defendant daniel bartelt guilty with intentional homicide. ladies and gentlemen, was a sheer verdict? not a good day for anybody. nobody won. months later at the sentencing, buck stunned the courtroom when he said this. dan, i forgive you. as i have every single day since we found it was you. in response to such unbelievable grace, daniel looked straightaway and buck and continued to deny his guilt. doc, joy, i can t give you the answers that you are looking for. i pray for you, for all of you, my hope is that i believe that someday i will be before a court that will know that my
i m natalie morales. as police searched for evidence against jessie blodgett s killer, they also looked for a motive and found something about jessie s friend daniel that sent chills throughout the community. here is andrea canning with the conclusion of friends until death war. daniel bartelt had confessed against a violent attack against a woman in the park. but after police spoke with him, they realize that he could also be guilty of something far worse. did you leave that interview having any doubt that dana was the killer? none whatsoever. daniel told investigators that on the morning that jessie was killed, he was in a park reading a book and when they checked the security cameras,. we found video that put him there. but that did not mean that daniel was innocent. detectives decided to search the park, combing through more
the murder weapons used to strangle jessie, plus a whole lot more. bloody sanitizing wipes, tape, shoe laces. i guess he didn t believe that we would have made the effort to go through the garbage to find anything. police sent the evidence for testing and forensics showed that both jessie and daniel s dna were on the ropes found in the park. detebtiv detectived shared the incriminating evidence with jessie s parents. the other half of me was like, what happened to dan? daniel bartelt was officially charged with murder. buck and joy tried to wrap their heads around what happened to the funny teenager and had nothing but empathy for their parents. they didn t do this. they didn t do anything wrong. they provided a great environment for him and his sister. they re good people. i can t say he s totally evil
just got back from college but we don t think it s dan. after all, dan was more than jessie s friend. he was her first love in high school. he had everything going for him. he was a straight a student. got the lead role in most of the musicals. very talented. i like this kid because he could make me laugh and he came from a nice family. we said it s not dan. he s a good kid. jessie s friends agreed. when detectives called daniel s cell phone they were with him at the blodgett house grieving together. we were all crying and our friend dan his phone rang and he was like i got call under to the police station for questioning. amelia and jackie drove dan into the police station this afternoon. they assumed it was routine questioning about jessie. you know, dan, they might question you as a suspect. that s what they ve been doing
motive and found something about her friend daniel that sent chills throughout the community. here s the conclusion of friends until death. daniel bartelt confessed to a violent attack against a woman in a park. but after police spoke with them, they realized he could also be guilty of something far worse. did you leave that interview having any doubt that dan was the killer? none whatsoever. daniel told investigators on the morning that jessie was killed he was in a park reading a book. and when they checked the security cameras. we found video that put him there. but that didn t mean daniel was innocent. detectives decided to search the park, combing through more than a dozen garbage bins hoping to find anything that linked daniel to jessie s murder. in one garbage can this cereal box full of ligatures. ropes that were very likely