regardless of what side of the aisle you're on, regardless of what country you're on, it concerns you, it affects your bottom line, it affects your family. >> it's very dangerous and we ignore it at our own peril. nobody has seen her. nobody has heard from her. >> chelsea was out to scare up some halloween fun. >> she had a poison ivy costume. a wig on. >> she looked beautiful in her >> but next morning, she was gone. >> the vehicle was gone. >> the majority of people this costumes, the worst-case scenario for the investigation. >> was somebody lying?

>> did you take that girl? >> did you have anything to do with her disappearing at all? >> no. >> a halloween mystery that will leave you chilled to the bone. >> what did you think when you saw that? >> the hair on the back of your neck stands up. >> reporter: in a quiet rural township in southeastern michigan, as october chilled into autumn -- two young women prepared for the social event of the season. >> it's gonna be great. it'll be so many people. >> reporter: or so they imagined, so they hoped, in their sunny naivety. they and so many others of a particular demographic, on the farms and in the small towns around monroe county.

>> it was, like, a build-up that whole summer that we couldn't wait to go to this halloween party. >> reporter: halloween! becky brinson and her friend chelsea bruck just loved dressing up for halloween. chelsea and becky worked together at a restaurant called olga's kitchen in monroe and, as they served their customers, they talked endlessly about what was coming. this wasn't going to be just any halloween party. it was big mike's annual halloween bash of 2014. >> everyone -- just everyone knew, big mike has the biggest halloween party. >> reporter: and after all, their friends were going -- and there'd be bands and noise and excitement and, who knew what all there'd be? >> we were definitely gonna be there. >> reporter: big mike had made quite a name for himself, with his heavy metal music and his epic parties, here at his mother's farm.

the girls had been to some of those parties before. and nothing bad ever happened. so, really why should they worry, as they dreamt up their costumes. their clever impersonations of evil. >> we were both gonna be batman villains. >> reporter: chelsea would be the essence of evil, batman's nemesis poison ivy. >> she looked beautiful in her costume. >> yeah, i'll bet -- >> i'll never forget. >> reporter: chelsea made it herself, spent weeks bent over a needle and thread. by hand, she sewed on each leaf of artificial ivy -- >> i didn't even know -- she could do that. >> reporter: and she found a wig, just the right thing. maroon with tips, red like blood, like the wine jug she carried. like the bright red of her poison lips. >> reporter: and she must have been very proud of it? >> she was. >> reporter: did they imagine even for a moment as they prepared. that true evil would find them here on this sleepy country road, not just the pretend kind. no, not as they tingled with excitement that saturday october

25th, 2014. and blended into the wild, bacchanalian scene inside two giant tents big mike had set up for the occasion. ♪ and the revelers poured in -- 600, 700 people, hundreds more maybe. who knew? a parade of eight heavy metal rock bands blasted their shock waves into the night. one of them big mike's very own band, pick axe preacher. that's him, singing the band had dressed up as ninja turtles for halloween. somewhere out there in that crowd were becky and chelsea and their friend penny watkins. >> me and chelsea kind of -- kind of attached at the hip. >> reporter: penny was a decade older than chelsea, had four growing kids. but, that night at the party? >> we were walking around and being goofy -- [ laughter ] kind of like two little schoolgirls, just laughing and giggling and drinking a little bit. i felt like 21 again when i was hanging out with her.

>> reporter: chelsea was 22, grew up in a tiny safe place called maybee. she was the youngest of five children, still lived at home with her parents. >> she was nice. she was friendly, um kind of wholesome. just this girl that, you know, came from the country and was ready to meet new people and do things and have some fun. happy, happy start her life, happy to adventure and explore and do new experiences. >> reporter: just after midnight, the last band stopped playing, and big mike lit up a huge bonfire, flames up to 15, 20 feet high. >> we actually walked over there together. that's when she bumped her nose. >> reporter: chelsea, that is. chelsea bumped her nose on a tent pole. had to hurt. >> reporter: was it bleeding or anything? >> it wasn't bleeding. there was a mark where she had hit it, and she was holding her face. we were kinda laughing at her. [ laughter ] 'cause j -- you know, she -- she's clumsy sometimes. >> it hurt, you know when you

hit your nose and it kinda stings? i kinda babied her a little bit. like, "oh, you're gonna be okay. it's gonna be okay." she wanted to go home right then. >> reporter: oh? >> "it's gonna be okay, it's gonna be okay. just drink a little bit. it'll go away." you know, and after a minute or two, she was fine. then she was back, enjoying the party. >> reporter: then, about 1:00am, it was time to go home. earlier, chelsea had asked penny for a ride home, but sometime during the bonfire they lost sight of each other. >> what do i do? do i get stuck here? go find chelsea? >> i assumed she knew all her people. someone would give her a ride home. i felt like she was there with

people in the community. people knew her so i didn't have a reason to be concerned that anything bad would help. >> so they left penny and becky who still have chelsea's phone. >> probably the biggest regret of my life. >> in hindsight it was probably the worst mistake i've ever made was not looking out for her better than i did. there was so much i could have done to help protect her, and i didn't. >> reporter: later, much later, someone would report seeing chelsea as the party wound down. in the dark. alone. seemed to be crying. and then -- nothing. chelsea bruck simply vanished into the cold night air. >> reporter: where was chelsea? certainly she'd turn up by the next day. when we return -- >> at the time i guess there was a hope that maybe something silly happened. >> where was chelsea? >> there was a moment something silly happened. >> reporter: but that "hope" faded fast. >> there were probably about 15 people all searching through the field. that's when it started getting more alarming. >> reporter: this is real.

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ensure max protein. >> reporter: the day after big mike's halloween party, 2014, was a sunday. recovery day -- >> i remember just telling my dad, how much fun it was and how happy i was to get outta the house and, you know, just all good things. >> reporter: penny watkins and becky brinson failed to understand. just yet, it was going to be second guessing day, too. becky, through the haze in her "morning-after head" called chelsea's mom, left a message that she had chelsea's cell phone. >> and whenever chelsea woke up that day, she could come get it. 'cause i'd be home all day. >> reporter: did you hear anything back? >> i didn't hear anything until

late that night. >> reporter: when chelsea's sister sent becky a message on facebook, saying chelsea hadn't come home. so becky responded. >> she's probably at a friend's house. she's probably, you know, maybe still sleeping. who knows? maybe got up, ate, and went back to bed, you know. who knows? >> reporter: who indeed. by monday, when chelsea had still not turned up at home or called or sent word. her worried family contacted whoever they could think of, friends, the police big mike. >> i was sitting at breakfast. >> reporter: this is big mike. the party guy -- his real name is mike williams. and this is his mother's farm where he's lived pretty much all his life. >> i got a couple facebook messages. "did you see chelsea? do you know where chelsea's at?" and i'm like, "i didn't even know who they were talking about at first." >> reporter: it was chelsea's sister who messaged big mike. the family was worried. very worried now -- >> people were like messaging me, "michael, look through your field.

