you were still awake? i waited up for her. i couldn t go to sleep until i heard that she was in the house. they chatted briefly and said goodnight. the next morning, jessie s mom popped into her daughters room before work and saw jessie still fast asleep. nothing that you could ever think was odd when you left, i would imagine? no, no, and this was her first morning to sleep in for a very long time. joy returned home for lunch and saw that jessie wasn t downstairs, ready for her afternoon violin lesson. i went to the top of the stairs and i was like, jessie? nothing. so, then i went in and i came around the bed and then i kind of wiggled her a little bit and nothing. and then i knew. this is not good. this is not good. joy made a frantic call to 9-1-1. what s the problem? my daughter is blue.
wrong. i said is she gone? and joy, no more words came, just tears. so i raced home. but when buck arrived home, police cars on a crime scene truck were already in the driveway. i went in the door, through the yellow tape and when i saw joy s eyes in the living room, and then i knew that jess was gone. buck wasn t allowed in jessie s rooms because police were in there, trying to figure out what had happened. detective richard thickens of the hartford police department were one of the first on the scene. he looked around, found a typical teenager s messy bedroom. nothing strange there but when he found jessie s bodies, it was clear to the detective that jesse did not die of natural causes. the first thing i noticed is that there was red marks running pretty much all the way
did attack this girl in rich field, but there is no way that he could ve killed our friend. but the detective who just interrogated daniel thought the opposite. did you believe that daniel could have killed jesse? yes, it was just a sense that you got, a feeling you. got that you were sitting across from a killer. yes. detective thickens went to grill dan himself. i was hopeful we would get more information to advance our case. when was the last time you saw her? last week i think. daniel admitted to having a romantic feelings for jessie, but swore through sobs that he had nothing to do with the murder. what do you think happened too jessie? i have no idea. do you think it could have been accidental? i don t know why somebody would do that to her. but detectives did not believe him and he fit the
places it around her neck, he then strangles her. there were searches on serial killers. there were surges on bondage. did dan then, who was big into theater, a straight a student, was he also a serial killer in training? i think that is the potential. these items. prosecutors showed the jury all of the physical evidence. the dna, the tapes, the wipes, the likely murder weapons that tied daniel to jessie s death. through it all, daniel sat quietly at the defense table, looking at no one, showing little emotion. even when the evidence that the public had never heard before. dna that the state argued showed that he not only killed jessie, but also raped her. daniels dna was found under jessie s fingernails and inside of her.
against a woman in the park. but after police spoke with him, they realize that he could also be guilty of something far worse. did you leave that interview having any doubt that dana was the killer? none whatsoever. daniel told investigators that on the morning that jessie was killed, he was in a park reading a book and when they checked the security cameras,. we found video that put him there. but that did not mean that daniel was innocent. detectives decided to search the park, combing through more than a dozen garbage pins. hoping to find anything that linked daniel to jessie s murder. in one garbage, can this cereal box full of ligature s. ropes that were very likely the murder weapons used to strangle jessie, plus a whole lot more. bloody sanitizing wipes, tape, shoelaces. i guess he didn t believe