man was arrested and convicted of having sex with a minor and sentenced to two years in prison. he's now on a list of sex offenders. paula, meanwhile, waited until she was released from prison and started dating him again. by then she was of the age of

consent. old before her time, but still a dreamy little girl in some ways. >> the whole little girl fantasy of being the pinup girl or shampoo model. >> barbie doll. >> she had a lot of barbies. >> she had over 500 that she was collecting 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. but several strip clubs, gentlemen us clubs were. she danced at the club there and saved her tips to pay for college tuition until she dropped out. she seemed to like being the girl on the pole, the men lusting after her. >> i think that's why ultimately she became a dancer. she was seeking male attention. 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 this the point where she was like, this is it. take it or leave it. i'm like, well, i love you that much, i'm going to take it. >> the money from stripping was good enough to allow them to move to los angeles, just in time for the housing bubble to knock his budding real estate business into the ditch. paula kept on dancing and paid the bills. for a few months they moved back and forth between places in michigan and california. now she was gone, and he was a guy alone in a 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 together. we need to get this girl's picture out on the tv and out on the airways. [ sobbing ]

>> miami beach police told him he would have to file a missing persons report with the city of miami, a different jurisdiction. that's where club space was located. the cops wouldn't take his report until 24 hours had passed. he had now last seen paula about ten hours before. >> and i'm freaking out. we're from out of town. we're vacationing. it's not like her to be gone this long. >> what happens the rest of sunday night. >> hospitals and jails, i'm calling. >> space, hospitals, jails. >> kevin went back to club space to ask the homeless in the area if they had seen paula earlier that morning. after spreading some money around, he went to a gas station a few blocks away. >> i'm in the taxi. i get out. i go inside. i talk to the clerk. i show him a picture of my girlfriend. >> that's kevin on security camera. i said, have you seen this girl? he says no, i've only been here for an hour or two. >> returning to his hotel room and 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, why don't you tell me about it? i said, we have to meet at the city of miami police station. i can get you some help. and you got to say, what do i have here? what's going on? >> yeah n the back of my mind, i'm wondering is this guy straight up with me or not? >> after filing a missing persons, kevin returned to the hotel while wasser went to club space and talked to the manager and two of the bouncers who worked the door that early sunday morning. the people at the 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 is the front door manager. >> she got to the sidewalk. she went around to the right or the east. she's solo. >> 100% by herself.

>> while his private detective followed up wafer thin leads, kevin decided to call the medical examiner's 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. heart just sinks. . >> the detectives ask kevin, did paula have any body piercings. yes, he said. she did. >> he pulled out a baggy, a zip lock baggy, and there was two piercings, two posts, they're all like charcoaled, all burnt. blackened, you know, and he said, would these be the piercings, and i lean and i look close, i'm like no. >> detectives then checked out some photos of paula on kevin's iphone. they studied an earring. >> he pulled out a photo copy of her earring, and i knew it was her.

and that was the worst day of my life. >> the earring, paula's earring had been found at the scene of a burning dumpster, and inside the dumpster, they found the charred body of a person they thought was a female. >> it turned out to be gruesome beyond belief. >> yeah, i've relived that moment too many times. >> kevin was drif on the the police station in north miami near where paula's remains had been found, about ten miles north of the dance club. they had questions for him. intense ones. how was he going to explain what police were learning about a violent domestic history with his now murdered girlfriend? the woman found in a burning dumpster. and how was he going to explain that lover's quarrel at the club, the very night of the murder. >> they were having an argument. he grabbed her arm. that's when i called security. >>

9:00 sunday knight on new year's weekend, 2010, residents of a neighborhood in north miami began calling it in. a small dumpster behind a propane gas dealership was on fire. flames were shooting out. a body, it turned out, had been set on fire. >> could you tell male or female, even?

>> at that point, no. nothing else to go by other than a human being. >> it was detective michael's job to determine who the body was. and how he or she, couldn't tell at first, had been thrown away and torched. at the morgue they confirmed everyone's suspicions. it was a woman's charred body. a jane doe. >> we started contacting other agencies to see if they had anybody missing. checking missing persons reports. >> the north miami detective was with the medical examiner stoaf when the phone rang. it was kevin klym, asking if they had a found a young woman, his girlfriend, paula sladewski, now missing for three days. >> he described her there. it kind of fit a general description of what we had. >> dental records would later confirm it was indeed paula sladewski. >> why would killers dump a body? dispose of it the way they did? >> you're looking at a couple

