after the detective s warning, the suspect tried another story. this time he claimed he had cut his finger while cooking. nobody in their right mind would lie about cutting themselves if it happened at home cooking. okay. okay. what happened? just be honest. i ve gone to the park before. i ve been there. as the police continue to press the young man, he began to crack and quickly. and you were in your van, correct? or your mom s van. yes. and you went after that girl, right? yes. he admitted to going after melissa richards with a knife and then offered a bizarre explanation for why he did it. i wanted to scare someone because everyone else is so confident. i don t understand it. i need someone to be like me. detectives placed him under
the interviews with jessie blodgett s friends revealed nothing new and then detectives in the park case got a huge break. one that would change the course of both investigations. melissa s description of her attacker s van triggered the memory of a deputy who routinely patrolled the park where she was assaulted. deputy myer had approached us and said several weeks ago i was in that park and there was a blue van parked in the exact same spot that you had described. parked the exact same way. at the time, the deputy thought the van seemed suspicious and ran its license plate, but he found nothing alarming and continued his patrol. now, his intuition was telling him the van was the same one involved in melissa s attack. he had no paper record of the plate, but in his squad car, the computer kept a log of old searches and after hours of back tracking bingo.
looking at me saying this. i m thinking, kid, do you honestly believe i believe you with this. i think dan s a sociopath. he doesn t seem to have the conscious or if he does, he doesn t care. buck and joy have accepted they may never hear the truth from daniel or know why he turned so violent. daniel was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole. for the attacker on melissa richards, he was sentenced to five more years. melissa s our hero. if it wasn t for her, they wouldn t have caught him. we are forever indebted and grateful to her for that. the police and the blodgetts commend you and feel like other women could have been murdered if it wasn t for you. i tried to help out as much as i could. i just wanted to help them out. i don t know. i tried.
cooperative. and almost immediately investigators noticed suspicious cuts and bruises on his body. what happened to your thumb? got stabbed with a screw at work. like a cart. he had road rash on his leg with injuries that looked consistent with the injuries that someone might have had with attacking melissa richards. detectives were skeptical about the work injury story? in fact, they were sure this 19-year-old didn t even have a job. if we checked with your employer, would you still have your job? no. that s what i thought. when did you lose your job? a while ago. it s the first time we had him in a lie. picked up my chair and moved it over next to him. started different phase of the interview. no more lies. it just makes things worse.
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