he's mike samuels, the club's chief of security.d you see exactly what really happened. employees doing their job, showing an ejected patron to the street. no one makes a move for her. now, this is the little bit of camera's up here where we see that video of paula then leaving. >> correct. after kevin had left. >> reporter: and you're in that picture? >> correct. i walk back over. i got paula. and i walked her back out this way just like we're walking. >> reporter: that's front-door manager samuels 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 there were no further problems on the street. mike, when armchair detectives say, look, she's a hot woman. security guys had their eye on her. it's easy to get rid of the boyfriend for a minor violation, and then we've got the girl to ourselves. >> that's insane. that's completely ludicrous. especially since the fact that we saw her leave with an

mike samuels is the front-door manager. >> she got to the sidewalk. she went around to the right towards the east. >> reporter: she's solo. >> 100% by herself. >> reporter: 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, says, we're sending a detective. heart just sinks. >> reporter: the detectives ask kevin, did paula have any body piercings? yes, he said, she did. >> he pulled out a baggy. a ziploc baggy. and there was two piercings, two posts. they're all, like, charcoaled, like all burnt, blackened, you know? and he said, would these be the piercings? and i lean, and i look close. i'm, like, no. checked out some photos of paula on kevin's iphone. they studied an earring. >> he pulled out a photocopy of her earring. and i knew it was her. and that was the worst day of my life. >> reporter: the earring, paula's earring, had been found at the scene of a burning dump