aspects. either there's hate involved, anger, 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 unreadable charred. >> can you get a sense of this? >> we have somebody very comfortable in their surroundings, who felt like they had a lot to lose if this woman was found. >> pretty quickly the detective had a victim from michigan with a name and a boyfriend who had reported her missing. what's more, he was still in south florida. so what was his story, this kevin guy? on the one hand, he appeared to be appropriately distraught. he was the person who filed the missing persons report and seen putting up posters around town with her photo on it. on the other hand, he was the boyfriend, and that single fact alone made him a person of interest to the investigators. >> you're always going to talk to somebody who was the last person to see them. they have the most information about what was going on in final

moments of a person's life or what they were doing. in addition, you want to strip off his clothes, see if he has scratch marks on him. >> of course. >> standard procedure. >> standard procedure. >> take off the clothes, take some pictures. have a seat. we're going to talk to you for a while. >> a good while, in fact. and even though kevin klym showed no visible marks from a fight or struggle, detectives still had a lot of questions. >> they came to my hotel around noon. by the time the detective dropped me off back at my hotel, it was 12:30 at night. >> detectives quickly learn 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. unincluded paula's arrest in california for hitting kevin with a 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 paula in

michigan. the last time paula's nose had been broken. >> they had been together off and on, according to him it's like two years. there's a history of domestic violence. >> you have to wonder, right? >> you have to wonder. again, this goes back to he's the last person to see her that knows her. we have to wonder, what is he not telling us? >> police say the victim's boyfriend is still considered a person of interest. >> sladewski's boyfriend, a man with mug shots from a history of domestic violence. >> kevin's name and background quickly got into the reporting. the reporters found the court records of domestic violence complaints. that didn't look good nor the boyfriend. and neither did the story told by the lady gaga concert goer who had taken videos of kevin and paula. the cell phone photographer went on tv and said he remembered the man as someone acting too aggressively in the crowd. >> here's this guy who is really obnoxious and pushing through the crowd, many so than anyone

else i saw there. >> and then there was a new lead to the coverage. according to news reports, some time, it's not clear when, but before her miami weekend, paula had allegedly sent a text message to an ex-boyfriend saying "he's trying to kill me." he was that kevin. >> paula's mother patsy watkins up in michigan was telling anyone who would listen that she had no use for kevin klym. >> she was scared. she called her ex-boyfriend. she text him. i'm hideg from the beast. >> as she arranged for care from her murdered daughter's two dogs, she was preparing to tell them what she already told tv cameras. she claimed her daughter was terrified of kevin klym. >> just the threats that echoed in her head. to destroy her life. >> but bad mouthing family and maybe bad behavior at a lady gaga concert didn't make for a

homicide case. so detectives came to the club where she was last seen to get down exactly what the story was about the two of them had come to be ejected from club space by bouncers. the bartender talked about the start of the trouble between the pair. >> they were having an argument. they were only two or three feet in front of me. he zbrabed her by the arm and that's when i called security. >> the club managers explain the house policy of ejecting both parties when troubles flare. him and her. so in the early hours of the case there was a lot of swirling about kevin klym. >> at the end of the first interview with kevin, the boyfriend, is he on your suspect list of person of interest. >> yes, he is. he hasn't talked himself off the list. >> 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. >> we know you did it. why did you do it.

we don't think you're a bad guy. maybe you made a mistake. all this stuff. i'm like, i can't tell you i did something i didn't do. >> in the court of public opinion it was looking as though the boyfriend did it. but it turned out the 26-year-old dancer who so loved the lens had one final scene before the camera. a few seconds of grainy security cam footage. and what investigators saw there made them think that maybe the boyfriend was telling the truth. coming up -- paula's last date with a killer. >> they literally walked off holding hands as if they were a couple. >> when "death of a golden girl" continues.

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paula was dead. and the boyfriend kevin realized he was falling behind the curb on where the finger of suspicion pointed. >> do you volunteer the history that's going to be reported? >> everything. signed a release. no warrant necessary. waive my rights, let's do it. i need you to rule me out immediately so we can get onto finding who killed her. >> the north miami detective interviewed him for 12 hours before letting him leave. >> you're waiting to be arrested at that point? >> i didn't know. they didn't tell me anything. i hope we don't find out you do

it. >> very active. meanwhile, the detective hired after paula went missing is doing his homework. he videotaped interviews with people who hang around outside the club and handed out fliers. kevin was just a guy who 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 a long time. 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 farris, who unlike her mother, thought kevin was getting a bad wrap in the media. >> he shouldn't have left her. he has to live with that the rest of his life. he's devastated about that.

he's taken it really hard. he wants to kill himself. >> do you believe his story? >> yeah. >> that he left alone in the cab and came back in the hotel. >> kelly the sister paid her own way down to miami to help police in the investigation. >> i plead with anybody out there that has any information to please come forward. >> she last seen her sister with kevin that christmas at a family get together, and 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 ask myself that question now. but when they weren't griing, they got along great. >> kelly said she was also taking prescription diet pills to stay in shape for her modeling and dancing career. >> the combination of that, they got crazy. >> kelly shrugs off her sister's reported broken nose.

