the word help was scratched in the ground. we found two shovels that had what appeared to be blood on them. that just did it for me. i can t even think about how scared she was. a mother s worst panic. there are no signs to get there. just follow the rough, sandy trail from the subdivisions above, turn a corner and there it is, a creek, a low-twisting moving body of water in north carolina, that s nothing less than a garden of eden for teenagers playing hooky from high school. it was like a beach. if the weather was good, her decision was made, go right to the creek and bypass school all together. tell me about an afternoon at the creek, caroline, what would you do? just go swimming. after we were done swimming we would sit by the fire and get dry, and hurry up and go back to the bus and take it home. they would play all day like frisky otters. innocent fun until one day when this secret teenaged world collided with tragedy. i just knew in my heart s
reporter: this time, adam brinkley, the detective who found the body, would do the questioning. je michael had a lawyer there, too. you re saying you didn t have anything to do with it. yes, sir. how do you think that s going to make you look? i mean unless y all can prove i had something to do with it, which y all are not going to be able to, because i didn t have anything to do with it, i m going to look perfectly fine. well then, help me with this. why did you fail the polygraph? i was nervous. i m nervous sitting here now. so i mean reporter: je michael said he didn t kill danielle. but if he had, he said he wouldn t have been so stupid as to hide the body next to his own house. i mean if you re saying you think i m a smart kid. yeah i you know i do think you re a smart kid. why in the world would i put her down the street and around the corner, then? you re a fisherman. you re looking for that moment when you ve set the hook in the mouth, huh? yeah,
to make you look? i mean unless y all can prove i had something to do with it, which y all are not gonna be able to, because i didn t have anything to do with it, i m gonna look perfectly fine. well then, help me with this. why did you fail the polygraph? i was nervous. i m nervous sitting here now. so i mean reporter: je michael said he didn t kill danielle. but if he had, he said he wouldn t have been so stupid as to hide the body next to his own house. i mean if you re saying you think i m a smart kid. yeah i you know i do think you re a smart kid. why in the world would i put her down the street and around the corner thern? reporter: you re a fisherman. you re looking for that moment when you ve set the hook in the mouth, huh? yeah, and that s did you see it with this kid? no. reporter: but je michael was in for a surprise. while he was sitting there, detectives armed with a warrant were searching his house. and next to his driveway, oh what a discov