Did you take that girl . Did you have anything to do with her disappearing at all . No. A halloween mystery that will leave you chilled to the bone. What did you think when you saw that . The hair on the back of your neck stands up. Reporter in a quiet rural township in southeastern michigan, as october chilled into autumn two young women prepared for the social event of the season. Its gonna be great. Itll be so many people. Reporter or so they imagined, so they hoped, in their sunny naivety. They and so many others of a particular demographic, on the farms and in the small towns around Monroe County. It was, like, a buildup that whole summer that we couldnt wait to go to this Halloween Party. Reporter halloween Becky Brinson and her friend Chelsea Bruck just loved dressing up for halloween. Chelsea and becky worked together at a restaurant called olgas kitchen in monroe and, as they served their customers, they talked endlessly about what was coming. This wasnt going to be just any H
Did you take that . Did you have anything to do with her disappearing at all . No. A halloween mystery that will leave you chilled to the bone. Very eerie place. The trains going by, the echoes. What did you think when you saw that . The hair on the back of the neck stands up. I have to find her. In quiet southeastern michigan as october chills into autumn two young women prepare for the social event of the season. It will be great. So many people. So they imagined. So they hoped. They and so many others of a demographics on the small towns and farms around Monroe County. It was a build up the whole summer. We couldnt wait to go to this Halloween Party. Halloween. Becky and her friend, chelsea just loved to dress up for halloween. Chelsea and becky worked together at a restaurant called olgas kitchen in monroe and as they served customers they talked endlessly about what was coming. It was big mikes annual Halloween Bash of 2014. Everyone knew big mike has the biggest Halloween Party.
i showed him. he told me it was a poison ivy costume. we actually contemplated keeping it cause it looked cool. yeah. and decided that it wasn t worth our time, threw it back down right where it was underneath the plywood and then continued to look for scrap metal. the two left with what little metal they could salvage and forgot all about it until about a week later, i was at work and i saw a poster for the missing girl wearing that costume. oh, and immediately you thought? hey, that looks just like what i found. so, should he report it? well, he probably should, he knew but, after all, he touched that costume. couldn t that make him look kind of suspicious? i ve seen enough television shows to know what dna is. yep. and i was around the same age as the girl. there were just so many circumstances that could make me look like a suspect. i contemplated it. i didn t want to turn it in. i just wanted to leave it alone and pretend like it didn t exist, b
demeanor, cause she had been real upbeat during the whole investigation. you could just feel feel negativity. you just she knew at that point, i think, that like the air coming out, yeah. yeah. spring. people go outside. they see things. was this here before? was this here when you came that day, this berm, this earthen thing you re climbing up? yeah. it wasn t as big to my knowledge but it was definitely there. erik kassab and a friend were trying to make some quick cash finding and selling abandoned bits of metal. this was 10 miles from big mike s. that day, i was comin here to
for easter dinner. and then the phone rings. and our sergeant called and he said, i m needing you to come in. we have chelsea s costume and wig. and i m thinking, are you sure? are you sure this is hers? he texted texted me a photograph of it and you get that feeling in your heart and stomach and you re like, wow, this is this is what we ve been lookin for for a long time. the costume had been ripped at the straps and the crotch. important? maybe. they sent it to the state lab for tests. and officers picked through the discarded junk on foot, by air, all day, and into the evening. and, right away, that easter sunday, the detectives brought erik kassab to the station for a talk. it s suspicious that he just happens to find this costume. he waited a week to call us. so, there s a lot of things that are looking kind of suspicious. just as erik had feared. did you go to that party by chance? no. tons of people went to this so we re trying to talk to everybod