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  Speaker 1: On Chris Hansen right now on Crime Watch Daily. From
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  Speaker 1: here in New York. They were a young couple, fresh
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  Speaker 1: in love.
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  Speaker 2: She fell very quickly until.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one year old Kelsey Fight got trapped in a
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  Speaker 1: raging fire.
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  Speaker 3: We believe that Kelsey fought the entire time.
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  Speaker 1: Is a faulty furnace to blame or is there a
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  Speaker 1: more sinister clue buried in the ashes?
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  Speaker 4: What did you determine after examining her body?
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  Speaker 1: A mystery driver caught on surveillance video adug's suspicious behaviors.
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  Speaker 1: Crime Watch Daily's Anna Garcia investigates.
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  Speaker 4: You're pretty sure that that person is the killer.
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  Speaker 1: Then a bloodbath in Ohio. A grandmother is violently stabbed
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  Speaker 1: to death, her six year old granddaughter attacked in the
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  Speaker 1: next room. A living witness who tells police who did it.
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  Speaker 5: She said it was uncle Clarence.
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  Speaker 1: And with that, Clarence Elkins gets life in prison for murder.
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  Speaker 6: But I didn't do it. I didn't do it.
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  Speaker 1: Today locked up behind bars, How we turned detective to
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  Speaker 1: track down the real killer.
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  Speaker 6: I realized that somebody was framing me and in.
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  Speaker 1: A scene out of CSI how a cigarette butt set
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  Speaker 1: an innocent man free? Right now.
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  Speaker 4: Andrea Isisenser with Crimewatch Daily.
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  Speaker 3: Jason Mattera a crime Watch Barry this.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 8: I'm here with Crimewatch and Michelle from Crime Watch Daily.
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  Speaker 2: Ana Garcia from Crime Watch is crime Watch Deal.
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  Speaker 3: We'll find you again, we always do.
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  Speaker 1: Look Hello everyone, Welcome to Crime Watch Daily. I'm Chris Hansen.
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  Speaker 1: We start today with new details and I'm troubling mystery.
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  Speaker 1: A young woman texts her boyfriend goodnight and heads to bed,
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  Speaker 1: but what happened in the next few hours remains unknown.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Ana Garcia, Chris.
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  Speaker 4: It's started as a call to a house fire reported
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  Speaker 4: by a couple delivering newspapers, but when investigators got inside
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  Speaker 4: the home, they realized this was no accident.
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  Speaker 2: A fire in the middle of the night shows no mercy,
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  Speaker 2: he said, we have a problem.
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  Speaker 4: An alarm echoes from the flames as firefighters battle to
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  Speaker 4: save Kelsey fight.
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  Speaker 3: We believe that Kelsey fought the entire time.
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  Speaker 2: It appears to be a tragic accident.
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  Speaker 8: We just assumed that she was not capable of getting
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  Speaker 8: out of the structure in time.
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  Speaker 4: Until out of the smoldering ashes rises A cold blooded mystery.
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  Speaker 4: What does your gut tell you that happened in there.
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  Speaker 4: Anyone who ever met Kelsey fight couldn't help but love her.
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  Speaker 4: How would you describe Kelsey?
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  Speaker 7: Kelsey was fun and silly and energetic and beautiful.
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  Speaker 9: Yes she was.
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  Speaker 8: She was.
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  Speaker 10: She took after your mother.
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  Speaker 4: Randy Fike says you could always find his daughter in
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  Speaker 4: a crowd by her infectious laugh and a distinct goldfish
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  Speaker 4: tattoo on her back. She was a free spirit, liked art, music, dance.
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  Speaker 4: She was happy.
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  Speaker 5: She was happy.
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  Speaker 4: The petit twenty one year old was excited about a
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  Speaker 4: new job and her mom, Mary Joe, says Kelsey had
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  Speaker 4: finally met the love of her life. Tell me about
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  Speaker 4: her meeting Alex.
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  Speaker 8: She fell very quickly for Alex. He's tall, very nice looking,
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  Speaker 8: good manners.
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  Speaker 4: Alex Young was a reservist with the Nebraska National Guard.
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  Speaker 4: Were they in love?
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 4: After a little less than a year of dating, Alex
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  Speaker 4: gives Kelsey a diamond promise ring and vows to take
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  Speaker 4: care of her.
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  Speaker 8: I had been teasing her about I wish that she'd
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  Speaker 8: hurry up, because I really wanted some grand babies.
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  Speaker 4: To save money for a house. They temporarily move into
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  Speaker 4: a mobile home together.
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  Speaker 8: It was an older trailer, and it very much looked
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  Speaker 8: like an older seventies trailer, but it was what they
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  Speaker 8: could afford.
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  Speaker 4: It's hidden off the main drag of Carneie, Nebraska, not
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  Speaker 4: an affluent part of town, but for this young couple
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  Speaker 4: in love, it was their first little piece of paradise together.
