chelsea s poison ivy costume. kind of tells you something, doub doesn t it? yes. that s a hard call. you don t have absolute confirmation it s her, but you know it s her. we had a pretty good idea. did you call her family or wait. we went out and told the family. we wanted them to know before they heard it because the media was showing up and we knew the news was all over it. we didn t want the bruck family to hear it that way. we went out and personally visited them and said we found the body. we don t know for sure if it s chelsea, but it s a female. we think it might be. you know, for it to come down to that, that was extra tough go out there and be the bearer of such bad news. becky wasn t family, of course, but it hit her hard pretty much the same. one of the ladies at work said they found a body. i went home, turned on the news, and sure enough they were by the railroad tracks and they had the helicopters.
around monroe county. it was, like, a build-up that whole summer that we couldn t wait to go to this halloween party. 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. 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. 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.
with people in the community, people that knew her. so i didn t have a reason to be concerned that anything bad would happen. so they left penny and becky, who still had 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. 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. where was chelsea? certainly she d turn up by the next day. at the time i guess there was a hope that maybe something silly happened.
bruck disappeared, the detectives decided it was time for a serious talk with big mike williams. chelsea. ok, you know her? i don t know her, know her. but i do know who she is. funny thing about mike. on the one hand he seemed cooperative. but on the other.. we asked for his consent to search the house, you know, for any kind of evidence from the investigation and make sure chelsea wasn t even in the house. and he denied us consent. so, they did it the hard way. they came in with 13 swat guys in full gear. and i said, do you have a search warrant? and they presented it to me right then and then. and then are you gonna let us in or we going to kick in the door? that s when i let them in. they re getting tough with you at this point. yeah. they went through my house and they were searching for things, like, they left a terrible
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