at the hospital, visiting her. we thought they had found her and that just done it for me. reporter: on march 29th, almost three weeks after danielle disappeared, her family and friends gathered for a balloon release. her friend alexis was there. so was je michael. she remembers he was holding out hope that danielle was alive. he s like, hey, and gave me a hug. and he said, i just, you know, hope we find her and she s okay. reporter: up until then, danielle s aunt chena had managed to stay strong for the family. but with the release of those balloons she felt her resolve and confidence sailing away with them. for the first time then i felt like i was giving up hope. i was starting to feel like that she may not ever come home, and how would we be able to live
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yellow rope. detective brinkley hit je michael with that news. what if i tell you that we found the rope that she was tied up with? then y all found the rope. at your house? shouldn t be at my house. why shouldn t it be? cause i had nothing to do with it. why the cinderblocks? why the rope? yeah. why the polygraph? the evidence is not gonna lie. that s gonna be the one thing that will get you in the end. reporter: the detective gave je michael one last chance to confess. you re gonna look like a monster. you re not gonna win this battle. all right, detective. reporter: no go. and still, detectives didn t have enough. so you didn t arrest him that night? no. reporter: did you think you were releasing back into the community a potentially yeah, it felt like it was reporter: violent character? yeah. i felt like i was letting a murderer go.
time. je michael was there to confess. why the [ bleep ] did i do that? reporter: now, he wasn t that self-assured kid police encountered days before. i m going to pray to you right now, father jesus. reporter: the person taking the confession would again be detective brinkley. came into the interview room, sat down, and i said, je michael, tell me in your own words what happened. reporter: the night of the murder, je michael said, he and dominic sneaked out of the house and headed for danielle s. he wanted to talk to his ex-girlfriend. i had took my wallet, and i threw it against her window, you know. she came out and everything, and she got in the car. and we went to the creek. and we sat down and we talked for awhile. reporter: but this wasn t an evening of reconciliation. there was another combustible in their break-up. something that raised the stakes way higher.
on his own. je michael malloy said that he and danielle had broken out, but he was still dear to her, i still love her she s a good girl. he pitched in just how much danielle s family cared for him to the former boyfriend wanted to find her just as much as anyone so law enforcement pumped him for information. so she skipped school, she did not have a lot? she didn t like fourth period, because we re close and so she got believed. she just normally to me, but she didn t have the best of clothes. you can forward you re gonna for. je michael. offered his own theories about why she disappeared, and.
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