you know, go look. take a walk." you know, i'm like, "all right." >> reporter: but look for what? a body? surely not -- anyway, look he did. >> i took my dog with me. we went walking. i went hiking through the field. probably hiked a couple miles and then my dog stumbled on a fox trap. >> reporter: so mike took his injured and bleeding dog back to his house. and there encountered chelsea's mom who, he said, gave him a chilly reception. he excused himself, took his dog to the vet. >> and then i came back here. and, you know, there were probably about 15 people here. they're all searching through the field. that's when it started getting more alarming. >> reporter: this is real. >> yeah. this is real. she's -- she's missing. >> reporter: chelsea's family was frantic, did not waste time. they set up camp here. >> yeah, they did. this was kind of like their base for a little bit. >> reporter: did they put up a tent or something? >> they put up a tent. i had a generator, port-a-potty. and i talked to my attorney and what we should-- how we should handle it. and he said just-- just leave them alone for now. and then eventually they'll go away. and we took that advice. and just kind of let them do their thing.

and-- >> reporter: did they say, "do you mind if we set up here?" or-- >> they actually-- i don't think they even asked. i think they just did. >> reporter: really? >> yeah. >> reporter: 'cause they sort of suspected you. >> yeah, they kind of suspected me. and i don't think they really-- maybe they were trying to put heat on me or something. >> reporter: maybe. >> yeah, i don't know. yeah, they kind of suspected me. and i don't think they really-- maybe they were trying to put heat on me or something. >> reporter: maybe. >> yeah, i don't know. >> reporter: well, that might be an understatement. meanwhile a few sheriff's deputies joined the family and searched the fields behind mike's house with their atv's and a search dog. and found nothing. but suspicion was in the air. that monday evening, at least as mike saw it, chelsea's mom, understandably very worried, took on an accusing tone. >> "is she in your basement? is she in your trailer? do you have her?" like i have her locked up somewhere you know, that kind of, like, threw me off. like, no, i'm out here helping. >> reporter: but here around the farm, people wondered. was he? anyway, that was about the time penny heard that chelsea never made it home after the party. >> kinda got a lump in my throat. like what? >> reporter: and she joined in the search that night. >> at the time, i guess there was a hope that maybe something silly happened, like she got her

leg caught in somewhere. that maybe she just somehow was on the property. >> reporter: got lost, was in the woods somewhere or something. >> yeah. i mean, this is monroe, stuff like that don't happen in monroe. >> reporter: it's safe, safe little place. >> yeah. >> reporter: the next thing becky heard was very early the next morning. tuesday -- >> i got a knock on my door from the police. >> reporter: and then, finally, becky understood. something awful may have happened to her friend chelsea. what did your mind go to? >> the worst possible scenarios. maybe she walked home. what if she got hit by a car? what if she's in a ditch somewhere, you know? what if somebody kidnapped her or trafficking? >> reporter: there were cases of human trafficking? >> yes. >> reporter: so people were being snatched, you know, women particularly. and then taken to be prostitutes somewhere against their will -- >> yeah. >> reporter: how did that feel? >> it was helpless. >> reporter: penny used facebook to get the word out about

chelsea and kept looking. >> i was out there almost every day. some nights i would put the kids to bed and go out searching all night. >> reporter: out on big mike's property, the family invited the media including our detroit affiliate wdiv to their command post. and chelsea's mother tried to stay focused through her fear and regret. >> had i known she was going to a party with over 600 people, 22 or not, she would not have been going. >> reporter: this was agony for a mother and for a sister. >> if she was able to come home, she would have by now. >> reporter: from mike's farm, the family sent volunteer search parties around the neighborhood and beyond. >> and they were still conducting searches throughout the fields. and they were knocking on farmers' doors. asking if they could look around their fields and things like that. detectives from the sheriff's office were very active, too, by then. but they'd already encountered a

serious problem. how to investigate six or eight hundred people, many in halloween disguise? >> reporter: coming up, an eyewitness. >> he saw chelsea. he described her as being tipsy. >> reporter: he also spotted someone walking away with her. >> he described this guy pretty good which ultimately led us to this composite sketch. >> upon releasing that, we-- we got flooded with phone calls. >> reporter: when dateline continues -- ♪ limu emu & doug

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>> reporter: each day that first week, little groups of people showed up at big mike's place out in rural monroe county, eager to follow a worried sister's direction. >> 5-mile radius outside the first circle, my house, 10-mile out. that's where we're looking, that's where she'd go. >> reporter: while in town, the sheriff's office confronted a baffling mystery. >> it's a halloween party, so you had the majority of people in costumes. >> reporter: it didn't take but a minute for detectives brian sroka, and mike preadmore to get the picture. this wasn't going to be easy. somehow, they had to figure out what happened to one young woman at a rowdy party of more than 600 people who'd been drinking. many of whom had disguised themselves for halloween.

>> so, you put all those together, it almost makes it a worst case scenario to start an investigation. >> reporter: there certainly wasn't a list of people they could contact. >> you're in the middle of nowhere and it's -- it's pitch black, you know, minus the fire and the -- a little bit of moonlight, and this party's going all throughout the early morning hours. people are coming and going. there's just no accountability, who's there, who's coming, who's leaving. >> so, somebody walking through the grounds of the party, if they weren't right beside the fire, it would be a little hard to tell who they were. i mean, it's like some ghostly presence coming out of the dark and -- >> yes. >> they're wearing makeup, and then they're gone. >> yes. >> it was chaos almost. >> reporter: still -- they needed to figure out what happened, and also they wanted to understand the young woman who was missing. >> chelsea, she almost became our sister during this. you talk to the family. >> i mean, we've searched her room. you know almost everything about her, it seems like. she's 22 years old. she's the youngest of five children, almost the baby of the

family. she was the only one still living at home with mom and dad, and they -- they kind of were lenient on -- on her, but she was -- >> there's something -- >> a grown adult. >> very special about that. >> yes. >> youngest daughter of the -- >> yes. >> when you've got a large family. >> yes. >> so -- her place in the family was sort of family sweetheart, that kind of thing? >> pretty much. >> and we started to establish this, you know, her personal history of she has nowhere to really go. she doesn't drive. she wouldn't just up and leave. >> reporter: which is just what chelsea's sister told our toledo affiliate wnwo. >> she even had told my mom that night, i'm not even staying that long. i'll be home in a couple hours. she was just going to go with her friends for a little bit, and come back. >> reporter: detectives talked to chelsea's friends, too, of course. >> and what did they tell you about her dating history? >> she wasn't currently seeing anybody, but there were a couple of guys she was interested in. so we obviously -- we looked

into these people. >> these were guys she had dated before? >> she had dated, or is interested in. >> how carefully did you look at these guys she had been interested in, or had dated? >> very in depth. >> did any of them go to the party? >> no. >> no. >> oh. >> so, we were trying to determine did they pick her up. did they have someone pick her up? what did they know about chelsea that night? >> we brought them in. we talked to them. we searched their homes. we searched their cell phones. you know, we -- at one point, we even collected some of their clothing, you know, to maybe possibly get some type of every, dna, fibers. >> reporter: but detectives were hearing from people who had been at the party. >> we actually have six different people that we made contact with who let chelsea borrow their phone for phone calls,and then she actually tried to call two friends. >> reporter: one of those friends was penny who was home by the time chelsea called. >> she asked if i could come get her. at the time i thought i was being responsible, and i told her, i'm sorry, i drunk too much, i really have no business driving. she didn't sound desperate for a ride. she didn't sound upset. >> she never tried to call her mom or anybody else.

she was seen crying a few times, you know, by the fire. she was -- saying, nobody's, she has no friends to give her a ride. she was cold. she was just upset. >> reporter: but then, a couple of days after the party, a woman called in, said her son may have seen something important. >> he saw chelsea, and he remembers clearly that it was chelsea because he talked to her about her poison ivy costume, and that -- how badly allergic he is to poison ivy. >> did he remember what time this was? >> it was approximately 3:30 in the morning. he described her as being tipsy. >> reporter: but -- here's the thing, and maybe it was some kind of break in the case, he said he saw a man hovering over chelsea. >> you know, he's kind of comforting her, standing with her, you know, talking to her. >> reporter: almost like they knew each other, said the witness.

