keith morrison: it had been five months since 22-year-old 22-year-old chelsea bruck disappeared from big mike s annual halloween party. her costume had been found. it was found ripped underneath an abandoned building. this was interesting. it happened to be a hundred yards from the trailer park where harlan byrd had lived. what did you think when you saw that? the hair on the back of your head kind of stands up. coincidence? the detectives didn t think so. the first thing we did, we called harlan byrd in for another interview. you thought we ve found our guy here. yes. because you had been kind of wonky about him before, right? yes. things looked like they had been adding up. harlan came back to the station, this time with an attorney. how do you explain the items being found so close to your grand grandma s house? i can t explain it. do you have any thoughts to why some of her clothing would be found? none. a half mile from your grandma s place? n
chelsea s poison ivy costume. kind of tells you something, doub doesn t it? yes. that s a hard call. you don t have absolute confirmation it s her, but you know it s her. we had a pretty good idea. did you call her family or wait. we went out and told the family. we wanted them to know before they heard it because the media was showing up and we knew the news was all over it. we didn t want the bruck family to hear it that way. we went out and personally visited them and said we found the body. we don t know for sure if it s chelsea, but it s a female. we think it might be. you know, for it to come down to that, that was extra tough go out there and be the bearer of such bad news. becky wasn t family, of course, but it hit her hard pretty much the same. one of the ladies at work said they found a body. i went home, turned on the news, and sure enough they were by the railroad tracks and they had the helicopters.