1 00:00:14,206 --> 00:00:15,620 THIS IS A STORY 2 00:00:15,620 --> 00:00:18,448 FROM A MIDWESTERN AMERICAN TOWN 3 00:00:18,448 --> 00:00:20,862 OF FIVE HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS 4 00:00:20,862 --> 00:00:23,172 WITH A COMMON LOVE CAUGHT ON TAPE. 5 00:00:23,172 --> 00:00:24,655 MUSIC WAS EVERYTHING FOR ME IN HIGH SCHOOL, 6 00:00:24,655 --> 00:00:26,206 EVERYTHING ELSE WAS JUST KIND OF A BLUR. 7 00:00:26,206 --> 00:00:27,586 BUT AN ATTACK IN THE WOODS... 8 00:00:27,586 --> 00:00:30,724 IN A SPLIT SECOND, IT WENT INTO A FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE. 9 00:00:30,724 --> 00:00:33,275 ...REVEALS A HORROR LURKING IN THEIR MIDST. 10 00:00:33,275 --> 00:00:36,620 I THINK IT'S SCARY THAT PEOPLE LIKE THIS ARE OUT THERE, 11 00:00:36,620 --> 00:00:38,896 AND YOU DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW WHO THEY ARE. 12 00:00:42,103 --> 00:00:45,103 Captions by VITAC-- www.vitac.com 13 00:00:45,103 --> 00:00:48,068 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 14 00:01:00,931 --> 00:01:04,517 ♪ OH, SHENANDOAH ♪ 15 00:01:04,517 --> 00:01:06,172 ♪ SINCE LAST I'VE SEEN YOU ♪ 16 00:01:06,172 --> 00:01:09,655 ♪ SHENANDOAH ♪ 17 00:01:09,655 --> 00:01:15,827 ♪ AWAY, YOU ROLLING RIVER ♪ 18 00:01:15,827 --> 00:01:19,137 ♪ RIVER ♪ 19 00:01:19,137 --> 00:01:24,137 ♪ TIS SEVEN YEARS SINCE LAST I'VE SEEN YOU ♪ 20 00:01:24,137 --> 00:01:28,379 ♪ SHENANDOAH, ROLLING RIVER ♪ 21 00:01:28,379 --> 00:01:30,827 ♪ AWAY ♪ 22 00:01:30,827 --> 00:01:33,517 HARTFORD, WISCONSIN, 2011, 23 00:01:33,517 --> 00:01:34,655 SPRING CONCERT 24 00:01:34,655 --> 00:01:37,379 FOR THE HARTFORD UNION HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR. 25 00:01:37,379 --> 00:01:41,793 ♪ 'CROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI ♪ 26 00:01:41,793 --> 00:01:44,689 IN HIGH SCHOOL, I WAS ALL ABOUT CHOIR. 27 00:01:44,689 --> 00:01:47,827 WE HAD A-- A FINAL CONCERT EVERY YEAR, 28 00:01:47,827 --> 00:01:51,068 AND WE WOULD PUT TOGETHER A MEDLEY OF DIFFERENT SONGS. 29 00:01:51,068 --> 00:01:52,896 IT WAS JUST AMAZING. 30 00:01:52,896 --> 00:01:55,413 WE WOULD JUST FOCUS SO MUCH ENERGY. 31 00:01:55,413 --> 00:01:59,310 ♪ SHENANDOAH, OH, OH ♪ 32 00:01:59,310 --> 00:02:02,965 ONLY THE MOST TALENTED KIDS GET INTO CONCERT CHOIR. 33 00:02:02,965 --> 00:02:07,758 ♪ OH, SHENANDOAH ♪ 34 00:02:07,758 --> 00:02:09,862 I DID EVERYTHING IN MY POWER 35 00:02:09,862 --> 00:02:12,310 TO BE IN THE TOP CHOIR EVERY YEAR 36 00:02:12,310 --> 00:02:13,965 THAT IT WAS AVAILABLE TO ME. 37 00:02:16,965 --> 00:02:19,586 THIS IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THEIR YEAR. 38 00:02:22,137 --> 00:02:25,724 AND THE AUDIENCE IS FILLED WITH PROUD PARENTS. 39 00:02:28,034 --> 00:02:29,379 MUSIC WAS EVERYTHING FOR ME IN HIGH SCHOOL. 40 00:02:29,379 --> 00:02:31,034 EVERYTHING ELSE WAS JUST KIND OF A BLUR. 41 00:02:31,034 --> 00:02:33,586 ♪ MMM, MMM, MMM, MMM, MMM ♪ 42 00:02:33,586 --> 00:02:37,655 BUT THESE ANGELIC VOICES HARBOR A DARK SECRET. 43 00:02:39,517 --> 00:02:43,965 FIVE FRIENDS BROUGHT TOGETHER BY A COMMON LOVE OF MUSIC. 44 00:02:43,965 --> 00:02:46,344 BUT IN JUST TWO YEARS, 45 00:02:46,344 --> 00:02:50,758 ONE OF THESE KIDS WILL TURN OUT TO BE A KILLER, 46 00:02:50,758 --> 00:02:53,862 A KILLER CAUGHT ON CAMERA, 47 00:02:53,862 --> 00:02:58,482 FOOTAGE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE IN PUBLIC 48 00:02:58,482 --> 00:03:00,310 UNTIL NOW. 49 00:03:03,103 --> 00:03:05,275 LIKE MORIAH, JESSIE BLODGETT 50 00:03:05,275 --> 00:03:07,413 IS A MEMBER OF THE CONCERT CHOIR. 51 00:03:09,896 --> 00:03:12,482 SHE'S ALSO A TALENTED SONGWRITER. 52 00:03:18,137 --> 00:03:27,137 ♪ WITH THE LOVE ♪ 53 00:03:31,793 --> 00:03:34,620 I MET JESSIE SINGING. 54 00:03:36,896 --> 00:03:39,448 ONE OF THE FIRST TIMES THAT I MET HER, 55 00:03:39,448 --> 00:03:41,413 WE WERE WALKING THROUGH THE HALLWAY 56 00:03:41,413 --> 00:03:42,655 OF ALL THE DIFFERENT PRACTICE ROOMS 57 00:03:42,655 --> 00:03:45,379 IN OUR HIGH SCHOOL, AND WE HEARD HER SINGING. 