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  Speaker 4: But were you concerned at all about her safety?
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  Speaker 11: No?
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  Speaker 12: Not really.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, looking back on, maybe I should have been.
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  Speaker 4: June sixteenth was like any normal day for Kelsey. She worked,
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  Speaker 4: came home around five thirty, and, according to a neighbor,
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  Speaker 4: took her bass at hound Dante for a walk around
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  Speaker 4: nine that night. The only thing out of the ordinary
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  Speaker 4: that day Alex was out of town. Did Kelcei ever
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  Speaker 4: describe any fear about where she lived or the fact
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  Speaker 4: that Alex was away.
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  Speaker 7: She was kind of lonely and but nothing that she
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  Speaker 7: felt scared.
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  Speaker 4: Kelsie often stayed with her parents when Alex was away,
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  Speaker 4: but this time she was busy packing for an upcoming
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  Speaker 4: trip to see her best friend, Jamie Graham. When is
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  Speaker 4: the last time you heard from Kelsey? She called me.
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  Speaker 8: That Monday night. She had told me she was planning
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  Speaker 8: on just getting organized, getting ready to leave.
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  Speaker 4: In some ways. It's kind of a blessing. You had
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  Speaker 4: a chance to talk to her, yes, and we.
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  Speaker 8: Ended the conversation the way we always did. Love you,
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  Speaker 8: I'll talk to you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: But tomorrow didn't come, not for her.
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  Speaker 4: Just a few hours later, at around four point thirty,
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  Speaker 4: the mobile home erupts in a hellish ball of fire,
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  Speaker 4: Tragically Kelsey's inside.
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  Speaker 3: We received a phone call, a nine to one one
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  Speaker 3: call from two passer buyers. They were delivering papers and
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  Speaker 3: they smelled smoke coming from the trailer court. They entered
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  Speaker 3: the trailer court and saw that one of the trailers
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  Speaker 3: was on fire.
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  Speaker 4: Carney Police investigator Doug McCarty says, the flames are so
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  Speaker 4: intense neighbors are forced to stay back. The only thing
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  Speaker 4: they can do is scream for Kelsey and her dog
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  Speaker 4: Dante through the door. But the only sound they hear
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  Speaker 4: a blaring fire alarm.
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  Speaker 3: The rear the trailer, the back bedroom, as we found
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  Speaker 3: out later, was on fire. It was fully in gold
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  Speaker 3: the smoke was coming from it.
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  Speaker 4: Sadly, by the time firefighters put out the flames, it's
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  Speaker 4: too late.
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  Speaker 2: To save Kelsey.
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  Speaker 4: Her lifeless body found on the floor near the back bedroom.
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  Speaker 4: Did it look like she was trying to get out.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: At first we thought that it was an accident, and
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  Speaker 3: she tried to get out in this succumbed to the fire.
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  Speaker 4: Was there a dog, Yeah, her.
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  Speaker 3: U basset hound was found in the living room of
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  Speaker 3: the trailer and he was deceased.
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  Speaker 4: And so they were not together.
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  Speaker 3: They were not together.
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  Speaker 4: Did you find that odd?
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  Speaker 3: We thought it was a little odd. We weren't sure
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  Speaker 3: how the dog died.
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  Speaker 4: The nightmare begins for Kelsey's mom and dad with an
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  Speaker 4: early morning knock from a police officer and a chaplain.
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  Speaker 10: And opened the door and they said, do you have
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  Speaker 10: a daughter named Kelsey's fight? Yeah, And they asked if
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  Speaker 10: she had a tattoo of a goldfish on her back.
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  Speaker 6: And she did.
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  Speaker 8: He said, we have a problem. They had said that
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  Speaker 8: they're going to fire at Kelsey's home and that she
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  Speaker 8: did not survive.
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  Speaker 4: How did you take that news.
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  Speaker 8: I kept telling him that they were wrong, they were wrong.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't her, It wasn't her.
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  Speaker 8: He kept saying, yes, it was, Yes, it.
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  Speaker 4: Was because of the tattoo.
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  Speaker 8: Because of the tattoo.
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  Speaker 4: What did the police tell you initially that.
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  Speaker 8: It was a fire and that she just was not
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  Speaker 8: able to get out of the trailer.
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  Speaker 4: They suddenly remembered something Alex had told them about the
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  Speaker 4: mobile home when Kelsey first moved in, and now it
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  Speaker 4: haunts them.
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  Speaker 10: There was Loler mobile home and Alex he said something
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  Speaker 10: about having a faulty furnace, and that was my first
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  Speaker 10: thought that you know, the furnace had caught an enfirement,
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  Speaker 10: you know, not the case.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, it was far from the case. After taking
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  Speaker 4: a closer look at Kelsey's burned body, cops realize this
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  Speaker 4: isn't a death by fire.
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  Speaker 2: It's a murder.