>> he described him, you know as a little taller -- slender, hair swooping, wearing glasses, and then the two disappeared into the dark, he said. >> he described this guy pretty good to one of our -- a michigan state police sketch artist which ultimately led us to this composite sketch. >> and released it to the public? >> right away, as soon as we had it. >> upon releasing that, we -- we got flooded with phone calls. we didn't realize how common of a look that actually is. i mean, a lot of people actually look like the sketch. >> reporter: mike williams offered an opinion. >> it looks like 150 different people that i know. you know, i don't know. i could take you to a bar right now where everybody in the bar looks like that. >> reporter: but mike told the detectives that a couple members of a milwaukee band that worked the party looked a bit like the sketch. >> maybe talk to them. i don't know. >> breaking news tonight as president trump arrives in india

for his first trip since taking office. he's touched down right now and he is set to tour the world's largest cricket stadium there and speak to a crowd of over 100,000 people. right now we see the prime minister there. now with president trump and the first lady melania. they've just gotten off air force one and there is quite a group of people gathered here. there's a 12-member delegation traveling with president trump. we have had mick mull availably and robert o'brian i know what the secretary of comers and secretary of energy. we see ivanka trump saying he o hello. president trump modi invited president trump here to visit india after the prime minister had been in washington visiting president trump and had the howdy modi rally in houston,

texas. this past fall, where about 50,000 people were there greeting the prime minister in houston, texas. and the prime minister has set quite an event here for the first lady and president trump. they'll be visiting for about 36 hours in india which is a very quick trip for the president. however, during this time frame, they're going to go visit the stadium which is a brand new cricket stadium. it houses about 100,000 people. there are about hundred 100,000 people waiting for the president to come and have a meeting, a conference with modi. they'll both be speaking at that stadium in just a short bit. before they do that, they'll take a stop at the ghandhi ashram. it is an important stop for president trump. he feels quite an alliance with the people from india and one of the other places he will be stopping at during this trim is the taj mahal which is important

to him, seeing as though he had that hotel in atlantic city. the taj mahal. so president trump an affinity. and he and the prime minister have been speaking over the past months about trade agreements and other things are going to be happening with india. not a lot of that to be discussed here. this is more of a, a show for president trump to be welcomed by the indian people. especially by the prime minister who has been very, very happily had befriending president trump. there is a lot of negotiations going on here. they have some had steel and aluminum tariffs to discuss with india and also, what has been very interesting about this campaign with the prime minister inviting president trump over is so much of it has been done with social media. one of the biggest things is this is being called the namaste trump visit.

there's #namaste. there's supposed to be millions of people on the motorcade going with president trump and the first lady here to the ghandhi ashram and the stadium. people have been lined up for hours waiting to see president trump. some of them wearing white hats and excited about president trump coming. the other #they've been using is the modi trump card. another, the biggest road show ever. the prime minister has been very excited about having president trump come and visit. his howdy modi welcome as houston made such an impression that he wanted to have president trump come back and see how inviting india can be. as we can see here, they're being greeted at the airport

with dancers and it is a very, very colorful celebration as the prime minister welcomed president trump and the first lady to india. for his first visit as president. this is certainly been something on president trump's agenda. it is only 36 hours where they'll be spending in india and we'll certainly be following the updates and president trump's progress he'll be going through ashram and then stopping at the stadium where he'll be greeted by over 100,000 people. he'll be going to new delhi to the taj mahal and some bilateral meetings discussing tariffs and other issues very important to

the united states and india as they progress and go forward with their talks. we're watching the progression of the celebration at the airport as president trump gets ready for a very busy 36 hours in india. we're going to watch the motorcade go through these streets of india. heading now to the ashram. the ghandhi ashram, a late addition to the stop but obviously something president trump and the first lady wanted to stop by and see before they went to the stadium. as we mentioned, the president will be speaking at the cricket stadium which has not been opened yet. it houses about 100,000 people. and we'll have more ahead. right now, president trump is in india and we'll be following details. more to come. we'll be back to our regular programming.

>> could he describe her? >> he described her as chelsea. he -- he described -- >> wearing the poison ivy costume? >> as her poison ivy, the wig. he -- he described chelsea to a t. >> reporter: finally, a witness who could actually tell them something. >> i just told her to please sit still. i didn't want to leave her but i didn't want to stay there either because i didn't know whether or not if someone found her like that they'd blame me. >> reporter: harlin said he put the woman in a red four-door car, though he didn't know who it belonged to, and then he went back to the party to find anyone who knew her. >> i was looking for like 5 to 15 minutes. walked back to the car and it was gone. >> so you went back out to the parking lot and the vehicle that you put her in was gone? >> and her too. >> reporter: the detectives knew chelsea bumped her nose at the party. so when harlin mentioned blood, that got their attention. >> so from where you picked her up there was a little bit of blood on your right shoulder. >> not this shirt. i was wearing, it was a different shirt i was wearing but yeah. i'm not saying it was a big spot it was just a dab. i didn't realize it until i got home that night and looked at my shirt.

>> you still got the shirt? >> i should. i'm pretty sure it's being cleaned right now because my fiancé has a -- or girlfriend slash fiancée >> well, if there's blood on it we want it for her dna. >> if it was cleaned would you still be able to get something off it? >> no. >> reporter: unfortunate, if true. but there was something about young harlin, that didn't seem quite on the level. >> and when you got her up she had a bloody nose? >> well i didn't see her have a bloody nose, but i figured that she was bleeding somewhere because >> earlier you told me she had a bloody nose >> i didn't say i seen it >> when i >> i said it had to be because when she brushed my shoulder -- or her face on my shoulder that's what i figured. >> well when i asked how much blood you said just a few spots. and i said from her nose and you said just a few spots. >> i don't know for sure. >> i mean i'm having a little bit of problems with your story here harlin. >> i'm just telling you what this girl that i found. >> when a person tells a story like that, frequently it's cover

for having actually done something bad. >> correct. correct. >> you start thinking he says that he has her blood on his clothing, but i tried to save her. >> is he trying to make -- >> yes. >> an excuse if something did happen to chelsea, if we find her with some injuries? is he trying to account for that and cover that up? yeah. >> hey, are you in here for another reason? you know, did did something happen? >> that you're -- and you're -- >> to do with it? >> coming forward, but you don't want to come forward and just be direct? this is your way of telling us that you possibly had something to do with chelsea's disappearance? and he denied -- he denied, you know, doing -- reporter: they put some pressure on harlin. >> did you take that girl and do harm to her? >> no. no. >> did you take that girl and have sex with her? >> no. >> did you rape her? >> no. >> did you kill her? >> no. >> and it was through more

questioning and his story kind of got, you know, it wasn't makin' sense at all. and that's when, you know, ultimately we asked him, "did do you even know chelsea? did you have any contact with her?" he ultimately said, "no, i just wanted to look good." >> he made the whole thing up? >> he made the whole thing up. >> this is nothing but a big lie that i shouldn't have done, and i'm sorry. >> reporter: of course they had to waste more time checking harlin's stories, whether made up or not. and then they arrested him for lying to the police. >> what's it like to think you've got a lead like that and then it's gone? >> it's deflating. >> reporter: still. something about that young man. as they moved on, they kept him in mind. just in case. one tip that sounds too good to be true. >> he had a knife and he goes, "this is what i used with chelsea bruck." >> reporter: and another tip, that's all too real. >> she says, "oh, my god, brian, that's her shoe."