58 00:03:45,379 --> 00:03:47,586 WE HEARD YOU OUTSIDE, YOU WERE INCREDIBLE. 59 00:03:47,586 --> 00:03:50,000 SHE HAD ALL THIS TALENT THAT I COULD-- 60 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,620 AS FAR AS I WAS CONCERNED, 61 00:03:51,620 --> 00:03:54,379 I COULD NEVER EVEN DREAM OF HAVING THAT MUCH TALENT. 62 00:03:54,379 --> 00:03:56,655 UH, MORIAH. - UH, JESSIE, HI. 63 00:03:56,655 --> 00:03:58,068 HI. 64 00:03:58,068 --> 00:04:01,517 JESSIE, WHEN SHE WAS INTERESTED IN SOMETHING, 65 00:04:01,517 --> 00:04:03,827 SHE WOULD PUT 110% INTO IT. 66 00:04:03,827 --> 00:04:06,862 JESSIE ALWAYS HAS TO HAVE A CAUSE. 67 00:04:06,862 --> 00:04:08,551 NO, I DON'T. 68 00:04:08,551 --> 00:04:10,689 - IS IT DAN? - NO, IT'S... 69 00:04:10,689 --> 00:04:12,655 - HI. - HELLO, DAN. 70 00:04:12,655 --> 00:04:13,827 - SEE? - OOH, WHAT DELIGHTS... 71 00:04:13,827 --> 00:04:15,896 DAN WAS A VERY SIMILAR PERSONALITY TO THAT. 72 00:04:15,896 --> 00:04:17,448 HE LOVED TO DEBATE, WHICH IS, I THINK, 73 00:04:17,448 --> 00:04:20,000 WHY THEY WERE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS 74 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,275 BECAUSE WHEN THEY HUNG OUT, 75 00:04:21,275 --> 00:04:23,379 IT WAS LIKE DEBATE CENTRAL. 76 00:04:23,379 --> 00:04:24,482 STOP IT. 77 00:04:24,482 --> 00:04:25,689 - I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING. - STOP IT. 78 00:04:25,689 --> 00:04:28,275 DAN AND JESSIE HAD A LOT IN COMMON. 79 00:04:28,275 --> 00:04:30,241 HE WAS VERY SIMILAR TO JESSIE 80 00:04:30,241 --> 00:04:33,241 IN THAT HE LOVED MUSIC, AND HE LOVED ACTING. 81 00:04:33,241 --> 00:04:35,517 ♪ I'M TOO LATE TO STOP ♪ 82 00:04:35,517 --> 00:04:39,931 ♪ AFRAID TO LOVE 'CAUSE SOMEONE LOVES THE DRAWS ♪ 83 00:04:39,931 --> 00:04:43,137 LIKE JESSIE, DAN DREAMS OF A MUSICAL CAREER 84 00:04:43,137 --> 00:04:44,862 ♪ YOU WERE MY LIFE ♪ 85 00:04:44,862 --> 00:04:46,655 ♪ YOU WERE MY ♪ 86 00:04:46,655 --> 00:04:52,000 ♪ THE WORLD ♪ 87 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,793 ♪ HOW WE CAN DISREGARD ♪ 88 00:04:55,793 --> 00:04:57,517 DAN AND JESSIE, 89 00:04:57,517 --> 00:04:59,241 WHEN THEY GOT TOGETHER, THEY WORKED ON MUSIC. 90 00:04:59,241 --> 00:05:01,965 THEY WERE ABLE TO RECORD AND PUT THEIR IDEAS TOGETHER. 91 00:05:09,344 --> 00:05:12,655 DAN IS ALSO IN A BAND... 92 00:05:12,655 --> 00:05:14,172 THE ANGRY PILLOWS. 93 00:05:21,448 --> 00:05:24,448 DAN, HE'S THE LEAD MAN. 94 00:05:24,448 --> 00:05:26,931 HE PLAYED LEAD GUITAR. HE SANG. 95 00:05:26,931 --> 00:05:28,482 ♪ HERE THEY COME ♪ 96 00:05:28,482 --> 00:05:30,482 ♪ OH, HERE THEY COME ♪ 97 00:05:30,482 --> 00:05:34,310 ♪ DOESN'T MATTER, THOUGH ♪ 98 00:05:34,310 --> 00:05:37,034 WE ACTUALLY WROTE A LOT OF OUR OWN MUSIC. 99 00:05:37,034 --> 00:05:38,827 DAN WROTE A LOT OF IT. 100 00:05:51,241 --> 00:05:56,068 DAN WAS, UH, ALWAYS REALLY ENTERTAINING, 101 00:05:56,068 --> 00:05:57,068 I'D SAY. 102 00:05:57,068 --> 00:05:58,862 HE'S-- HE'S A GREAT CHARACTER. 103 00:05:58,862 --> 00:06:02,793 I ALWAYS KIND OF, UH, GRAVITATED TOWARDS HIM. 104 00:06:02,793 --> 00:06:04,068 MAN. 105 00:06:04,068 --> 00:06:06,896 GO AND-- YOU GO YOURSELF. 106 00:06:08,551 --> 00:06:11,931 ANGRY PILLOWS! 107 00:06:11,931 --> 00:06:14,586 WAH! 108 00:06:14,586 --> 00:06:15,896 GET A NICE ONE. 109 00:06:15,896 --> 00:06:17,068 - THAT A NICE ONE? - YEAH. 110 00:06:17,068 --> 00:06:18,517 - A NICE ONE. - YEAH. 111 00:06:18,517 --> 00:06:22,068 AS WELL AS HIS BAND, DAN HAS ANOTHER GREAT LOVE. 112 00:06:22,068 --> 00:06:24,896 HER NAME IS ALLISON. 113 00:06:24,896 --> 00:06:28,344 ALLISON WAS A SOPRANO IN THE CHOIR. 114 00:06:28,344 --> 00:06:29,448 ZOOMING? NO. 115 00:06:29,448 --> 00:06:30,724 - HELLO. - HEY. 116 00:06:30,724 --> 00:06:32,724 - HEY. YOU ALL RIGHT? - YES. 117 00:06:32,724 --> 00:06:35,758 ONCE HE AND ALLISON STARTED DATING, IT WAS THEM. 118 00:06:35,758 --> 00:06:37,068 THEY WERE ALWAYS TOGETHER. 