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  Speaker 4: It's Allan's based on what you're saying. That she could
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  Speaker 4: have been killed three times over. Yes, up next, what
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  Speaker 4: really happened inside this mobile home? Do you believe that
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  Speaker 4: the fire was set to cover up the murder?
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  Speaker 8: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: And who's behind the wheel of this car?
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  Speaker 4: Who would want to kill Kelsey?
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  Speaker 5: I have noe yet.
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  Speaker 1: Now back to our story Mystery after Midnight once again,
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  Speaker 1: here's Ana Garcia.
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  Speaker 4: Please say they don't think that Kelsey Fyke's murder was
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  Speaker 4: a random robbery gone wrong. In fact, they say evidence
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  Speaker 4: at the scene points to this being a very personal attack.
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  Speaker 4: Kelsey Fike's parents are beyond heartbroken. When do you miss
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  Speaker 4: Kelsey the most?
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  Speaker 8: Every think a minute of the day.
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  Speaker 4: Their beautiful twenty one year old daughter, once full of life,
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  Speaker 4: seemingly the innocent victim of a horrific mobile home fire.
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  Speaker 2: What did they tell you?
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  Speaker 10: They just said it to be in the fire and
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  Speaker 10: the founder deceased. He had about five something that morning,
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  Speaker 10: and the dog too, Yes, and Dante in the living room.
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  Speaker 4: Kelsey shared the little love nest with her boyfriend Alex Young,
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  Speaker 4: but he happened to be out of town, so Kelsey
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  Speaker 4: was home alone when flames erupted in the master bedroom.
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  Speaker 13: I knew Kelsey is so all that I don't knew
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  Speaker 13: what she would be going through and what she would
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  Speaker 13: have felt if she would have screamed.
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  Speaker 5: It was terrible.
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  Speaker 4: When rescuers arrived, the fire alarm is blaring, but the
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  Speaker 4: flames are so intense.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way to save Kelsey.
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  Speaker 7: I accept it in a weird way that if there
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  Speaker 7: was a fire, she'd probably fallen asleep and not known
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  Speaker 7: what happened.
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  Speaker 4: And that explanation made sense because Alex had previously complained
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  Speaker 4: about a faulty furnace. Still Investigator Doug McCarty says Carney.
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  Speaker 4: Police wanted to be sure there was no foul play.
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  Speaker 3: We went out and our investigator went out to the
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  Speaker 3: scene and started taking pictures and working his way through it.
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  Speaker 2: And right from the start McCarty smells trouble. Was the
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  Speaker 2: door locked.
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  Speaker 3: Now both the front door and the back door were unlocked,
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  Speaker 3: and war arrived.
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  Speaker 4: Inside the burned out trailer, investigators find Kelsey's body on
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  Speaker 4: the floor just outside the master bedroom.
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  Speaker 3: And she wasn't very badly burned.
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  Speaker 2: So Kelsey's body wasn't charred.
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  Speaker 3: No, she had some slight fire damage.
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  Speaker 4: So investigators assumed Kelsey died of smoke inhalation, that is
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  Speaker 4: until they get a closer look.
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  Speaker 2: Then sheer horror.
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  Speaker 4: So what did you determine after examining her body.
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  Speaker 3: She had bruising throughout her upper torso, her arms, her
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  Speaker 3: nose had been broken, her cheek lip had been hit,
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  Speaker 3: and then she had blunt forced trauma to the head.
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  Speaker 3: Then she had been manually strangled, and then a ligature
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  Speaker 3: had been used to a ligature. Yes, the assailant struck
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  Speaker 3: her and then strangled her with his hands or her hands,
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  Speaker 3: and then used a ligature to finish the palm sun.
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  Speaker 4: Cops now say Kelsey fight was murdered and the mobile
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  Speaker 4: home torched to cover it up.
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  Speaker 2: Was there an accelerant used.
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  Speaker 3: Not an exceller used? But here's our point of origin.
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  Speaker 3: You can see the charring and how it was on
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  Speaker 3: this far wall.
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  Speaker 2: But this isn't what killed Kelsey.
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  Speaker 3: The fire is not what killed No, Kelsey was dead
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  Speaker 3: before the fire was set.
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  Speaker 4: Was it even more horrible to learn that she had
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  Speaker 4: been murdered?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: It was. Who would do that to your daughter?
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  Speaker 1: I have no.
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  Speaker 4: Idea Officer McCarty says. They begin with the obvious person.
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  Speaker 4: Her boyfriend, Alex Young was the boyfriend.
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  Speaker 5: Ever a suspect.
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  Speaker 3: We always look at the person that they're living with. Commonly,
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  Speaker 3: that's the suspect. We knew within probably an hour that
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  Speaker 3: he was gone, and he was in Maneuvers in Louisiana,
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  Speaker 3: so we had ruled him out pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 4: Did your investigation uncover anyone who may have had it
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  Speaker 4: out for Kelsey?
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  Speaker 3: We just never found anybody that disliked Kelsey. She was
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  Speaker 3: liked by all of her friends, and even the exes
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  Speaker 3: liked her.