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>> reporter: chelsea bruck had been missing for more than a week. >> i love her, and i miss her, and i want her to come home. >> reporter: when her family and friends gathered for a prayer

vigil. >> she's coming home. it's not hope, it's a reality. >> it's something that i wish no one else ever has to go through. she's just, she's your baby sister, you're supposed to take care of her, and be there for her and you can't. >> reporter: chelsea's family moved their search operation from big mike's place to a more permanent base. >> they actually went to a vacant bank from monroe bank and trust, set up a headquarters. >> a lot of new faces today which is good because people are tired. >> reporter: and from here her family held for dear life to a fading hope. that chelsea was alive might still come home. >> absolutely miss you. love you. if someone is holding you no matter where you're at -- no matter, we just want you home. >> reporter: the family's organization was impressive. each volunteer assigned to a group, each group sent to a particular area or neighborhood. >> and this just went on and on. >> reporter: soon there were posters of chelsea's face and purple ribbons her favorite

color everywhere. >> reporter: friends like penny worried she might have been kidnapped by sex traffickers. so penny went looking in the darker corners of toledo, ohio, a half hour south of monroe. >> i was handin' out flyers. have you seen this girl? you know -- in the areas where prostitution is known. i had policemen tell me, "you don't need to be out here, you need to go back home," because i would go out at night because that's when the prostitutes were out -- >> that's kind of a dangerous thing to do, you know? >> i had to find her. i just -- you know, what do you do? i mean i couldn't live with myself just sitting at home and hoping that she turned up. >> reporter: chelsea was featured on dateline's own missing in america series. her mother tried to stay positive. >> cannot lose hope . cannot give up. the faith and prayers has given us that hope and if anything it's only gotten stronger. >> reporter: but penny and others couldn't quite keep that up. >> i know her sweet mom always had hope, and i know one time i

introduced myself and i said, "i was chelsea's friend." and she corrected me, "no, you are chelsea's friend. chelsea's out there." >> reporter: but christmas 2014 came and went no sign of chelsea. and then a week into the new year a break. maybe the break they'd been waiting for, a terrified woman in toledo reported that her ex-boyfriend confessed to her that he killed chelsea. >> ok kerri, i'm det. preadmore, this is det. smith. >> we brought her in right away. and -- another detective and i sat down with her and interviewed her. >> reporter: her name was kerri carr. >> when i went to go leave i walked out and was trying to get in my car. >> ok. >> and he pulled out a knife. ok. a pocket knife. and then he goes, "this is the one i used on chelsea." >> she provided information that this ex-boyfriend of hers told her that, you know, he was at

the party and that he left with chelsea, and that he ultimately ended up killing chelsea and dumping her body in the toledo area, in a cemetery. >> reporter: and kerri said he threatened to kill her, too. >> he like grabbed me by my shirt and he had a knife and he goes, "this is what i used with chelsea bruck." he didn't say her name exactly -- >> what did he say? i need to know exactly. >> he said, "i used it on chelsea, don't make me use it on you." >> you could tell that she was nervous, you know, real on edge. >> reporter: kerri said she lived in fear of her ex-boyfriend and she wanted him arrested right away. >> i want him locked up but i can't have him like questioned and then released. he lives on the same street as me. he's going to go after me and my kid. >> reporter: if kerri was telling the truth, this was very

big. >> did you actually confront this guy? >> we did. we interviewed him. and we -- we brought up the same information that was provided to us. without even mentioning her name. he says, "this girlfriend of mine, kerri carr, we've had problems for a long time. and i believe that she's doing this to get back at me 'cause she don't like me. she wants to see me in trouble." >> reporter: the detectives brought kerri in for another chat. >> after a lengthy discussion, she ultimately said, yes, what her ex-boyfriend told us, that she was trying to get back at him and try to get him in trouble, almost like i got you kinda thing. >> you know, it's frustrating work that you do. >> yeah, this was -- i mean, this took days. you know, it took us away from the -- what we're thinkin' we're investigating, trying to locate chelsea and find out what happened to her with this

information that someone comes in and brings to us. >> reporter: so they arrested kerri, too, for lying to the police and they went back to square one. while chelsea's family waited for something anything good. >> still very hopeful that she is somewhere alive and well. >> reporter: and the searchers slogged. >> it's pretty marshy back there. it's a lot of mud. so it's pretty tough to get through. a lot of downed timbers. so it's challenging. >> reporter: cops, deputies volunteer firefighters. >> any type of clues, um maybe some things she might have been wearing or disturbed ground or anything like that. >> reporter: and everybody waited for something from the detectives. >> a lot of pressure. >> oh, yeah, intense pressure. >> we did work on it every single day. all of our resources were still on this case. new leads coming in and you just kept chippin' away at it. >> reporter: and then it was a sunday in late march spring

cleaning time, and a woman called in she'd found something on the edge of her property. >> how far away from the party was this? >> that was 2.3 miles. so, that is a route that -- you know, many people leaving the party would have taken. >> reporter: her name was sheryl retzlaff. this is her. she told the detectives she'd been cleaning up a winter's worth of debris along the country road. just like every other spring. >> what-- what sorta stuff do you find out here? >> yeah. i find all manner of things. i mean, i have found cameras hanging from my trees with cd-- you know, the-- the disk cards in them. we've found car radios and speakers. and cases of booze and broken booze bottles. >> reporter: she followed her usual route along the tree line. >> where were you that particular day? that -- >> i start usually here. and make my way all the way around. and then end up back here. >> reporter: and that's where it

was. a shoe. >> what kinda shoe was it? >> it was leather, flat. >> okay. >> red. like a mary jane type of shoe. >> reporter: sheryl threw it in the trash bag. moved on. >> my husband comes home from work and as per the usual he's like, "so what'd you find this year?" i'm like, "well, i didn't really find anything but trash, other than this shoe." and he was i'm -- instantly on alert. a shoe. he's like, "you know, sheryl, really, maybe, do you think it could be hers?" and i knew who he meant right away. right away. and i'm like, "no. there's no way. all winter? they searched everywhere here. how could they have missed it? how could they have missed it?" >> yeah. >> reporter: sheryl called the monroe county sheriff's office and deputies came to pick up the shoe. and the next day det. sroka sent a photo of the shoe to chelsea's mom. >> i'm on the phone with her. i tell her, "i-- i just sent the email to you.

did-- did you get it?" she opens it up and she says, "oh, my god, brian, that's her shoe." at that point, your heart drops and you're like, this-- this may really be, you know, something we've been waitin' for. and she checks with other family members and they also confirmed that it was chelsea's shoe. >> now, that was a tip. >> yes. >> reporter: the shoe was tip number 623. >> but what does it tell you, really? >> yeah, it didn't look good. uh-- but again she's still missing. we have one shoe. you know, where's the other shoe at? where's chelsea at? where's her costume? where's everything else at? so-- >> and nothing else found in that area during -- >> nothing else. we searched within several miles on foot and in the air-- in fields, woods, and not a single sign of anything else. >> reporter: and then? then a certain young man ran out of money. fascinating, what a person will do when he has to. >> it looked kinda like a plant, like a fake plant. chelsea's costume. and a strange coincidence. >> what did you think when you