119 00:06:37,068 --> 00:06:39,413 THEY ALWAYS WERE PRETTY MUCH GLUED TO EACH OTHER. 120 00:06:39,413 --> 00:06:41,862 BY MYSELF 'CAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS WITH DAN. 121 00:06:41,862 --> 00:06:43,137 OKAY, I'M NOT ALWAYS WITH HIM. 122 00:06:43,137 --> 00:06:46,137 ALLISON WAS ALWAYS VERY BUBBLY, VERY BRIGHT. 123 00:06:46,137 --> 00:06:48,206 SHE WAS A VERY FUN PERSON. 124 00:06:48,206 --> 00:06:53,379 UH, SHE WAS ALWAYS REALLY HAPPY. 125 00:06:53,379 --> 00:06:56,206 ANOTHER HARTFORD UNION HIGH SCHOOL MUSICIAN 126 00:06:56,206 --> 00:06:59,758 IS JESSIE'S FRIEND IAN NYTES. 127 00:06:59,758 --> 00:07:03,758 JESSIE WAS LIKE MY BEST, UH, FEMALE FRIEND 128 00:07:03,758 --> 00:07:06,000 THROUGHOUT, UH, HIGH SCHOOL. 129 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,965 THAT FAIRY-TALE THING LIKE BEFORE, WHICH I LIKED. 130 00:07:09,965 --> 00:07:11,448 WE DID LIKE MUSIC TOGETHER. 131 00:07:11,448 --> 00:07:13,827 WE LIKE TO-- I LIKED TO WRITE, AND SHE LIKED TO SING. 132 00:07:13,827 --> 00:07:16,965 SO WE KIND OF MADE, LIKE, A-- A GOOD PAIR. 133 00:07:16,965 --> 00:07:19,000 I REFERRED TO HER AS MY MUSE. 134 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,896 WE, UH-- WE HUNG OUT AT COFFEE SHOPS 135 00:07:23,896 --> 00:07:25,551 AND JUST REALLY TALKED. 136 00:07:25,551 --> 00:07:26,724 LIKE, PLAYING. 137 00:07:26,724 --> 00:07:28,068 I JUST THOUGHT IT WOULD BE, LIKE, WE COULD SET UP, 138 00:07:28,068 --> 00:07:29,241 LIKE, A MINI STAGE, LIKE, MAYBE IN... 139 00:07:29,241 --> 00:07:30,689 I MEAN, I'M SURE WE HAVE ALL THAT. 140 00:07:30,689 --> 00:07:33,310 - HEY, FREAK. - HEY. 141 00:07:33,310 --> 00:07:35,758 HEY, DANIEL. HOW ARE YOU? 142 00:07:35,758 --> 00:07:37,379 UH, GOOD. HOW ARE YOU? 143 00:07:37,379 --> 00:07:39,827 DAN WAS, LIKE, I GUESS HE COULD KIND OF GIVE ACROSS, 144 00:07:39,827 --> 00:07:41,965 LIKE, A VIBE OF BEING, YOU KNOW, 145 00:07:41,965 --> 00:07:43,206 THINKING HIMSELF AS SUPERIOR. 146 00:07:45,413 --> 00:07:47,586 HE WAS REALLY POPULAR AND WELL LIKED, 147 00:07:47,586 --> 00:07:51,137 BUT I FEEL LIKE HE MIGHT HAVE PUT HIMSELF ON A PEDESTAL. 148 00:07:59,931 --> 00:08:02,724 IT'S THE SUMMER OF 2012 149 00:08:02,724 --> 00:08:06,034 AND GRADUATION DAY FOR HARTFORD UNION HIGH. 150 00:08:08,620 --> 00:08:12,034 AS USUAL, THE SCHOOL CHOIR IS AT THE HEART OF IT ALL. 151 00:08:12,034 --> 00:08:17,034 ♪ MAY THE ROAD RISE TO MEET YOU ♪ 152 00:08:17,034 --> 00:08:21,482 AND BEST FRIENDS DAN AND JESSIE SING BY SIDE BY SIDE. 153 00:08:21,482 --> 00:08:24,379 ♪ UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN ♪ 154 00:08:24,379 --> 00:08:28,034 ♪ MAY GOD HOLD YOU ♪ 155 00:08:28,034 --> 00:08:31,862 ♪ IN THE PALM ♪ 156 00:08:31,862 --> 00:08:36,827 ♪ OF HIS HAND ♪ 157 00:08:38,724 --> 00:08:43,137 AFTER GRADUATION, THE FRIENDS GO THEIR SEPARATE WAYS. 158 00:08:43,137 --> 00:08:47,275 DAN HEADS OFF TO UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT 159 00:08:47,275 --> 00:08:48,344 WITH ALLISON. 160 00:08:48,344 --> 00:08:50,655 JESSIE MARITA BLODGETT. 161 00:08:50,655 --> 00:08:52,620 - WHOO! - WHOO-HOO! 162 00:08:52,620 --> 00:08:54,068 AND JESSIE AUDITIONS FOR A MUSIC COURSE 163 00:08:54,068 --> 00:08:57,068 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE. 164 00:08:57,068 --> 00:08:58,758 SO YOU WANT TO DO YOUR NAME 165 00:08:58,758 --> 00:09:00,379 AND INTRODUCE YOUR PIECES. - OKAY. 166 00:09:00,379 --> 00:09:02,172 WELL, MY NAME IS JESSIE BLODGETT. 167 00:09:02,172 --> 00:09:04,965 SHE MAKES HER FATHER PROUD. 168 00:09:04,965 --> 00:09:06,724 YOU CAN JUST SEE HOW PLEASED SHE IS 169 00:09:06,724 --> 00:09:09,448 BUT HOW HUMBLE SHE IS WITH HERSELF 170 00:09:09,448 --> 00:09:12,482 AND HOW CONFIDENT SHE IS AND HOW MUCH SHE LOVES SINGING. 171 00:09:20,551 --> 00:09:23,275 SHE HAS A BEAUTIFUL VOICE, AND SHE JUST KILLS IT. 172 00:09:41,931 --> 00:09:45,586 JESSIE'S DAD ISN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO'S IMPRESSED. 