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  Speaker 4: Catching Kelsey's killer was proving to be more complicated than
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  Speaker 4: a typical homicide because of the fire damage.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of our evidence will say the wash to
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  Speaker 3: wear burnt up.
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  Speaker 4: So Carney cops go back to old fashioned police leg work,
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  Speaker 4: beginning with the obscure location of the mobile home. She
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  Speaker 4: lived in a trailer park that's tucked away in between
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  Speaker 4: two businesses, really hard to find unless you know where
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  Speaker 4: she lives. Cops also found something else curious, that unlocked
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  Speaker 4: front door. And what does that indicate anything.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure if that means that she knew that
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  Speaker 3: somebody was coming over or she just neglected to lock
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  Speaker 3: the door.
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  Speaker 4: But the biggest clue may surround her beloved bassett hound Dante.
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  Speaker 4: Neighbors never heard him bark that night.
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  Speaker 3: The dog was very possessive, He was very protective. He
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  Speaker 3: would bark at anybody that came up near the house,
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  Speaker 3: and he had he was a basset hound, so people
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  Speaker 3: knew when he was barking. And nobody heard him barking
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  Speaker 3: that night.
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  Speaker 4: That is odd.
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  Speaker 3: It seems odd to us.
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  Speaker 2: With that.
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  Speaker 4: Cops now wonder if Kelsey's killer was a friend of hers.
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  Speaker 3: Her boyfriend was gone. It's a very secluded area. She
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  Speaker 3: was very careful about who she let in the house.
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  Speaker 3: The dog didn't bark, so I think it's probably somebody
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  Speaker 3: that she knew.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think that Kelsey's murder was random or targeted?
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  Speaker 10: I leaned towards targeted because she was very attractive.
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  Speaker 3: She worked them all. A lot of people came through there.
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  Speaker 10: It's some weird person, perverted person could have targeted to her.
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  Speaker 2: But who. Finally police catch a much needed break.
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  Speaker 3: We had surveillance video from across the street that shows
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  Speaker 3: a car leaving the trailer corp right.
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  Speaker 4: There, headlights, So you're pretty sure that that person is.
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  Speaker 3: The We've never identified the car. We've never identified somebody
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  Speaker 3: leaving from there, so we think it probably was.
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  Speaker 2: Two different angles, both timestamped.
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  Speaker 4: Four thirty nine am, approximately ten minutes before the fire
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  Speaker 4: was reported.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're pretty sure it's a sedan, more likely it's
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  Speaker 3: dark in color.
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  Speaker 4: The problem the video is too far away to get
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  Speaker 4: a plate number or the make of the car.
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  Speaker 2: I could see where.
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  Speaker 4: This really helps police with the timeline, but it's very
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  Speaker 4: hard to make out that vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: Pops still need more, and they get it.
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  Speaker 4: The coroner finds strange DNA on Kelsey's body.
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  Speaker 2: Was she sexually assaulted?
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  Speaker 3: We think that maybe they tried to sexually assault her
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  Speaker 3: and she fought, she put up a fight, and that
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  Speaker 3: they weren't able to accomplish what they were there for.
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  Speaker 4: But what about the DNA? Could that lead cops to
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  Speaker 4: Kelsey's killer. Well, there was a problem there too. When
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  Speaker 4: firefighters used the high pressure hoses to knock down the flames,
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  Speaker 4: the force of the water blended Kelsey's DNA with her
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  Speaker 4: possible killers DNA, So Kelsey's DNA is mixed with someone else's.
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  Speaker 4: Investigator McCarty sent the samples to one of the most
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  Speaker 4: sophisticated crime labs in the country, hoping to find out who.
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  Speaker 2: Was in Kelsey's mobile home that terrible night.
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  Speaker 4: And you're trying to separate them scientifically to see if
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  Speaker 4: you can get clear DNA.
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  Speaker 3: So then we'd have an actual ability to match that
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  Speaker 3: DNA to our suspect.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, that could actually be the break in this case.
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  Speaker 5: It could.
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  Speaker 3: We're hopeful that it will be. We really want closure
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  Speaker 3: for the family.
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  Speaker 2: For now, it's a painful waiting game.
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  Speaker 8: I wake up every morning with the knowledge that my
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  Speaker 8: beautiful twenty one year old daughter was very brutally murdered.
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  Speaker 8: That's not gonna change.
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  Speaker 4: Until science can help solve Kelsey's murder mystery. Her family
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  Speaker 4: hope someone will forward because they know somewhere out there
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  Speaker 4: a killer is still on the loose.
