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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 plac ....
harm to her? no. did you have anything to do with her disappearing? no. at all? no. reporter: adding to the mystery where it all began. you re in the middle of nowhere. it was pitch black. you had the majority of people in costumes, disguised. a worst case scenario to start an investigation reporter: so many dead ends. one big question was chelsea still alive? i had to find her. she says, oh, my god, brian, that s her shoe. reporter: a halloween mystery. that will leave you chilled to the bone. reporter: what did you think when you saw that? the hair on the back of your neck kinda stands up. reporter: i m lester holt. and this is dateline . here s keith morrison with the halloween party. 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. it s gonna be great. it ll be so many people. reporter: or so they imagined, so they hop ....
i did not do anything to that girl. i did not. did you take that girl and do harm to her? no. did you have anything to do with her disappearing? no. at all? no. reporter: adding to the mystery where it all began. you re in the middle of nowhere. it was pitch black. you had the majority of people in costumes, disguised. a worst case scenario to start an investigation reporter: so many dead ends. one big question was chelsea still alive? i had to find her. she says, oh, my god, brian, that s her shoe. reporter: a halloween mystery. that will leave you chilled to the bone. reporter: what did you think when you saw that? the hair on the back of your neck kinda stands up. reporter: i m lester holt. and this is dateline . here s keith morrison with the halloween party. 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. it s gonn ....
to receive mental health care at a out-patient clinic in pennsylvania. he was told he would be unable to get an appointment for six months. when that employee left another va employee lean in to tell the veteran that if he told her he was thinking of killing himself she would be able to get him appointment much sooner in three months instead of six. luckily that veteran wasn t considering suicide. but what about those veterans who are? how many of the tens of thousands veterans that va admitted have been left on waiting list for weeks, months and even year for care were seeking mental health care appointments? house education and workforce committee are suicidal or edgeing toward suicide as a result of not getting the care they earned? despite the increase in budget, program and staff the suicide rate among veterans has remained more or less stable since 1999 with approximately 22 veterans committing suicide every day. the most recent data has shown over the last thre ....
investigation. was somebody lying? did you have anything to do with her disappearing? the halloween mystery that will leave you chilled to the bone. very eerie place. the train. the echo. the hair on the back of your neck stands up. i had to find her. it s gonna be great. it ll 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 build-up that whole summer that we couldn t 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 olga s kitchen in monroe and, as they served their customers, they talked endlessly about what was coming. this wasn t going to be just any halloween party. it was big mike s annual halloween bash of 2014. everyone just everyo ....