love with. her first love came with family seal of approval. je michael, like danielle, was a good kid, never a problem. varsity soccer, a dedicated runner with a laser-focused goal of becoming a marine after graduation. he i had his eyes set on what he s going to do it themselves? yeah, he seemed like a very ambitious child. i thought hey, this might be something good for danielle. i know they re young, but it seems like he has a plan for his life. danielle was daydreaming herself into that master plan. alexis mcdowell was one of danielle the best friends. she talked about how after her freshman year, her sophomore year she s going to do online classes and go with him into the military, wherever he was shipped to and be there with him. so she was talking about marriage, talking about having little danielle and je michael running around. she s very serious about
starting with its, friends firing off the occasional techs from his house. there is no way to tie him to daniels disappearance. rather, daniels family and friends remember is worry and concern for danielle. if anyone said anything, if anyone found her? je michael seems like he was very concerned. he was asking me, you know, is there any place that you can think of that she might have to or any people that she could have ran off? with alexis could not think of anyone, but danielle classmates had an idea of what it happened to the teen. the high school rumor mill was running wild and new leads or emerging out of all of that shot her. you still have all high school advocates of. they re alive, school and a bunch for friends who are prepared to come forward with their own version of what transpired. and the stories that police were getting, some of the
headed for daniels. they wanted to talk to his ex girlfriend. i had took my wallet and third against rwanda. and she came out and everything. she got in the car. we went to the creek. we sat down a chair for a while. but this wasn t an evening of reconciliation. it was another combustible on their breakup. something that raises the stakes way high. according to je michael, daniel had been told him often and from statues pregnant. she was supposed to take a pregnancy test in front of me. if the test came back positive, je michael was adam, he said he would provide first shot, but he would not keep danya. she snapped on me. she pashmina face. she s that man jumped on top of, micah deliver mean step. in the middle of the alleged by, je michael said he tucker by the throat. all i remember was i grabbed her, i was choking her. i blacked. je michael what he came to,
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
you know? it is devastating the bottom of that creek? yeah. yeah. more troubling still, chena simmons didn t feel like je michael had told the whole truth. it doesn t make any sense to me. i don t like the strike. neither did investigators. did that start satisfy? no. coming up a bold move to make the whole truth out of je michael feel something remarkable. when dateline continues. dateline continues.