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  Speaker 8: This case needs to be solved, not for Kelsey, but
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  Speaker 8: for any future potential victims of this individual, so that
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  Speaker 8: the next person doesn't go through the pain and the
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  Speaker 8: terror that that Mike Kelsey did.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry again, there's a thirty thousand dollars reward for any
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  Speaker 1: information leading to the capture and conviction of a suspect
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  Speaker 1: in Kelsey's death. If you know anything, you can submit
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  Speaker 1: a tip at crimewatch Daily dot com or call the
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo County Crime Stoppers. That number is one three oh
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  Speaker 1: eight two three seven thirty four to twenty four. Coming up,
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  Speaker 1: a six year old witnesses her grandmother savagely attacked and killed.
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  Speaker 5: It was just absolutely bertal.
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  Speaker 1: And she thing she knows who did it.
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  Speaker 5: She said it was uncle Clarence.
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  Speaker 1: Today how Clarence Elkins turned into a detective from behind
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  Speaker 1: bars to try and clear his name.
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  Speaker 6: I got it and secretly mailed it out. He got
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  Speaker 6: a ninety nine point nine percent match.
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  Speaker 1: That's coming up. We're back here in New York now
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  Speaker 1: with a convicted murderer and his covert mission to prove
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  Speaker 1: his innocence. It all starts with a brutal attack inside
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  Speaker 1: an Ohio home as a grandmother is watching her granddaughter.
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  Speaker 1: A grandmother is savagely slaughtered in her own house.
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  Speaker 14: It was a bloodbath.
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  Speaker 1: The killer raped her, slashed her throat, and beat her
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  Speaker 1: to a pault.
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  Speaker 5: It was just absolutely bertle.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: The woman's screams wake up her six year old granddaughter.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: The terrified little girl tells cops who did it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: She said it was uncle Clarence. She said it was
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: uncle Clarence.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Clarence Elkins, the girl's uncle. But Clarence told police.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: I didn't do it. I didn't do it.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: But a jury said he did, and Clarence was sent
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: to prison for life. How he would ultimately prove his
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: innocence is such an amazing story you'll think it's ripped
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: from an episode of Cson.
• 19:18
  Speaker 14: Forensic Science and Reality. It's deeply flawed.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: The beautiful rolling hills of Ohio an oasis of green
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: in the drabness of the rust belt. Like many of
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the good people here, Clarence Elkins made his living at
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: a steel plant.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: I was a hot and cold forging operator. I was
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: finally able to make a day shift. Then the inevitable happened.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: The inevitable, the cold blooded murder of Clarence's mother in law,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Judy Johnson.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: We had, I would say, an average relationship. You know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: any son in law and mother in law would have.
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: I didn't have anything against her in any way.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: The killer beat Judy so severely her nose, jaw, and
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: collarbone were fractured. Then the monster took Judy's six year
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: old granddaughter to her room and did the unthinkable.
• 20:20
  Speaker 14: The little girl ended up being attacked as well, raped, assaulted,
• 20:25
  Speaker 14: knocked unconscious, left for dead. Fortunately she survived.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: The next morning, the girl regained consciousness and left a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: chilling voicemail for a friend I. Still naked from the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: horrific assault, the little girl ran next door for help.
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: Unclothed, blood streaming from her forehead, knocked on the door
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: and told the neighbor that somebody had hurt her grandma
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: and her and the neighbor at that time told her
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: just wait, I'm gonna call your mother.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: But for some strange reason, the neighbor left the girl
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: on her doorstep for forty five minutes before taking her to.
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: Her mother, when a child appears on your front step
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: in that way, Why when you invite the child into
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: your home, Why when you wrap the child up in
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: a blanket. Why when you call the police when a
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: child has obviously been assaulted.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: The girl told the neighbor the killer looked like Clarence.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: That was enough for police to get an arrest warrant.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: I remember hearing somebody come the driveway real fast.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: A swat team swarms Clarence's house and immediately slaps the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: cuffs on his fifteen year old son. Clarence the second they.
• 21:56
  Speaker 12: Told him I was arrest for the murder of jud Johnson,
• 22:00
  Speaker 12: and I just said what.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: I didn't know what to think about it.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: It was almost like you're in a dream, but you
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: can't do nothing about it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: He never had time to process the fact that his
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: own grandmother was murdered.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: It was disbelief to me.
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: It didn't seem real.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: And the boy wasn't even the suspect. His brief arrest
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: just collateral damage in the search for who Comps thought
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: was the real killer. His father I said.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Well, what's going on? And they said, turn around, put
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: your hands up, and walk backwards slowly. And I'm like,
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: you got the wrong house here or something. And then
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: eventually they told me about a half an hour later
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: that I was a suspect in a murder of my
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: then mother in law, Judith Johnson. And I said, you
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: have the wrong person. There's nobody here ever it's done
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: anything like that, and they said, well, they had a
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: ways and it was the six year old girl.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: In the county jail. Clarence found support from one man
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: who believed in him, Pastor Tom Williams.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: When I first met Clarence, I said, I want you
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: to look me in my eyes.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: I want you to tell me did you do this?
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: And he looked at me and said, I did not
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: do this.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what's going on.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: I did not do this.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And from that moment on he had me. Defense attorney
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Larry Whitney says Clarence couldn't have been at the crime
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: scene because he was at a bar more than an
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: hour away.