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>> reporter: it was five months after chelsea disappeared and the only trace of her was one red shoe on a roadside two miles from the halloween party.

but when chelsea's mom found out about that shoe? >> i could tell a change in her demeanor, 'cause she had been real upbeat during the whole investigation. you could just feel -- feel negativity. you just -- she knew at that point, i think, that -- >> reporter: like the air coming out, yeah. >> yeah. spring. people go outside. they see things. >> reporter: was this here before? was this here when you came that day, this berm, this earthen thing you're climbing up? >> yeah. it wasn't as big to my knowledge but it was definitely there. >> reporter: erik kassab and a friend were trying to make some quick cash finding and selling abandoned bits of metal. this was 10 miles from big mike's. >> that day, i was comin' here to -- find any scrap metal that i could take out. i was in a rock in a hard place and i needed -- money pretty quickly and -- >> reporter: what do we call that, "scrapping," or something? >> yeah. it was scrapping.

>> reporter: erik wasn't having much luck. and then inside this half-collapsed ruin, he turned over a piece of disintegrating plywood and -- >> i saw what i thought was like -- it looked kinda like a plant, like a fake plant, so i went and picked it up. i didn't realize what it was, because it was all bunched up. it had leafs on it, like fake leafs. >> reporter: sewn on? >> yeah. >> reporter: there was also a maroon wig. >> i did see -- the wig and -- kinda creeped me out, so i didn't wanna pick it up at all. >> reporter: so what'd you and your friend do at that point? >> i showed him. he told me it was a poison ivy costume. we actually contemplated keeping it 'cause it looked cool. >> reporter: yeah. >> and -- decided that it wasn't worth our time, threw it back down right where it was underneath the plywood and then -- continued to -- look for scrap metal. >> reporter: the two left with what little metal they could salvage and forgot all about it until -- >> about a week later, i was at work and i saw a poster for the missing girl wearing that costume. >> reporter: oh, and immediately you thought? >> "hey, that looks just like

what i found." >> reporter: so, should he report it? well, he probably should, he knew but, after all, he touched that costume. couldn't that make him look kind of suspicious? >> i've seen enough -- television shows to know what dna is. >> reporter: yep. >> and i was around the same age as the girl. there were just so many circumstances that could make me look like -- a suspect. i contemplated it. i didn't want to turn it in. i just wanted to leave it alone and pretend like it didn't exist, but i couldn't get it outta my head. >> reporter: erik joined his sister for easter brunch and told his sister about the costume and his dilemma. she knew right away what erik had to do.

had to. >> she was tellin' me that like i had to report it. and she basically gave me the ultimatum. she calls the police or i call the police. >> reporter: so he made the call. >> i was actually sitting down for easter dinner. and then the phone rings. and -- our sergeant called and he said, "i'm needing you to come in. we have -- chelsea's costume and wig." and i'm thinking, "are you sure?" "are you sure this is hers?" he texted -- texted me a photograph of it and -- you get that feeling in your heart and stomach and you're like, wow, this is -- this is what we've been lookin' for for a long time. >> reporter: the costume had been ripped at the straps and the crotch. important? maybe. they sent it to the state lab for tests. and officers picked through the discarded junk on foot, by air, all day, and into the evening. and, right away, that easter sunday, the detectives brought erik kassab to the station for a talk. >> it's -- suspicious that he just happens to find this costume. he waited a week to call us. so, there's a lot of things that are looking kind of suspicious. >> reporter: just as erik had feared. >> did you go to that party by chance? >> no.

>> tons of people went to this so we're trying to talk to everybody who went to the party -- >> no, i've never gone to a party. >> so you're saying you didn't go to the party on post road in newport at all? or -- >> no. however, at that time my baby's mother lived in newport. >> reporter: in fact, his ex-girlfriend lived on war road, the same road where chelsea's shoe was found. >> you said you don't know chelsea. >> i don't know her. >> okay. i gotta ask you -- >> yeah, i know -- >> did you have anything to do with her disappearing -- >> no. >> --at all? >> no. >> reporter: erik swore he was at home with his daughter that weekend and had nothing to do with chelsea's disappearance. he agreed to give his dna and fingerprints. >> all right. open your mouth i'm going to swab the inside here. >> reporter: but there was something else about the discovery of the poison ivy costume. and it had to do with harlin bird. remember him? the guy who'd tried to sound like a hero, who told detectives he helped chelsea at the party, then admitted his story was a lie? >> this abandoned building, where the costume and wig were found, was literally 100 yards, 200 yards tops from harlin

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at headquarters in new york, we're bringing you breaking news with president trump, he is now visiting the ghandhi ashram. it is one of the homes of mahatma ghandhi established in the early 1900s. there you see the prime minister modi giving president trump and the first lady a tour of the ashram. it is about a four-mile drive from the airport. the trumps arrived just about an

hour ago and they were greeted at the airport with dancers and quite a formal ceremony. now they've stopped at the ashram. what they'll do next is head over to a stadium. a stadium with about 100,000 people there waiting for president trump. and the prime minister to speak. it will be quite a different setting from that quiet setting, from the ashram. we're going to bill neely who is at the stadium and bill, i understand it is quite a seasonable there. can you tell us what's going on? >> reporter: president trump looks good. he is the star of the show. this is his stronghold.

it is really president trump -- my goodness, the capacity of the stadium. it's 110,000. most of the people you see arrive here are wearing white caps and white t-shirts. they are hand picked modi supporters. this stadium is packed with people who will give president trump a tremendous welcome. he has visited the home of mahatma ghandhi. the man who helped lead india to independence. president trump has been alongside reverend modi the whole time. the two men have met eight times. it was that extraordinary rally

in houston, texas last year. it was called the howdy modi rally. i think this is -- i don't expect anything big in terms of agreements -- >> bill, we're showing now the president and the first lady with the prime minister at the ashram. it is quite a different seasonable from where you are at the moment. they stopped at the ashram. they are wearing some ceremonial scarves there. and they've been spinning a wheel. i don't know much about that wheel but it seems to be a peaceful weaving wheel. right now they're taking a photo opportunity here at the ashram. and as you had mentioned, it is the former home of mahatma gaunldy who was the independence leader for india. has the very significant trip for president trump. you mentioned the howdy modi

back in houston in september. not many months have been between when these two leaders have been together. this definitely, one of the largest welcoming ceremonies, i think, that president trump will ever have, if ever, with 110,000 people at that stadium so. tell us more about the crowd that is gather there'd, if you would. ♪ >> the capacity here is 1 ty,000. it seems to be absolutely full. and full of modi supporters. remember the president said, mr. modi said to him, five or seven or even 10 million people would be here to greet him mr. trump seems to be somewhat fixated by these numbers.

we don't know the number greeted him as he went to the home but officials said it would probably be more like 110,000 or so. as you can hear, it is an absolutely deafening show. president trump was meant only the here. i was saying earlier, don't expect any big trade disease or any big agreements from this trip. this is very much about an agreement and cementing the relationship between president trump and modi that was men to be a trade deal. they've been discussing the possibility of a trade deal for the best part of a year but still haven't managed to come up with one. president trump said don't expect one until after november's election.