173 00:09:45,586 --> 00:09:49,655 LOVELY, LOVELY. SO NICE. 174 00:09:49,655 --> 00:09:51,724 HER AUDITION IS A SUCCESS. 175 00:09:51,724 --> 00:09:53,379 SO THOSE TWO PLATES TO TABLE TWO. 176 00:09:53,379 --> 00:09:54,689 - TABLE TWO, YEAH. - TABLE TWO. 177 00:09:54,689 --> 00:09:56,103 - FANTASTIC. - OKAY. 178 00:09:56,103 --> 00:09:58,862 WHILST AT COLLEGE, JESSIE WORKS AS A WAITRESS. 179 00:10:00,620 --> 00:10:02,620 AND HALFWAY THROUGH FRESHMAN YEAR, 180 00:10:02,620 --> 00:10:06,275 SHE GETS A BIG SURPRISE. 181 00:10:06,275 --> 00:10:08,517 SHE CAME HOME ONE DAY, AND SHE SAID, "DAN'S HOME." 182 00:10:08,517 --> 00:10:10,137 SHUT UP! OH, MY GOD! 183 00:10:10,137 --> 00:10:13,379 WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? 184 00:10:13,379 --> 00:10:15,344 I'M LIKE, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN DAN'S HOME?" 185 00:10:15,344 --> 00:10:16,862 "WELL, HE DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE." 186 00:10:16,862 --> 00:10:19,241 I'M LIKE, "DAN DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE? 187 00:10:19,241 --> 00:10:21,103 HE'S A STRAIGHT-A-- HE'S THE SMARTEST KID IN SCHOOL. 188 00:10:21,103 --> 00:10:23,206 WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE?" 189 00:10:23,206 --> 00:10:24,655 IT'S FINE. IT'S TOTALLY FINE. 190 00:10:24,655 --> 00:10:26,344 IT-- IT WASN'T FOR ME. 191 00:10:26,344 --> 00:10:27,724 WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? YOU JUST GONNA BUM AROUND? 192 00:10:27,724 --> 00:10:29,275 I'VE GOT A JOB. I'VE GOT A JOB. 193 00:10:29,275 --> 00:10:31,551 - YOU'VE GOT A JOB? - I'VE GOT A JOB IN A FACTORY. 194 00:10:31,551 --> 00:10:33,689 HE DECIDED TO COME HOME TO HARTFORD, 195 00:10:33,689 --> 00:10:35,620 GO BACK TO LIVING WITH HIS PARENTS 196 00:10:35,620 --> 00:10:38,655 AND TRY TO REASSESS HIS LIFE AND FIGURE OUT WHAT HE-- 197 00:10:38,655 --> 00:10:41,620 WHAT HE REALLY WANTED TO DO WITH IT. 198 00:10:41,620 --> 00:10:44,344 BUT 12 MILES AWAY FROM HARTFORD, 199 00:10:44,344 --> 00:10:49,896 EVENTS ARE UNFOLDING THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. 200 00:10:49,896 --> 00:10:52,689 REMY, WAIT. 201 00:10:52,689 --> 00:10:54,724 JULY 12, 2013, 202 00:10:54,724 --> 00:10:57,689 MELISSA RICHARDS, A YOUNG, ALMOST 21-YEAR-OLD WOMAN 203 00:10:57,689 --> 00:10:59,862 DECIDES TO GO TO RICHFIELD PARK 204 00:10:59,862 --> 00:11:02,103 TO WALK HER DOG. 205 00:11:02,103 --> 00:11:06,689 SHE COULD NEVER HAVE FORESEEN THAT ANYTHING BAD WOULD HAPPEN. 206 00:11:06,689 --> 00:11:07,862 SHE'S NOT A PART 207 00:11:07,862 --> 00:11:10,000 OF THE HARTFORD HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS GROUP, 208 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,517 BUT HER STORY IS ABOUT TO BECOME PART OF THEIR STORY. 209 00:11:26,793 --> 00:11:27,896 CLAUSING. 210 00:11:27,896 --> 00:11:29,275 IT'S JULY 12th, 211 00:11:29,275 --> 00:11:31,862 AND WASHINGTON COUNTY, WISCONSIN'S, SHERIFF'S OFFICE 212 00:11:31,862 --> 00:11:33,931 GET AN UNUSUAL PHONE CALL. 213 00:11:33,931 --> 00:11:36,413 WE HAD A CALL OF A FEMALE... 214 00:11:36,413 --> 00:11:37,689 WHEN WAS THIS? 215 00:11:37,689 --> 00:11:42,448 ...WHO WAS ATTACKED IN A-- A-- A PARK IN RICHFIELD 216 00:11:42,448 --> 00:11:44,724 BY SOMEONE WITH A KNIFE. 217 00:11:44,724 --> 00:11:46,758 AND WHAT WAS REPORTED WAS A STRANGER ATTACK, 218 00:11:46,758 --> 00:11:48,758 WHICH ARE VERY FEW AND FAR BETWEEN 219 00:11:48,758 --> 00:11:52,517 FOR OUR JURISDICTION LOCATION. 220 00:11:52,517 --> 00:11:56,172 Woman over P.A.: PAGING DR. STATEMAN, DR. STATEMAN PLEASE. 221 00:11:56,172 --> 00:11:59,827 OBVIOUSLY, MELISSA WAS STILL SCARED, IN SHOCK. 222 00:11:59,827 --> 00:12:02,896 THE SECOND NIGHT I STARTED TALKING TO HER, 223 00:12:02,896 --> 00:12:05,724 I KNEW THAT THIS WAS REAL, AND THIS WAS VALID, 224 00:12:05,724 --> 00:12:08,655 AND THAT THIS WAS SERIOUS. 