• 23:34
  Speaker 11: Although we didn't have an alibi for that time, we
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: had a virtual alibi. We had evidence as to where
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: he was in such a way that he would have
• 23:43
  Speaker 11: had to flu at eighty miles an hour to get
• 23:46
  Speaker 11: to the scene of a crime and back.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Clarence stood trial for murder, attempted murder, and rape.
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: The motive was the difficulty that he had with his
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: mother in law personally.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: There was no physical evidence Tyan Claire to the crime scene,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: but the eyewitness evidence, the little girl's claim, and a trial,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: her story dramatically changed. Instead of saying the killer looked
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: like Clarence, she told the jury it was Clarence.
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: And my cross examination of her was that was one
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: of the discrepancies. Didn't you tell the neighbor that it
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: looked like uncle Clarence, and then later on you ended
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: up saying it was my uncle Clarence.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Jurors believed the little girl and convicted Clarence. The sentence
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: life in prison.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: I thought, well, you know pretty much my life is
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: over now.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: The moment he walked through the prison gates, Clarence knew
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: he had a target on his back.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: It's not a safe place. With the charges I was
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: charged with. Most inmates don't look on that too lightly.
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: I was always half to watch my back, lost faith
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: in the justice system and lost trust in about every.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: For years, Clarence rotted away in his prison cell. Then
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: a sensational new development gave him hope. Science was about
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: to turn this verdict upside down. His legal team used
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: new technology to test skin cell DNA left in the
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: little girl's panties.
• 25:17
  Speaker 14: We see DNA testing that can be done because that
• 25:19
  Speaker 14: gives you a clear answer, yes or no if the
• 25:21
  Speaker 14: person's ennisent or not.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: And the results proved that DNA didn't belong to Clarence,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: but to a mystery man.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: I realized that somebody was framing me. Somebody's set me up.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: For just two was framing him. Next, Clarence turns from
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: inmate into his own CSI investigator.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: I've seen he putting a cigarette out.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: How a tiny cigarette butt becomes Clarence's big break. He
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: looked like my uncle Clarence. That's what a six year
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: old victim told police after she and her grandmother were
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: violently attacked. That statement was enough for COMPS to arrest
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Clarence Elkins and even send him to prison for life.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: But Elkins has always maintained he's innocent, and now he
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: needed help to prove it. Prisons are filled with thousands
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: of men who claim they're innocent, and Clarence Elkins is
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: no different.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Everybody in prison, they say they're innocent.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: But Clarence is one inmate who really is innocent.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: I got arrested, falsely accused, and wrongly convicted.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: In Ohio jury sent Clarence to prison for life in
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the brutal murder of his mother in law, Judy Johnson,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and rape of his six year old niece. How would
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: he convince the system he didn't do it. Mark Ganzi
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: from the Ohio Innocence Project came to his rescue right away.
• 26:46
  Speaker 14: Caught my attention because it had all the earmarks that
• 26:49
  Speaker 14: were looking for. That was a very shaky eyewitness ida,
• 26:51
  Speaker 14: and more importantly, there was DNA evidence that could be tested.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: The eyewitness was Clarence's six year old niece. She told
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the court uncle Clarence did it. Then, in a stunning reversal,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: years later, she recanted her story.
• 27:07
  Speaker 15: I think it was two thousand and two when she
• 27:08
  Speaker 15: took it back when she said that she was afraid
• 27:10
  Speaker 15: to go against what people were encouraging her to testify to.
• 27:15
  Speaker 15: Clarence tried to get an appeal on that basis.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: He was denied, so.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: His team hired a private investigator to identify people in
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood who might be the real killer, and.
• 27:27
  Speaker 14: One of them the identified with Earl Man.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Earl Man a convicted sex offender. Remember when Clarence's niece
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: went next door for help after the attack, that was
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Man's house and his girlfriend had told the child to
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: wait outside while Man was inside. The girl never saw him.
• 27:45
  Speaker 16: PETE want to invite the little girl into the house
• 27:47
  Speaker 16: to get another look at ear Man.
• 27:50
  Speaker 14: He looked like Clarence Elkins, and he had just been
• 27:53
  Speaker 14: released from prison a few days before the murder and
• 27:55
  Speaker 14: rapes in this case and was living next door. Who
• 28:00
  Speaker 14: happens to look like Clarence Elkins.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Look at them side by side. They both have thick eyebrows.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And you'll be stunned at what Man said to cops
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: after an unrelated arrest.
• 28:09
  Speaker 14: Pearl Man had been picked up for a violent crime
• 28:12
  Speaker 14: and on his way to the police station, said to
• 28:14
  Speaker 14: the officer who arrested him, why aren't you arresting me
• 28:17
  Speaker 14: for the murder of Judy Johnson.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: And in an unbelievable turn of events, Man fell right
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: into Clarence's hands. He was sentenced to the same prison.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: At first, I didn't want to point the finger and
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: blame somebody without some kind of evidence, so I contemplated
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: on possibly maybe getting some kind of DNA from this guy, and.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: He found it in of all places of prison, ashtray.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: After years of praying and hoping, Clarence finally had the
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: key that would unlock his cell door.