>> from what i've been told, it was an accident. >> and the text message to an old boyfriend saying she feared for her life. it was moldy old, and the shaky source of it is the same boyfriend jailed for having sex with a minor when paula was just 14. kelly didn't make apologies nor her sister's lifestyle choice. the strip bars, the booze, the pills. she remembers a paula that caught the bouquet at her wedding and loved barbies. >> your bretty sister, your kid sister treated like someone's trash. >> exactly. >> thrown in the dumpster. >> it's bad enough that she was murdered, but to be burned like that, and us not being able to bring a body home. it was terrible. it was just terrible. >> when she got to miami, she decided to do some searching herself. she turned on the the rental car's gps and punched in her

sister's final points. club space and the dumpster. >> i imagine you're hoping you're going to come across somebody who has seen something. >> yeah. right. >> notice a camera. yeah. see if there were cameras. because there was a club next door and there was a club right across the street. it appeared that there were outside cameras. >> club space, it turned out, 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 might have captured something. there was a camera inside, high over the front door entrance. the private detective rewound the tape deck. >> and then you have a holy cow moment. there she is. >> i was waiting for that to happen. it took us about three hours as we were sitting there waiting and watching. when we saw it, we go wow, it was her. seven seconds of grainy video. the last images of paula

sladewski. that's 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's kevin on the right side of the screen begging bouncers to ask his girlfriend to leave with him. go talk with her. leave me, come back, listen, we talked to her. she wants to stay and you got to go. you got to get out of here. >> at 7:17 in the morning, kevin is 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 10, 20 minutes. if only -- if only. >> although police still considered kevin a person of interest, there was persuasive evidence now that he left paula behind at the club. >> this seems to bolster his story and his recollection. >> yes. everybody we talked to, you know, down there said he did

leave by himself and there was no problems. >> the head of security at club space, mike samuel, says he saw both kevin and later paula leave alone. but he and others added an important new observation. something not seen by the blinking security camera up here. a detail that changes the focus of the murder investigation. the club security chief says 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 male with a groomed full beard. well built, average height. >> you didn't see an abduction. you don't see a rag of chloroform. >> they walked off holding hands as if they were a couple. 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 paula's killer one of the men who had been hitting on her at the club.

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aspiring model leaving the club alone. and an eyewitness, a bouncer at the club who said he saw paula walk hand many hand with a man on the street. but paula's boyfriend says she was too savvy to go off with a stranger. >> she knew how to read guys. listen, she's been working in clubs in detroit for eight years. detroit's not a nice area. and she 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. >> but it wasn't some random guy off the streets, walks up to her, and she walks off with him. >> kevin told police 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 went back to the seconds of surveillance cams showing paula leaving, they came

up with another theory. they studied the images and thought two club employees seen following her out are overly interested in the blond. >> break it down frame by frame, this snid bit of the video of her leaving. what do you see in it? >> i see her walking out. the bouncers eye her. i see three or four feel follow right behind her. this one guy kind of right behind her, could be with her, i don't know. she walks out of frame and immediately after, the two bouncers go out after her. that's what i see. >> police also study the tape and talk to every club employee seen in it. lead homicide detective michael gadeo. >> you talk to the door guy, security. were they also persons of interest to you? >> yes, yes. >> have they talked themselves off the list at this point? >> it's such an ongoing massive investigation with many people, we have to wait to get all of their information to eliminate them from any type of suspicion. >> kevin getting all conspiracy

theory wondered if there was a plot to make ha play nor the t hottie left behind by her boyfriend. police say it's doubtful. >> we haven't uncovered anything to lead to a conspiracy against her that night. i have to say, you know, it's viable, but it's not the strongest lead we have. >> here's one of the club employees in that vid yoef. he's mike s video. he's mike samuel, the chief of security. he says look at the tape and you see what really happened. employees doing their job, showing an ejected patron to the street. no one makes a move for her. >> this is the little bit of chamber before you go to the street, and the security is up here where we see video of paula leaving. >> after kevin had left. >> and you're in that picture. >> correct. >> i walk back over. i got paula, and i walked her wac out this way just like we're walking. >> that's front door manager samuel directly behind paula escorting her to the door. the two bouncers at the left of