225 00:12:08,655 --> 00:12:12,379 I WENT TO-- I WENT TO THE PARK TO WALK MY DOG. 226 00:12:15,137 --> 00:12:17,310 SHE WAS GOING BACK TO THE CAR 227 00:12:17,310 --> 00:12:19,724 TO GET HER DOG A DRINK OF WATER. 228 00:12:19,724 --> 00:12:21,724 UM, SHE NOTICED HIM OUT OF THE CORNER OF HIS EYE, 229 00:12:21,724 --> 00:12:23,034 SITTING IN HIS VAN. 230 00:12:23,034 --> 00:12:25,965 AND THEN, UH, SHE HEARD SOMETHING. 231 00:12:25,965 --> 00:12:27,620 SHE SAID SHE WAS WALKING TOWARDS HER CAR, 232 00:12:27,620 --> 00:12:30,241 AND SHE HEARD THE FOOTSTEPS BEHIND HER. 233 00:12:30,241 --> 00:12:32,206 AND SHE TURNED AROUND, HE WAS RUNNING. 234 00:12:35,103 --> 00:12:36,896 IN A SPLIT SECOND, 235 00:12:36,896 --> 00:12:40,827 IT WENT FROM A LEISURELY SUMMER DAY 236 00:12:40,827 --> 00:12:43,241 WITH YOUR DOG TO A FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE. 237 00:12:43,241 --> 00:12:44,103 AAH! 238 00:12:44,103 --> 00:12:45,413 DURING THE STRUGGLE, 239 00:12:45,413 --> 00:12:46,896 SHE WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO TAKE THE KNIFE AWAY FROM HIM. 240 00:12:46,896 --> 00:12:48,551 AAH! 241 00:12:51,172 --> 00:12:52,827 DETECTIVES ARE SHOCKED 242 00:12:52,827 --> 00:12:55,862 BY THIS RANDOM, IMPULSIVE ATTACK. 243 00:12:55,862 --> 00:12:59,620 I BELIEVE THAT HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO ABDUCT HER. 244 00:12:59,620 --> 00:13:01,310 HE DIDN'T DISGUISE HIMSELF. 245 00:13:01,310 --> 00:13:02,655 WHY? 246 00:13:02,655 --> 00:13:05,413 MY GUESS-- BECAUSE HE DIDN'T THINK THAT THERE WOULD BE 247 00:13:05,413 --> 00:13:07,241 A WITNESS IN THE END. 248 00:13:07,241 --> 00:13:10,344 MELISSA ESCAPES WITH SOME DEEP CUTS 249 00:13:10,344 --> 00:13:13,551 ON HER HAND AND HER LEG. 250 00:13:13,551 --> 00:13:18,241 IT IS AS UNSETTLING AS IT IS RANDOM. 251 00:13:18,241 --> 00:13:23,275 A WOULD-BE KILLER ON THE LOOSE IN THIS SMALL, MIDWESTERN TOWN. 252 00:13:23,275 --> 00:13:26,241 AS THE ANNUAL SUMMER PARADE TAKES PLACE IN HARTFORD, 253 00:13:26,241 --> 00:13:28,827 THE COMMUNITY STRUGGLES TO COME TO TERMS 254 00:13:28,827 --> 00:13:30,482 WITH NEWS OF THE ATTACK. 255 00:13:32,551 --> 00:13:34,724 HARTFORD IS SMALL-TOWN WISCONSIN. 256 00:13:34,724 --> 00:13:37,551 IT'S A WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITY. 257 00:13:39,896 --> 00:13:43,379 THERE'S REALLY NO CRIME IN HARTFORD. 258 00:13:43,379 --> 00:13:46,000 IT WAS VERY UNSETTLING TO THE COMMUNITY. 259 00:13:48,517 --> 00:13:50,137 SO, GUYS, CHECK US OUT ON FACEBOOK UNDER TAB, 260 00:13:50,137 --> 00:13:51,206 "THE ANGRY PILLOWS." 261 00:13:51,206 --> 00:13:52,896 CHECK OUT OUR YouTube CHANNEL. 262 00:13:52,896 --> 00:13:54,379 UH, WE'LL HOPEFULLY BE PLAYING A SHOW, 263 00:13:54,379 --> 00:13:55,827 COMING UP AT ROCKY MUSIC MEDIUM. 264 00:13:55,827 --> 00:13:57,172 WATCH FOR AN EVENT. 265 00:13:57,172 --> 00:13:59,931 THIS IS THE LAST SONG WE'RE PLAYING, A BRAND-NEW ONE. 266 00:13:59,931 --> 00:14:02,068 IT'S CALLED "WALK IT OFF." 267 00:14:06,724 --> 00:14:08,586 DAN STILL LOVES HIS MUSIC 268 00:14:08,586 --> 00:14:10,344 JUST LIKE IN HIGH SCHOOL. 269 00:14:15,241 --> 00:14:16,448 IT WAS A LOT OF FUN. 270 00:14:16,448 --> 00:14:19,689 WE, UM, HAD A LOT OF FUN ONSTAGE, 271 00:14:19,689 --> 00:14:21,413 RUNNING AROUND AND... 272 00:14:21,413 --> 00:14:25,655 UH, SEEING DAN, HE WAS-- JUST GOT REALLY INTO IT. 273 00:14:25,655 --> 00:14:28,034 YOU KNOW, HE THREW OUT ALL THE MOVES. 274 00:14:28,034 --> 00:14:31,551 ♪ ANOTHER CHOKE AND BROKEN CON ♪ 275 00:14:31,551 --> 00:14:32,655 ♪ NOW, WALK IT OFF ♪ 276 00:14:32,655 --> 00:14:35,172 JUST ALL THE CLASSIC FRONTMAN. 277 00:14:35,172 --> 00:14:37,517 HE WAS REALLY GREAT. 278 00:14:37,517 --> 00:14:40,724 ♪ BECAUSE, TONIGHT, WE'RE GONNA DANCE THROUGH IT ALL ♪ 279 00:14:41,655 --> 00:14:42,965 THANK YOU. 280 00:14:48,724 --> 00:14:50,310 GETTING BACK INTO HIS MUSIC 281 00:14:50,310 --> 00:14:53,793 ALSO BRINGS DAN EVEN CLOSER TO BEST FRIEND, JESSIE. 