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: I seen him putting a cigarette butt out, and I
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: retrieved the cigarette butt out of the ashtray makeshift ash tree,
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: and put it in a bible concordinance I have.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Clarence took the Bible back to his cell, placed the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: butt in a baggy and sent it to his lawyer.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: Secretly mailed it out, got it to the lab, and
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: I got a call about a month or so later,
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: got a ninety nine point nine percent match.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: But Clarence needed some friends in high places to get
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the DNA results to the court. He found a key
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: li in Jim Caneppa, who then worked for the Ohio
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Attorney General.
• 29:30
  Speaker 16: So victim number one victim number two forensic evidence from
• 29:36
  Speaker 16: the rapes match each other and exclude Clarence.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: And Clarence had another supporter at the eg's office who
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: would become more than just a friend, a legal secretary
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: named Mollie. She eventually became missus Clarence Elkins.
• 29:55
  Speaker 17: I even thought, Wow, is he really innocent? And then
• 29:58
  Speaker 17: I was quite surprised that he was actually still in
• 30:00
  Speaker 17: prison and they had evidence overwhelming that he shouldn't have
• 30:05
  Speaker 17: been there.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Now the full power of the office of the Attorney
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: General was behind Clarence's bid for freedom, and in a
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: dramatic turn of events, Clarence was completely exonerated. He walked
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: out of prison a freeman.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I'm still pinching myself.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: The real killer turned out to be that neighbor next door,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: earl Man. He pleaded guilty to the crimes Clarence was
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: accused of and sentenced to life in prison.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: To be part of proving your own innocence from behind
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: bars and concrete walls and Barbara, that's pretty amazing stuff.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I think today Clarence and his sons are making up
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: for lost time.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: When I see him walk out the doors, it's kind
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: of when it set in, kind of went in chalk
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: all over again.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: They're bonding over but it didn't have billiards and posing
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: for pictures at family gatherings. But what about the eight
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: hundred pound gorilla in the room. The six year old
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: niece who accused her uncle Clarence.
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: I still don't hold any ill willed fillings towards her.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: She's just an amazing, strong person to survive.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: And so is Clarence, cherishing the freedom of riding his
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: motorcycle whenever he wants. He and Molly established a scholarship
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: fund at the University of Cincinnati Law School that's where
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the Ohio Innocence Project is based. He says he doesn't
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: want another innocent person to be behind the eight ball.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't wish that kind of nightmare on anyone my
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: worst enemy. It's a living hell, so to speak.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: As for per old Man, he will never see the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: outside of a prison again. On top of the murder
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: charges to which he pleaded guilty in this case, he's
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: also serving a seven year sentence for three unrelated sexual assaults,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: attacks that may have never happened had the right man
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: been behind bars in the first place. Up next, a
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: young woman murdered after a massive Halloween party in the Woods.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Police finally unmasked the monster they say killed Chelsea Brook.
• 32:28
  Speaker 12: During the interview, detective to obtained details that only the
• 32:32
  Speaker 12: killer would have known, as this information had never been
• 32:35
  Speaker 12: disseminated to the public.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Coming on, it was a horror story that started out
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: of all places, a Halloween party. A young woman goes
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: missing for months before police would eventually find her body. Today,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: we've got a Crime Launch daily update from the courtroom
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: as the alleged killer lays out his unbelievable defense and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: he finally learns his fate is pat Lolama.
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: He swore it was just an accident.
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: Do you intend to cause her death?
• 33:06
  Speaker 11: No?
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: I did not.
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: He insisted things just got out of hand.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: That didn't mean for.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Her to die, didn't mean to stand like this.
• 33:16
  Speaker 9: But cops didn't believe Daniel Clay, and neither did a
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: Michigan jury finding the twenty eight year old career criminal
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: guilty of the violent and tortuous murder of young Chelsea Broock.
• 33:29
  Speaker 9: The payback for Clay's heinous deed a mandatory sentence of
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: life behind bars.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Our Detroit affiliate w x y.
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: Z reporting Chelsea Brook's tragic story begins at a raucous
• 33:42
  Speaker 9: Halloween bash on this sprawling Monroe County farm, a.
• 33:45
  Speaker 12: Lot of alcohol and drug If she used that scene.
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: Chelsea say friends was more the quiet, demid type, not
• 33:53
  Speaker 9: open to strangers. Didn't even drive The twenty two year
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: old blonde with an infectious smile, lived at home with
• 33:59
  Speaker 9: her parents. Still, Chelsea was eager to go to the party.
