founders yes, i would skip so much, i found that area. nobody else would go back there. but he said he had not gone back there the night danielle had disappeared. derrick said he spent that night at home. around 8:30 my dad left to go to a pool tournament, again i state on the computer job searching. between facebook, job searching, and tv. that s what i was doing all night. i m not really sure if there s any history on my computer. there might be. i ll have to take a look. are you going to have a habit of raising the? history of real bad habit of doing it. you have derek telling you of his noodling around for jobs on the computer, but you re not gonna find a record of that because i believe the history. if you are not doing nothing wrong then why are you leaving your history? derek explains that he did it to protect his account from hackers. i ve had about habit of it ever since my last facebook got hacked. but what about his alibi?
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
your dad left at 8:30 before the pool tournament. what time to do between 12 and one. he cannot account for himself that night, convincingly. there is nobody there in the house that can put him there. no solid alibi, and now new evidence it was in and it did not look good for derek. i m asking you, was she alive when she left that area out there around your house, tuesday night? coming up. a chilling discovery at derrick s house. we found two shovels that had, what appeared to be, blood on them. but this case is far from closed. police are about to learn that the last paying from daniels cell phone came from near here, an rv part. you have no idea who s coming and going? they re no idea. it makes you wonder. makes me wonder a lot. when dateline continues. ontinues i ve got symptom relief control of my crohn s means everything to me.
yeah. i felt like i was letting a murderer go. reporter: detectives were now certain that je michael was danielle s killer. and they knew where the investigation was going next. they had to deconstruct je michael s alibi, the one that put him home studying that night. it turns out the family members who said they were with him, weren t actually in the same room with him. they couldn t say they d seen him with their own eyes. we actually could not get confirmation from mother or grandmother that he was there. reporter: which meant the only person truly vouching for him was his study partner and best friend, dominic. we brought him to the sheriff s office, gave him the same opportunity and he lawyered up. reporter: did you go through this scenario, that you re two guys in trouble. and one of you might be able to do yourself some good. we let him know, very bluntly, that the house of cards is falling. the first one on the train gets the ride. reporter: four days later, pol