282 00:14:55,793 --> 00:14:57,862 KIND OF MESSING AROUND WITH IT LAST WEEK. 283 00:14:57,862 --> 00:15:00,620 DAN CAME OVER PROBABLY ONCE A WEEK OR SO 284 00:15:00,620 --> 00:15:03,551 IN THE COUPLE MONTHS AFTER HE DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE. 285 00:15:03,551 --> 00:15:05,793 HE-- HE LIKED TO WRITE SONGS, 286 00:15:05,793 --> 00:15:07,655 AND JESSIE LIKED TO WRITE SONGS. 287 00:15:08,896 --> 00:15:13,620 ♪ WE ALL CHANGE AND FACE OUR ♪ 288 00:15:13,620 --> 00:15:16,689 UM, DAN JUST, OUT OF THE BLUE, 289 00:15:16,689 --> 00:15:18,655 REACHED OUT AND-- AND PULLED HER IN FOR A KISS. 290 00:15:18,655 --> 00:15:20,000 ♪ IT'S FOR YOU ♪ 291 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,448 DAN, WHAT THE HELL? 292 00:15:22,448 --> 00:15:23,862 - SORRY. - WHAT THE HELL? 293 00:15:23,862 --> 00:15:25,206 I'M-- I'M SORRY. 294 00:15:25,206 --> 00:15:27,448 LIKE, WHAT DID YOU JUST DO? 295 00:15:27,448 --> 00:15:28,413 I DON'T KNOW. 296 00:15:28,413 --> 00:15:30,517 IT MADE HER-- IT MADE HER MAD. 297 00:15:30,517 --> 00:15:31,931 WE DIDN'T THINK IT WAS THAT BIG OF A DEAL. 298 00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:33,931 - COME BACK, I'M SORRY. - WHAT DO YOU MEAN "COME BACK"? 299 00:15:33,931 --> 00:15:34,931 YOU'VE GOT A GIRLFRIEND. 300 00:15:34,931 --> 00:15:36,965 I-- I KNOW. 301 00:15:36,965 --> 00:15:39,379 MEANWHILE, POLICE ARE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT 302 00:15:39,379 --> 00:15:42,620 WHO ATTACKED MELISSA RICHARDS. 303 00:15:42,620 --> 00:15:44,379 SHORTLY AFTER HER ORDEAL 304 00:15:44,379 --> 00:15:46,551 AND STILL BANDAGED FROM THE ATTACK, 305 00:15:46,551 --> 00:15:51,034 MELISSA TALKS POLICE THROUGH WHAT HAPPENED ON VIDEO. 306 00:15:58,137 --> 00:15:59,896 I HAD BEEN IN PHONE CONTACT WITH MELISSA, 307 00:15:59,896 --> 00:16:03,482 AND WE PLANNED TO DO THE RE-ENACTMENT. 308 00:16:16,827 --> 00:16:18,206 SHE DESCRIBED THE VEHICLE. 309 00:16:18,206 --> 00:16:19,655 SHE WASN'T ABLE TO GET THE PLATE NUMBER, 310 00:16:19,655 --> 00:16:21,931 BUT SHE SAID IT WAS A DODGE CARAVAN, 311 00:16:21,931 --> 00:16:23,103 DARK NAVY BLUE. 312 00:16:23,103 --> 00:16:25,000 SHE WAS ABLE TO DESCRIBE THE ATTACKER. 313 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:29,310 SHE WAS ABLE TO DESCRIBE HIS AGE, HIS SHIRT. 314 00:16:50,379 --> 00:16:54,413 WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO'S, UH, 18 TO 22 YEARS OLD. 315 00:16:54,413 --> 00:16:56,862 WE'RE LOOKING FOR A PERSON WHO DRIVES, UH, 316 00:16:56,862 --> 00:16:59,103 EARLY 2000s DODGE CARAVAN. 317 00:17:03,241 --> 00:17:05,379 ALTHOUGH THE FESTIVITIES CONTINUE, 318 00:17:05,379 --> 00:17:06,931 THIS RURAL COMMUNITY 319 00:17:06,931 --> 00:17:10,137 HAS BEEN DEEPLY AFFECTED BY THE STRANGE ATTACK. 320 00:17:10,137 --> 00:17:13,827 IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH WORSE. 321 00:17:13,827 --> 00:17:15,551 NOBODY KNEW WHO DID IT, 322 00:17:15,551 --> 00:17:17,862 AND EVERYBODY WAS A SUSPECT. 323 00:17:23,620 --> 00:17:25,482 AND SO PEOPLE WERE-- WERE TRULY IN FEAR, 324 00:17:25,482 --> 00:17:26,724 AND THEY-- THEY WERE WONDERING, 325 00:17:26,724 --> 00:17:29,000 LIKE, "WHO'S GOING TO BE ATTACKED NEXT?" 326 00:17:37,620 --> 00:17:39,241 IT'S JULY 2013, 327 00:17:39,241 --> 00:17:40,862 AND POLICE HAVE TURNED TO THE PUBLIC 328 00:17:40,862 --> 00:17:43,448 FOR HELP WITH THE ATTACK ON MELISSA RICHARDS. 329 00:17:43,448 --> 00:17:45,551 MELISSA RICHARDS SAYS SHE TOOK HER DOG, REMY, 330 00:17:45,551 --> 00:17:47,620 FOR A WALK IN A WASHINGTON COUNTY PARK 331 00:17:47,620 --> 00:17:50,241 AND ENDED UP WRESTLING WITH A STRANGER. 332 00:17:50,241 --> 00:17:52,034 THE POLICE WERE TRYING TO SOLICIT THE HELP 333 00:17:52,034 --> 00:17:54,655 OF THE COMMUNITY TO FIGURE OUT WHO ATTACKED MELISSA. 334 00:17:54,655 --> 00:17:56,241 THEY PUT OUT A PRESS RELEASE, 335 00:17:56,241 --> 00:17:58,482 AND THERE WAS SOME NEWS COVERAGE. 