• 34:02
  Speaker 9: She hopped a ride with a friend and showed up
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: at the huge affair donning her own homemade costume depicting
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: the villainous character poison Ivy of Batman Fame, black pants,
• 34:14
  Speaker 9: leaf top, dark wig. Friend Becky Aguilar Brinson tells our
• 34:19
  Speaker 9: affiliate partner w XYZ Chelsea was there and then she wasn't.
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: I told her, I said, stay right here, I'll be
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: right back.
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: This picture, taken at one thirty in the morning, according
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: to another friend, shows Chelsea still wearing the costume and
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: still at the party. But Chelsea would never make it home.
• 34:41
  Speaker 9: Law enforcement in southeast Michigan launched an investigation and a
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: call to action.
• 34:47
  Speaker 16: It's never too late.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: We just want our daughter back.
• 34:50
  Speaker 9: Someone at the party reported they saw Chelsea walking toward
• 34:54
  Speaker 9: the parking area at three am with a man wearing
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: dark glasses and a black hooded sweatshirt. This composite sketch
• 35:01
  Speaker 9: is immediately drawn up and released. Months past without a suspect,
• 35:06
  Speaker 9: without justice for Chelsea, our twenty third birthday had come
• 35:10
  Speaker 9: and gone. Her sister's wedding now part of the family album.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: It would have been the perfect wedding if all my
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: children had been there.
• 35:20
  Speaker 9: Finally, a piece of Chelsea's poison ivy costume is found
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: on an abandoned lot. Three weeks later, construction workers excavating
• 35:29
  Speaker 9: a secluded property find Chelsea's remains.
• 35:33
  Speaker 12: Chelsea's decomposed body was located in a wooded area on
• 35:37
  Speaker 12: Briar Hill Road in Ash Township.
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: According to reports, Chelsea's body was nude and partially decomposed,
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: covered in logs and limbs. Cops link DNA found on
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: Chelsea's costume to Daniel Clay when they interview him on
• 35:53
  Speaker 9: an unrelated theft charge. He talked himself right into a
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: murder wrap.
• 35:57
  Speaker 12: During the interview, detectives obtain the tills that only the
• 36:01
  Speaker 12: killer would have known, as this information had never been
• 36:05
  Speaker 12: disseminated to the public.
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: Clay told police Chelsea died accidentally during rough sex in
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: the back of his car. But in this police interrogation
• 36:15
  Speaker 9: take Clay just can't explain how Chelsea's jaw.
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: Had been broken.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I don't remember eating.
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: The medical examiner ruled Chelsea's death the result of blunt
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: force trauma to the head far from an accident. Daniel Clay,
• 36:36
  Speaker 9: the deadbeat dad of two young sons, had a history
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: of brushes with the law, but a social media post
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: on Daniel's page one month after Chelsea's murder seems to
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: indicate a desire to step up the criminal game. I
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: already know that I'm going to hell at this point.
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: It's really go big or go home. Definitely not home,
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: and who knows about hell. What we do know is
• 37:03
  Speaker 9: Daniel Clay will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Everything to say to Chelsea's family, I'm.
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: Sorry, empty words for a family whose hearts are filled
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: with everlasting pain.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Up next, a young college student is found dead in
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: the waters of this picturesque Tennessee lake. It's officially ruled
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: in accidental drowning, but could it be murdered?
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: I believe that there was foul play.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Our viewer's way in on the controversial story of Lauren
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: ag Next, among all this beauty and ugly incidental, a
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: beautiful twenty one year old is found dead floating in
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: a Tennessee lake. Police say it was a tragic accident,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: her mother and others believe it was something else.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Do you think she drowned.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: I know she didn't drown.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Today our view were sound off on the controversial case.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: What happened on this cliff. It all starts when Lauren
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: ag sets off on a camping trip with three friends
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: to a popular wakeboarding event.
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: But Lauren definitely was I mean alcohol within her system.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: You could tell. I mean she was having a good.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Time after a day filled with partying. At around two
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: thirty am, the four canoe in the dark to a
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: remote campsite. The location ninety feet above the lake on
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: one side and a forty five foot drop down the other.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: And the most terrifying tart the place where you sleep.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Once you're up there is a hammock tied between two
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: trees dangling right out over the water.
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: And I remember saying that to myself, if this rope breaks,
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: I'm gone.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: In the early morning hours, the other threes say they
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: all go to sleep, but when the sun comes up,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Lauren is gone.
• 38:49
  Speaker 9: They could have said, hey, our friend is missing, can
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: you help us look for her.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: They didn't do any of the things that normal friends
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: would do.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Instead, the other girl in the group reportedly tells authorities.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: She must have went back to the bar.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Sadly, that wasn't the case. A fishermen would find her
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: body a few hours later.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: They've ruled it what.
• 39:12
  Speaker 17: Accidental, but actually the incident reports this drowning.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Did you believe that was possible?
• 39:19
  Speaker 17: You believe law enforcement, you do, But my good feeling
• 39:24
  Speaker 17: was telling me different.