this is about a strategic partnership and it is about a personal relationship between the president and mr. modi. they're very similar they both rose to power on a nationalist, populist ways and they are known for divisive politics mr. modi in particular criticized for what are seen as anti-muslim moves in this country. and of course, president trump banned people from muslim countries right at the beginning of his presidency. so they are similar and president trump to cement that relationship. he joked about this crowd. he said once he experienced this crowd, he said i'll never be satisfied again. he's had about 100 rallies since

president. most average about 20,000. this one, five times that. so amid the deafening noise, we're expecting it in about a half-hour. >> live from us from the new cricket stadium will in india. this will be an inaugural moment for the stadium. it hand been opened yet. when the prime minister and president trump do arrive, they'll be speaking and it will be the inaugural event at that stadium. we'll be joining bill neely later when the president does arrive at the stadium. right now we're seeing pictures of president trump i know what the prime minister modi at the he ashram of mahatma ghandhi at the river about, four miles from the airport. it was an added stop and one very particular for president trump. he wanted to see one of the homes where ghandhi had lived.

a very important person, mahatma ghandhi and he led the country to their independence. on the river. it is just outside of the stadium a few mize from the stadium where they'll be joining the crowd of 100,000 plus people. the biggest crowd the president will be speaking in front of. we saw all the lines of people along the motorcade as they were driving in. we saw dancers and bands playing and people waving. that was just the four miles from the airport to this ashram there. we are going right now back to

bill neely who is dealing with the crowds at the stadium. we know the president has crammed a lot into this 36-hour visit. >> reporter: he has flown 8,000 mize in the last 36 hours. he's going to three cities. this is ahmedabad. and from here he will go to agra. that is where, one of the jewels of india is the taj mahal. the 17th century palace of love. and he will go there with melania trump. they will spend under an hour there but he will be there at sunset. jack cle

. >>er president visited the taj mahal with his daughter chelsea and way back, eisenhower visited it. so president trump will be the third president to visit the taj mahal. and then after that, it is really down to business. he will go to india's capital, new delhi, and he will meet with political and business leaders. don't expect any big break throughs. it is a long way to come but it will begin at this spectacle at the biggest cricket stadium. >> and when president trump does arrive, his motorcade is leaving the gandhi ashrap.

we will return to our program in progress. a man. a mystery man. because -- >> we entered it into our codis system, and there was no hit. >> reporter: it's a database of dna. >> correct. >> the crime lab assured us that it was-- it was a pretty good sample, the unknown male dna. and they said, "it's just a matter of time. and sooner or later, we think we'll-- we'll get-- a match on it." >> reporter: they checked, of course, the dna of erik kassab, who found the costume, and harlin bird. and both men were cleared. >> when we got that information from the dna. it was almost like our investigation kinda shifted gears. we were in the recovered dna mode. we were trying to collect dna from anybody and everybody we could. >> reporter: did you go back to the people at the party? >> we did. we did. >> we did. the people we talked to on the first day of the investigation. we now were going back and

askin' for their dna because, before, we didn't know there was gonna be dna. we didn't-- we didn't even know it was a homicide at that point. so, we're goin' back, makin' a list of people's dna we wanna get. >> reporter: like, for example, big mike. >> big mike. that's the dna that we wanted. >> reporter: and? >> he wouldn't give it to us. >> reporter: what was it with big mike? was he cooperating or what? >> they asked for my dna. and i talked to my attorney. he said you to if you don't want to. and i just felt like i didn't want my dna in some database. you know, i'm not-- i'm not a criminal. i'm not a felon. also i felt like they were almost pointing, pointing the finger at me again. i was over it. and i was trying to move on with my life. >> reporter: and so mike williams stayed on the 'persons of interest' list. about a month later, the medical examiner's office told the detectives they now knew what killed chelsea. >> they ruled the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the face. we had initially noticed, that

there was a-- a break in the jaw. and they just kinda confirmed that there were severe facial injuries, which they-- they believed was the cause of death. >> reporter: several facial bones were fractured, especially around her eyes. the detectives decided to keep all that secret. and chelsea's parents held a private funeral for their sweet youngest child, the baby of the family. hearts are breaking in this small town today. and then in early september, about 10 months after chelsea disappeared, the man who'd found her remains called the sheriff's office. >> he's doing some more excavating on his property there, moving dirt around, workin' on the property. and he notices a red shoe. and we have several detectives that go out to the scene and it happens to be the left shoe. it's the same size, same brand, same style as-- the one that had been found on war road. obviously it's chelsea's other shoe. >> reporter: yeah. >> the detectives began to look around a little bit more. and they happen to find the green tights of chelsea's. so, at that point, we have everything accounted for.

we have chelsea's shoes, her tights, her costume, her wig and her body. >> reporter: everything, that is but her killer. coming up -- a months old tip sends the investigation in a promising direction. a boom, boom, boom? >> yeah. things were adding up. >> or that's what investigators thought. until -- >> she put her foot down. she said you're going to want to see this right now. so we stopped and she handed me the sheet. >> peace and love. that's my motto. >> reporter: a "peace-loving" suspect confesses but not to murder. >> i just like smoking weed and having sex. >> reporter: what "dateline" continues. back to the mirror. you've got this, john. .and on demand. it's boxing, cardio, yoga, and more.

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the nevada caucus coming up short of bernie sanders. buttigieg did not meet the threshhold to earn delegates. a federal judge has denied roger stone's request that she recuse herself in the trial. she extensioned him to three years in prison, claiming the request had no factual basis. now back to "dateline." big mike didn't throw a party in 2015. it didn't seem right, one year after whatever happened to chelsea. >> i wasn't going to do it. i -- i felt like i was just gonna be done with it. and then i kind of had some people kind of contact me -- >> reporter: oh, no, you gotta have one, mike. >> yeah. you gotta keep doing it. you gotta do something, gotta do something. i'm like, "you know what? i'll do it." >> reporter: mike took his party to a club in detroit. the investigation, however, was stalled. and so it was out of

desperation, really, that in june 2016 they gave the media photos of this guy, captured from video shot at the party. >> reporter: what was that all about? >> so, we had received a tip r -- very early on in the investigation about a white male with a mustache that had showed up around 3:00 in the morning at a residence on war road. this is about a quarter of a mile or so, not even, from where chelsea's shoe was found. this guy shows up at three in the morning, pounding on this guy's door. says he's comin' from the party, he's lookin' for a place to stay. you know, the -- the -- the gentleman says, "you know, you can't stay here. you have -- you have to get going. >> reporter: the party-goer took a snooze on the man's front porch, but he then left. and the homeowner found the guy's vest the next morning and called the tip line. >> the vest had a -- a pocketknife and some rope inside of it. so, this guy shows back up, wants his vest back. he gets his vest and he leaves. >> reporter: weird. back at the time, it didn't seem like much of a lead. but who knew? so they combed through the party

video. >> and we actually could see several frames where this guy is actually dancin' around wearing a black leather vest. so, we're thinkin' maybe this is the same guy that was at the house on war road, knockin' on the door. >> reporter: but when those pictures went out on local media? >> reporter: did you find him? >> he actually came forward. >> reporter: what did he have to say? >> he came in and, you know, another key factor in the identification was he -- he resembled the sketch. he was -- >> reporter: ahh, the original sketch. >> looked pretty close. yes. yeah. so-- >> reporter: that's a boom, boom, boom, boom. >> yeah. i mean, things were adding up.

