monster. you re not going to win this battle. all right, detective. no go. still, detectives didn t have enough. it didn t rest in that night? no. do you think to release some back into the community? yeah, i felt like a sliding a murderer go. detectives were now certain that je michael was daniel s killer. they knew with investigations going next. they had to deconstruct je michael s alibi. the one that put it on starting that night. it turns out, family members had said they were with him, weren t in the room with him. they couldn t say they seen him with their own eyes. asking for confirmation from other grandmother that he was there. which meant that the only person truly vouching for him was a study partner and best friend, dominic. we brought him into the sheriff s office. give him the same opportunity. did you go to the scenario? to cousin trouble and one might
timeframe. it s not really super cold here. a burn pit. curious. there is more. we see a long life in a tree. we also found shovels. what appeared to be blood on them. a burn pit. a serious knife, shovels with maybe bloodstains. police thought their case might have cracked wide open. it spiked right up. you thought you saw the case. might be on to something. looking good until investigators did some testing. we did a presumptive applicator. back to square one. not blood. what about derek denying he knew daniel even though friends claimed he called her his sister? didn t that make him a liar? one of derek s friends cautioned, don t read too much into that. try to seem cool and saying evans s sister. everyone s a sister. evans brother. that s the kind of guy he has. detectives also spoke to one
their bright girl gone. danielle s mother ronna wasn t a south carolina restaurant when she got a call from her sister chena. your mind goes like this. i get in the car, and i get to my house, and i grabbed as many close as many as i could, and drive through the night. tina and daniels grandmother, kelly, also raced back home. they arrived to first. so what do you see when you pull up to the? house they simply saw i call the. police detective josh hamilton became the lead investigator for the police department. the families telling all your officers that she s a girl. absolutely. this is not like her to go to a runner. go to a beach with a. boyfriend totally out of character. but police thought it was possible that daniel left voluntarily and would turn on her own. give it 24 hours, you re
really, i don t go there. you can see him think, didn t it going to work. if je michael was rattled, he had good reason. investigators had made a big discovery. cinder blocks. the distant a concrete box, did you find items like that of the house? we did. an intent in the grass where one might? or to. there was to have daniel. they also found yellow rope. detective brinkley talk to je michael about that. do we tell you found the robe that she was tied with? then you found the rope. at your house? shouldn t be at my house. why shouldn t it be? cars had nothing to do that. by the cinder blocks? by the rope? why the polygraph? the evidence is not going to lie. that s gonna be the one thing that will get you in the end. detective gave je michael one last chance to confess. you re gonna look like a
restaurant near that north carolina virginia border, 150 miles away. and she s there right now. they were mad at adam. , we ve seen her. she s with a guy. fbi agents were dispatched to check it out. they re sending pictures back. the reasoning of her watching and take pictures of it. man, that s her. spitting image. got, yeah. this is it. we re down. we found. but, when the agents made contact with a girl it wasn t her. all those leads had chena simmons second-guessing her in six. many daniel had run away. a certain seeing things in the house that are missing. i was like, well, i haven t seen those sheets and. haven t seen that shirt. maybe she packed a bag and leap. it was other. if she is. then, the family received a call that made them think their prayers have been answered. investigators said daniel had been seen at a nearby hospital. what s more, she d been captured on surveillance video.