the screen were not following paula, he says, they were following him, their boss, to the front door to make sure no further problems were on the street. >> when detectives say she's a hot women. security guards had their eye on her. it's easy to get rid of the boyfriend for a minor violation and we've got the girl to ourselves. >> that's insane. that's completely ludicrous. especially since the fact that we saw her leave with another gentleman. >> what's more, the security chief says every employee was accounted for that night and no one left with paula. >> the fact that our staff has to clock in and out with a hand reader with their fingerprints. nobody leaves until 2:00 in the afternoon when we close, it makes no sense at all. >> samuel 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 club's strict dress code. >> he was wearing shorts. our number one rule, we don't

allow you in in shorts. >> but two weeks after paula's murder, club space employees could not believe their eyes. they thought they saw the very man paula walked off with that morning out 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.

a sunday morning just before 7:30 outside a miami club where the party night is only half way through. taxis, patrons. paula sladewski ejected and leaving under the watchful eye of the head security man. >> she got to the sidewalk and i noticed her and the suspect that i guess they're looking for walking across the street hand in hand. >> and you go over there because there's a big parking lot. >> correct. 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 space are certain they've seen the same man again. right outside the front door.

>> this guy at your door that people saw that night, the one approaching, they believe they saw the same individual a few weeks again, is that correct? >> i believe two weeks later on saturday they saw an individual fitting that description, walking in front of the club. >> club space owner lewis says they called the miami cops who came and questioned the man. >> the police came. they apprehended him. they talked to him. from my understanding they let him go because he wasn't the guy. >> so he is not on the list. >> the guy that she left with might not have been the guy that 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 outside in the 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 the ghdomestic

assault charges and was put on probation. charges in the other case were dropped. police in miami say they still consider him a person of interest. but now they were focusing on the man paula was seen walking away from the club with. paula's sister kelly also left her home in detroit, but returned to miami four weeks later. she wanted to keep the case alive. >> talk to me about your parents, your family. >> it's hard. >> she gave tv interviews. posted fliers with the private investigator and talked to anyone who might have seen something. a big sister nancy drew. >> thank you so much. >> good luck. >> appreciate it. thanks a lot. >> she's very hurt. she's struggling. she's trying to keep this case alive by putting up a reward with her own money. >> kelly put up $15,000 of her own money for a reward. club space owners doubled that amount to $30,000.

a lubricant, hopefully, 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 that man the 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 won'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 as she's standing on the corner. they have a conversation, and then they turn and they walk off together. >> that's not to say that he hasn't been inside the club, right? >> we have no information to say 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 a first look at the man who may have killed her sister. >> i'm looking at a murder. >> kevin klym thought he recognized the face in the sketch and dropped a bombshell. >> it looks like someone -- >> from where? >> that i saw inside the club. >> inside the club. >> it appears to me, it looks very closely like a bouncer at the club. >> like a bouncer? >> it looks like once of the bouncers at the club, yes. >> kevin thought it was someone who had checked paula's i.d. when they entered the club. on another trip down to miami he went back to club space on a sunday morning at the very hour when paula had disappeared weeks earlier. >> this place is a zoo. there's absolute no way there's not witnesses out there that 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 scrcrew gone. the door guys to everybody is different in there. they changed out the entire staff, pretty much. especially the security crew. >> baloney says the club owner. >> security guys are all new according to kevin. >> yeah, it's really sad that he's taking this opportunity, you know, instead of trying to help, to throw leads out there not helping anybody. he has to sit back and let the police do their work. >> police say none of the bouncers matches the suspect in the sketch. now more than two years later, out is an increasingly cold case in a hot city. forensic experts have processed abandoned cars near the dumpster. if there was a hit there, the authorities haven't disclosed it. so mainly there is this sketch. the detectives hope that paula's

look at me looks will trigger a memory from a witness somewhere that morning in january. >> so that signature of her whole life of turning heads might be the signature of who finds the killers. >> absolutely. >> because you couldn't take your eyes off her. >> absolutely. >> meanwhile, the miami party goes on. business at the club hasn't dipped a bit. if club patrons don't seem be worried about -- in the midst, the police have done the worrying for them. >> we do have a deranged sadistic killer out there that's preying on vulnerable women and we need to locate this person as soon as possible. >> back in michigan, paula's sister kelly and boyfriend kevin have waited more than two 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.