and he's in the area where her shoe is found, late, you know, a knife in his pocket, rope. >> reporter: the young man said he was very drunk at the party and didn't remember much. they took his dna and scheduled a polygraph. but, on the very day that was supposed to happen the sheriff's evidence tech received an email. >> she says, "hey, you guys, i -- i have something here you're going to want to see. and we were pretty much focused on what we were doing at that time. and we kinda, you know, said, "hey, just hold off. you know, wait a minute. let us finish doing what we're doin'." and she put her foot down and she said, "you're gonna wanna see this right now." so, we stopped and she handed me the -- the lab sheet, and it was a confirmation of dna. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: had you ever heard of daniel clay before? >> never. never heard -- >> reporter: and he'd never -- >> his name. >> reporter: come up at all? >> not in this case. >> reporter: who is daniel clay? lives in monroe county and doesn't 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 kinda does his own thing. >> reporter: someone that's not doing very well in life? >> unemployed. >> reporter: 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 person, where he stole a -- a backpack with some tattoo equipment off of somebody. >> reporter: a petty crime, essentially. >> but it's a felony. >> reporter: and unfortunately for daniel clay, the law in michigan had recently changed. under the old law, only dna from convicted felons was entered into the national data-base: codis. the new law included the dna of anyone arrested for a felony. >> so, upon his arrest, with the -- with the new law in michigan, they -- they took a dna sample from him and sent it to the crime laboratory to get entered in the codis. >> reporter: so where was this guy? >> well, that was one of our big things, was locating him.

>> reporter: yeah. >> he was homeless and was just bouncing around from home, trailer to trailer. >> reporter: and imagine this. there were two warrants out for him for unpaid child support. so when they found out where he was, they set up surveillance and made a plan to arrest him on those outstanding warrants without telling him he was a murder suspect. that is, if they could catch him. >> on at least one occasion, we see a male subject come out of the front door onto the front porch and smoke a cigarette. and we confirmed that that was daniel clay. the deputies go up, they knock on the door. i mean, they're pounding on this -- this mobile home for quite a while. >> reporter: oh, boy. okay. >> so, it doesn't look like he's gonna come out. they keep knocking. suddenly, the back door flies open and out comes daniel clay. and he takes off. fortunately, we had several officers at the back door who were able to take him into custody immediately. they take him to jail, book him

in just like a he's being arrested just for his child support. >> can you let me call my girlfriend and tell her i'm going to jail for child support? >> okay. >> reporter: so when they put him in an interview room, daniel clay did not know he was a murder 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. >> reporter: 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 watched stuff on the news and that about this girl that went missing. but denied ever knowing her. >> reporter: 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, another on the way. a nice simple life, said daniel clay. >> i live like it should be like the seventies, free love, peace and love. that's my motto. like i don't like fighting, i don't like violence, i don't --

i just like smoking weed and having sex. >> reporter: well, really. sex and pot? oh, he probably liked those things a lot didn't he? but peace? non-violence? hmmm. time to figure out mr. clay. and this was when detective preadmore went to work. >> you told me you never had sex with chelsea bruck. >> never had sex, never nothing with her. >> would there be any reason that your dna would be with chelsea bruck? >> no. >> or on her clothes or in her hair? >> not to my knowledge. >> reporter: a good interrogation is like peeling an onion to get to the truth at the core. >> reporter: coming up -- daniel clay's story starts to change. when i ask you about chelsea bruck and having sex, there's a possibility? >> there is a possibility. >> reporter: when dateline continues. que print

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>> reporter: july 2016, 21 months and 1037 tips after the untimely death of chelsea bruck. detective mike preadmore confronted daniel clay, the 'ladies man' whose dna was on her halloween costume. >> reporter: you never had sex with chelsea at the party? >> no. >> before the party, after the party? >> nothing. i didn't even know her. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: he was adamant. 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. i was out in the car and i [ bleep ] somebody. and then not long later, i talked to my baby mama, got in the car and left. >> okay. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: 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 was recovered on her costume, his dna. so, daniel clay now has to rewind and see how he's gonna cover up, with lies, the lies that he's already told me. >> reporter: and then det. preadmore told daniel a lie. >> and i'm going to tell you one thing that nobody knows 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. >> reporter: 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. and then, he said, they had sex in his car again, and this time things got "freaky." >> she told me to choke her. i choked her. then we switched because she got underneath me. like i don't know. we were [ bleep ] for a minute, and then she kind of stopped and she went limp. so i stopped. i'm like, you know, i started tapping her face. >> okay. >> i guess i choked her too hard or something like that. >> okay. >> i wasn't even choking her that hard. i didn't think -- i got girlfriends that like to be choked and stuff. i know how to do it. like i didn't realize her bones were brittle or whatever. >> so, he says, "i attempted cpr. i kind of hit on her chest a little bit." and after that, he just freaks out. he says that he drug her -- put her in the back of the car and was freaking out, didn't know what to do. didn't think of going to the hospital or anything like that. and he found himself driving. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: they arrested him then -- for murder. but before 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 like, 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. >> reporter: but daniel clay had only confessed to an accidental killing, not murder, so he pleaded not guilty. after all. no eye-witnesses -- no hard proof he meant to kill chelsea. the ladies' man was going to trial. >> reporter: coming up -- the prosecution says it was murder. >> he obviously used massive force against her and ultimately killed her.

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>> reporter: daniel clay went on trial for murder in may 2017. and as chelsea's family and friends gathered here at the monroe county courthouse, the prosecutors prepared to deal with a tricky problem. daniel clay had confessed to an accidental killing. leah hubbard and michael roehrig needed to prove it was really murder. >> of course, there's only one person alive who knows what really happened that night, and that's daniel clay. and he's certainly no friend to the truth. >> reporter: although lead prosecutor roehrig admitted some of daniel's story was plausible. >> i think that the fact that she was alone at the party without a phone, without a ride

home it was cold, and she was dressed only in that costume, i think does play a role here. because i think it makes it somewhat more likely that she might have accepted a ride from the defendant whom she would probably have been acquainted. >> reporter: 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 wanna provide to him. and he obviously used massive force against her to get what he wanted and ultimately killed her in the process. >> reporter: 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. >> there was nothing left for me to evaluate whether or not chelsea had been asphyxiated. >> reporter: nothing to evaluate because of the severe decomposition of her body. but, could choking have killed her so quickly? >> it is not a 10 or 20 or even

30 second process. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: prosecutors called a state crime lab fabric expert. >> my opinion is the leotard was torn or cut and torn with a

blunt object. >> reporter: and prosecutor hubbard argued chelsea would never have ripped her costume for any reason. >> chelsea spent months making this costume. she was so proud of it. we never believed that she would have done that. >> reporter: and, look inside the leotard, said the prosecutors to the jury. >> the jury had an opportunity to see the blood stains on the costume. and they were significant. the costume was turned inside out and shown to the jury. and it was very clear that she sustained a trauma that caused a significant amount of blood loss. >> she was therefore obviously wearing the costume when she was beaten and bloodied. the defendant, by his own account, indicated that chelsea was naked during what he claims was a consensual sexual encounter. but clearly what happened was she was beaten and bloodied first, and then that costume was forcibly removed from her. >> reporter: 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, uh-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. >> reporter: 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 kind of neck compression, strangulation. >> reporter: though the expert conceded there was no physical proof of that. but, he disagreed with the state's conclusion that chelsea

was beaten to death. >> the facial bones by themselves would be an unusual cause of death. there's a variety of things that could have occurred after death that potentially could have resulted in these type of fractures. >> reporter: then the defense called his only other witness, daniel clay himself. the one person who knew what really happened that night. and daniel swore his story about the accidental choking death was god's truth. and, when she died, he said, he panicked. >> i was extremely emotional. i never dealt with anything like that before. and never been in serious trouble in my life. >> reporter: as for the broken bones in chelsea's face, he wasn't sure how that happened, he said. but he had some possible explanations. maybe he accidentally hit her head with the car door. or maybe he dropped her on the way into the woods. >> so how many times did you drop her if you recall? >> probably five or six. >> reporter: or, he said, maybe, one of those logs damaged her face.