336 00:17:58,482 --> 00:18:00,517 DETECTIVE WALSH AND I SAID, "OKAY. 337 00:18:00,517 --> 00:18:02,689 BE PREPARED THIS WEEKEND AND TO COME IN AT ANY TIME 338 00:18:02,689 --> 00:18:05,137 BECAUSE HOPEFULLY, WE'LL GET A TIP," RIGHT? 339 00:18:05,137 --> 00:18:07,275 NOTHING. CRICKETS. 340 00:18:07,275 --> 00:18:09,896 THERE WAS NOTHING FOR DAYS. 341 00:18:13,517 --> 00:18:16,517 AFTER HIS REBUFF FROM JESSIE, DAN BARTELT 342 00:18:16,517 --> 00:18:19,068 SPENDS MORE AND MORE TIME WITH GIRLFRIEND, ALLISON. 343 00:18:19,068 --> 00:18:20,344 HELLO. 344 00:18:20,344 --> 00:18:22,206 - HEY. - HI. 345 00:18:22,206 --> 00:18:23,620 - HOW'S IT GOING? - IT'S NOT, LIKE,... 346 00:18:23,620 --> 00:18:25,241 I'VE ONLY GOT, LIKE, 13 PAGES. 347 00:18:25,241 --> 00:18:27,344 THAT'S GOOD. 348 00:18:27,344 --> 00:18:29,103 AND SHE ALLOWS DAN 349 00:18:29,103 --> 00:18:31,448 TO PURSUE ANOTHER PASSION, WRITING. 350 00:18:31,448 --> 00:18:34,965 DAN ABSOLUTELY LOVED TO WRITE, LOVED TO READ AS WELL. 351 00:18:34,965 --> 00:18:38,689 BUT HE JUST WOULD GET ANY-- ANY THOUGHT THAT HE HAD 352 00:18:38,689 --> 00:18:40,482 ON A PAGE AND EXPAND IT. 353 00:18:40,482 --> 00:18:44,103 HE JUST LOVED TO WRITE, AND HE WAS VERY GOOD AT IT. 354 00:18:44,103 --> 00:18:45,896 HE HAD BEEN WRITING A NOVEL. 355 00:18:45,896 --> 00:18:47,724 IT WAS CALLED "RED IS RED." 356 00:18:47,724 --> 00:18:50,172 AND HE HAD BEEN WORKING ON THIS SINCE HIGH SCHOOL. 357 00:18:50,172 --> 00:18:53,586 SO HE WAS CLEARLY DRAWING FROM CHARACTERS IN HIS LIFE 358 00:18:53,586 --> 00:18:55,758 TO PUT IN THIS BOOK, AT LEAST TO SOME DEGREE. 359 00:18:55,758 --> 00:18:58,379 THERE WAS A CHARACTER NAMED JESSICA IN IT. 360 00:18:58,379 --> 00:19:00,689 AND THERE WAS A CHARACTER NAMED DEE. 361 00:19:00,689 --> 00:19:03,827 I'M GETTING A BIT STUCK, THOUGH. 362 00:19:03,827 --> 00:19:05,448 CAN I HELP? 363 00:19:05,448 --> 00:19:07,103 HE WAS A VERY ELOQUENT WRITER. 364 00:19:07,103 --> 00:19:11,034 UM, HE KNEW HOW TO MAKE A STORY, UM, MAKE IT SEEM 365 00:19:11,034 --> 00:19:13,827 LIKE YOU WERE ACTUALLY IN THE STORY AND INVOLVED. 366 00:19:13,827 --> 00:19:16,379 AND THAT'S WHAT ANY GOOD WRITER WILL DO. 367 00:19:22,206 --> 00:19:24,379 IT'S OVER A YEAR SINCE DAN, JESSIE, 368 00:19:24,379 --> 00:19:29,724 MORIAH, AND IAN GRADUATED FROM HARTFORD UNION HIGH SCHOOL. 369 00:19:29,724 --> 00:19:31,137 JESSIE IS LOOKING FORWARD 370 00:19:31,137 --> 00:19:32,896 TO GOING BACK TO MUSIC COLLEGE IN THE FALL. 371 00:19:34,827 --> 00:19:37,482 ♪ WELCOME, MONSIEUR, SIT YOURSELF DOWN ♪ 372 00:19:37,482 --> 00:19:40,310 AND DAN IS STILL AS PASSIONATE ABOUT MUSICAL THEATER 373 00:19:40,310 --> 00:19:43,034 AS HE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL. 374 00:19:43,034 --> 00:19:45,103 THERE'S A VIDEO OF HIM DOING HIS-- 375 00:19:45,103 --> 00:19:46,172 HIS PART, AND IT'S GREAT. 376 00:19:46,172 --> 00:19:47,586 ♪ MASTER OF THE HOUSE ♪ 377 00:19:47,586 --> 00:19:49,206 ♪ TURNING UP THE CHARM ♪ 378 00:19:49,206 --> 00:19:52,413 HE WAS ABLE TO MAKE IT FUNNY, UM, IN A WAY 379 00:19:52,413 --> 00:19:54,689 THAT I DON'T THINK ANYONE ELSE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO. 380 00:19:54,689 --> 00:19:56,827 ♪ MAKES A LITTLE STILL ♪ 381 00:19:56,827 --> 00:19:58,724 ♪ CUSTOMERS APPRECIATE A... ♪ 382 00:19:58,724 --> 00:20:00,482 YOU KNOW, HE WAS ALWAYS VERY GOOD AT THAT 383 00:20:00,482 --> 00:20:01,758 AND JUST MAKING EVERYTHING 384 00:20:01,758 --> 00:20:04,034 HE DID SEEM VERY BELIEVABLE AND LOVABLE AND LIKABLE. 385 00:20:04,034 --> 00:20:05,655 ♪ EVERYBODY, RAISE A GLASS ♪ 386 00:20:05,655 --> 00:20:08,448 - WHOO! - WHOO! 387 00:20:08,448 --> 00:20:11,068 SOON, JESSIE ALSO GETS A BIG ROLE 388 00:20:11,068 --> 00:20:13,137 IN A LOCAL SHOW. 389 00:20:13,137 --> 00:20:16,827 LET'S NOT GET TOO CLOSE-- TOO CLOSE. 390 00:20:16,827 --> 00:20:18,724 IT'S YOUR STAGE DEBUT. 391 00:20:18,724 --> 00:20:21,275 SHUT UP. 392 00:20:21,275 --> 00:20:24,655 JESSE WAS THE FIDDLER IN "FIDDLER ON THE ROOF." 393 00:20:24,655 --> 00:20:27,793 IT WAS HER FIRST, UM, PARTICIPATION 394 00:20:27,793 --> 00:20:30,310 IN THE COMMUNITY THEATER. 