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in a quiet rural township in michigan, as october chilled into autumn, two young women prepared for the social event of the season. it s gonna be great. there will be so many people. so they imagined. , so they hoped, in their naivete. then so many others of a particular demographic of the farms and in the small towns around moran county. it was a buildup that whole summer that we coordinate way to go to the halloween party. 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 everyone knew, big mike has the biggest halloween party. and after all, their friends were going and there d be bands and noise and excitement and, who knew what all th ....
they arrested him then for murder. but before the news went public, becky heard about it, and this was an added shock. the friend who told her about daniel s arrest, a woman named jessica, also worked at olga s kitchen, and has a son with, of all people, daniel clay. daniel had called jessica before he was taken to his cell. jessica, it s dan. i m going to jail for a while. a long while. and she s crying hysterical. she took a big breath, and she said her son s dad had killed chelsea, and she s like, i m so sorry. and then i started crying because i felt bad for her. it was crazy that it was literally one person away, like, in our circle. but daniel clay had only confessed to an accidental killing, not murder, so he pleaded not guilty. after all, no eyewitnesses, no hard proof he meant to kill chelsea. the ladies man was going to trial. coming up the prosecution says it was murder. he obviously used massive force against her and ultimately killed her. daniel clay takes ....
About chelsea bruck except us and her mother, is that she had brittle bone disease. brittle bone disease is a simple [inaudible] a touch, a tap where [bleep] breaks. like my bones, i break my fingers a lot because of it. so that s what happened. it was an accident. i had to do something to relax daniel clay and open him up to talk to me and tell me what happened. so this is where the brittle bone disease came in. and at that time, i think, in the interview, is where the turning point, daniel clay kind of leaned back and was like, oh, yeah. yeah, that brittle bone i ve heard of that. that s i had my hand broke one time real and he goes on. the detective could almost see the wheels turning in daniel s head. if her bones broke easily, could he say her death wasn t his fault? daniel, not so calm anymore, asked for a cigarette and told a new story that he saw chelsea walking down the road after the party and offered her a ride. ....
what was that all about? so we had received a tip very early on in the investigation about a white male with a moustache that had showed up around 3:00 in the morning at a residence on war road. this is about a quarter of a mile or so, not even, from where chelsea s shoe was found. this guy shows up at three in the morning, pounding on this guy s door. says he s coming from the party, he s looking for a place to stay. you know, the the the gentleman says, you know, you can t stay here. you have you have to get going. the party-goer took a snooze on the man s front porch, but he then left. and the homeowner found the guy s vest the next morning and called the tip line. the vest had a pocketknife and some rope inside of it. so this guy shows back up, wants his vest back. he gets his vest and he leaves. weird. back at the time, it didn t seem like much of a lead. but who knew? so they combed through the party video. and we actually could see several frames where this guy ....
I kinda babied her a little bit. like, oh, you re gonna be okay. it s gonna be okay. she wanted to go home right then. oh? it s gonna be okay, it s gonna be okay. just drink a little bit. it ll go away. you know, and after a minute or two, she was fine. then she was back, enjoying the party. then, about 1: 00am, it was time to go home. earlier, chelsea had asked penny for a ride home, but sometime during the bonfire they lost sight of each other. and penny s sister had work the next morning, and so had to leave right then. she had to be up at 6:00, so oh my so it was time to go. such confusion. by then becky was holding chelsea s phone because chelsea had no pockets in her poison ivy get-up, but becky couldn t find chelsea either. and i was, like like, what do i do? like, do i find a different ride? do i get stuck here? like, find go find chelsea? i assumed that, you know, she knew other people and she someone would give her a ride home. i felt like s ....