>> i remember tipping a bigger one on her and a couple smaller ones. i just grabbed the one end of the log and proceeded to tip it up on top of her. >> reporter: it was all an accident, said daniel, and he felt just terrible. >> every day i think about this and i regret what happened. it's something i have to live with. it's something that her family has to live with. i never wanted to put someone through something like this. >> did you intend to cause her death? >> no, i did not. >> did you murder chelsea bruck? >> no. >> why do you say that? why do you say no? >> because i didn't mean for her to die. i didn't mean for this to end like this and this was not my intent. it was to have a good time. >> reporter: the prosecutor did his best to break daniel's story. said, of course, daniel didn't seek help, because people would have seen immediately that chelsea had been brutally beaten to death.

>> and they would have seen her smashed in face, wouldn't they? >> no. >> and they would have seen her torn and bloodied costume, wouldn't they? >> no. there was -- >> no? >> i mean probably if they would have looked, yes. >> if they would have looked they would have seen it? >> yes. >> reporter: but daniel said he was drunk and high that night and thought maybe it was all a bad dream. but then he said, he saw on facebook that chelsea was missing. >> and that must have confirmed it in your mind that yes in fact you did kill her. >> it started making things seem like they happened. >> i see. and that's when you contacted the police? >> no. >> in fact, you never reported ms. bruck missing or murdered, did you? >> no, i did not. >> you never reported where her body was? >> i didn't remember where her body was. >> you never reported killing her did you? >> no. i did not. >> all right. >> reporter: daniel clay did not

raise his voice he even came off as kind of sincere. >> i've never hit a woman. i've never done anything like this in my life. it's not something i chose to do. >> reporter: but, this was no accident, prosecutor roehrig insisted, and he implored the jury, just look at the evidence. >> the defendant murdered chelsea bruck. and then he discarded her lifeless naked body in those woods in an attempt to hide the evidence of his wrongdoing and escape any measure of justice for what he had just done. >> reporter: not enough, argued defense attorney smith. oh, they should find daniel guilty, he said. but of manslaughter. not murder. for daniel clay had no reason to kill chelsea and no motive to do so. >> he caused her death. it's not a secret. is it a murder? what was his intent? was his intent to kill her? did he premeditate the intent to kill her? that's the reasonable doubt, folks. >> reporter: what was the jury

to do? >> reporter: coming up -- the verdict. you just heard gasps in the courtroom. and regrets. i know i didn't do anything wrong. but it's something i'm not gonna forget. >> reporter: when dateline continues.

in new york, we have breaking news out of india where president trump is visiting india for the first time since taking office. he's down in ahmedabad right now. this is largest cricket stadium where he is set to join prime minister modi and the two will inaugurate the stadium. there are approximately 110,000 people at this stadium waiting to hear president trump speak with the prime minister modi there today. they've been playing music there. our own bill neely has been there. what can you tell us about this upcoming event? >> reporter: good morning. president trump loves a crowd

and he loves a show and he has both here. and to a very great degree, he is the star of the show. we hear, of course, with prime minister modi here in mr. modi's strong hold. there is been an extraordinary deafening music festival for about the last hour. the stadium is packed. 100,000 people. 110,000 is its capacity and as i long around, it is pretty much full with people wearing the white hats of mr. modi. they are his supporters. the people inside this stadium hand picked supporters. behind me, you can probably see there is the stage where they will speak. and there is bullet prof glass there. it is double protection.

the world's biggest cricket stadium and i think this will be the world's biggest crowd president trump has ever addressed. normally his rallies, and he's had more than 100 of them. they are roughly 20,000. there was an even bigger one mr. modi and the houston texans last 84 called the howdy modi rally. bfs 50,000. think of this. probably the biggest rally president trump will see certainly before november's election. and i think mr. modi and india are doing this quite deliberately. they know president trump loves numbers, loves a crowd and they have put on the biggest one possible. this stadium didn't have to be inaugurated now. it didn't have to be inaugurated by president trump. it is pretty much finished but not completely finished.

so they have rushed forward with this visit. so they are behind the stage could only out here. they will make remarks. they've already visited together the home which is now a museum of mahatma gandhi. the man who basically led india toward independence. mr. trump was given a scarf of honor and of welcome and one, too, for the first lady, melania trump, who will also be here at this stadium. some of the white house press team have just arrived. some of the officials are coming out now. we do expect them to come out here in the next five or ten minutes. we don't expect any big announcements here. no big trade deals.

for the last year, the united states and india have been trying negotiate a new trade deal. india, one of the most protectionist countries on earth. the united states under donald trump stripped india of its preferred trade status. india retaliated by slapping tariffs on some american goods including even harley davidson motor bikes. so for the laugh year they've been trying to work out a way ahead and some small trade deal was meant to be the center piece of this visit. that trade deal has not materialized and just within the last week, president trump said don't expect any big trade deal with india until after november's election. he has made it pretty clear for quite a long time that he doesn't like the kind of high tariff that's india imposes and india has a trade surplus with

the united states. for trump, he says it is unfair. he says mr. modi is a good friend. he would expect more from india. i don't think we'll see anything agreed in that respect during this visit. there may be an announcement of some small arms sales. because india is on the verge of buying around two dozen military helicopters. but this is not a visit of i think, trade deals or big military deals. now, the person behind me introducing the leaders has just announce that had they are about to walk out. any moment now, she says, she talked earlier about the long and historic friendship went to those two great democracies. the world's two biggest democracies, india, of course,

the world's biggest was 1.2 billion people in the last election before the 600 million people voted. and as mr. trump said, those are big numbers. so president trump by the way is actually extremely popular here. in a recent set of research, india along with israel and poland were the countries that seemed to trump president trump most to do right thing in global affairs. so he has a high popularity rating. so many decades ago, india was morale i'd with the soviet union than the united states. as recently as 2008, india bought almost nothing in terms of military hardware from the united states. that has now changed

dramatically. india buys perhaps $20 billion worth of military equipment. so the relationship has deepened. and indeed, part of reason for this trip is to deepen that mil kwirm equipment so the relationship deepens. there are many things that both countries share, for example, india and china border each other. india also borders afghanistan and the recent truce between or at least week of peace between the united states and the taliban has raised fears in india so strategically, the united states is very, very important for india and certainly when president trump goes to new delhi tomorrow and meets political and business