395 00:20:30,310 --> 00:20:32,413 DON'T-- CAN YOU JUST LOOK AT ME WITHOUT THE CAMERA? 396 00:20:32,413 --> 00:20:35,689 SO NERVOUS. 397 00:20:35,689 --> 00:20:37,931 OKAY, OKAY. BREATHE. 398 00:20:37,931 --> 00:20:39,413 THEY PERFORMED FRIDAY NIGHT, 399 00:20:39,413 --> 00:20:42,275 SATURDAY NIGHT, AND SUNDAY AFTERNOON. 400 00:20:42,275 --> 00:20:44,413 REALLY NOT HELPING. 401 00:20:44,413 --> 00:20:47,517 SO MUCH WORSE. OKAY. 402 00:20:47,517 --> 00:20:49,655 IS MY MAKE-UP OKAY? - YEAH. 403 00:20:49,655 --> 00:20:51,965 - I DIDN'T SMUDGE IT? - NO. OH, NO, NO, NO. 404 00:20:51,965 --> 00:20:54,551 IT'S THE SUNDAY AFTERNOON PERFORMANCE, 405 00:20:54,551 --> 00:20:56,689 AND THE HOUSE IS PACKED. 406 00:20:56,689 --> 00:20:59,931 YOU BETTER NOT PUT THIS ON FACEBOOK, OKAY? 407 00:20:59,931 --> 00:21:01,931 - OKAY. - WISH ME LUCK. 408 00:21:01,931 --> 00:21:03,620 GOOD LUCK. GOOD LUCK. GOOD LUCK. 409 00:21:11,275 --> 00:21:13,482 AND THEN, THEY HAD A LATE-NIGHT CAST PARTY 410 00:21:13,482 --> 00:21:15,344 TO CELEBRATE THEIR OPENING WEEKEND, 411 00:21:15,344 --> 00:21:17,620 THREE PERFORMANCES IN A ROW. 412 00:21:17,620 --> 00:21:21,034 AND THEY-- THEY HAD A GREAT TIME. 413 00:21:21,034 --> 00:21:23,000 AND SHE CAME HOME LATE THAT NIGHT. 414 00:21:27,379 --> 00:21:29,344 AFTER DAYS OF FRUSTRATION, 415 00:21:29,344 --> 00:21:31,827 WASHINGTON COUNTY DETECTIVES FINALLY GET A BREAK 416 00:21:31,827 --> 00:21:34,172 IN THE MELISSA RICHARDS CASE. 417 00:21:34,172 --> 00:21:37,068 THE FIRST BIG BREAK THAT WE GOT 418 00:21:37,068 --> 00:21:38,586 WAS FROM A DEPUTY, ANDY MYER. 419 00:21:38,586 --> 00:21:39,896 HEY, JOEL. 420 00:21:39,896 --> 00:21:42,896 WHEN DEPUTY MYER HEARS ABOUT THE DODGE CARAVAN, 421 00:21:42,896 --> 00:21:44,241 IT RINGS A BELL. 422 00:21:44,241 --> 00:21:45,482 YOU KNOW, I SAW A NAVY BLUE VAN OUT THERE... 423 00:21:45,482 --> 00:21:48,103 HE SAW A CAR MATCHING THAT DESCRIPTION 424 00:21:48,103 --> 00:21:50,068 PARKED IN THE SAME PARKING LOT 425 00:21:50,068 --> 00:21:53,586 WHERE THE ATTACK HAPPENED JUST TWO WEEKS EARLIER. 426 00:21:53,586 --> 00:21:56,379 HE HAD REMEMBERED THAT HE HAD RUN A PLATE 427 00:21:56,379 --> 00:21:57,896 OF A SAME VEHICLE 428 00:21:57,896 --> 00:21:59,965 MATCHING THE DESCRIPTION SOME TIME AGO, 429 00:21:59,965 --> 00:22:01,379 BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN. 430 00:22:01,379 --> 00:22:03,103 WELL, GO, GO. 431 00:22:03,103 --> 00:22:05,000 IF I'M NOT HERE WHEN YOU COME BACK, GIVE ME A CALL. 432 00:22:15,413 --> 00:22:18,413 JESSIE, I'M GONNA LEAVE BREAKFAST ON THE TABLE. 433 00:22:18,413 --> 00:22:22,931 AT 8:15, JOY BLODGETT LEFT THE HOUSE TO GO TO WORK. 434 00:22:22,931 --> 00:22:25,241 CALL ME IF YOU NEED ANYTHING. 435 00:22:25,241 --> 00:22:26,931 AND SHE LEFT THE HOME. 436 00:22:51,724 --> 00:22:54,275 JOY BLODGETT LEAVES FOR WORK. 437 00:22:54,275 --> 00:22:56,344 HER 19-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, JESSIE, 438 00:22:56,344 --> 00:22:58,310 IS ASLEEP IN HER BEDROOM. 439 00:24:12,379 --> 00:24:14,758 JOY CAME HOME FOR LUNCH. 440 00:24:14,758 --> 00:24:17,172 JESSIE? 441 00:24:17,172 --> 00:24:18,379 THE HOUSE WAS QUIET. 442 00:24:18,379 --> 00:24:20,000 SHE ASSUMED JESSIE WAS SLEEPING IN 443 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:24,310 FROM THE LATE-NIGHT CAST PARTY AT 12:30 IN THE AFTERNOON. 444 00:24:24,310 --> 00:24:25,724 JESSIE? 445 00:24:30,379 --> 00:24:32,275 DO YOU WANT SOME LUNCH? 446 00:24:33,344 --> 00:24:36,758 HEY, BABY GIRL. IT'S LUNCH TIME. 447 00:24:36,758 --> 00:24:38,724 WELL, NOW THAT WE OPENED THE PLAY, 448 00:24:38,724 --> 00:24:40,896 YOU CAN CLEAR YOUR ROOM. 449 00:24:43,689 --> 00:24:47,068 WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? 450 00:24:47,068 --> 00:24:49,482 WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 451 00:24:49,482 --> 00:24:50,862 JESSIE? 452 00:24:50,862 --> 00:24:53,965 SHE REACHED OUT TO WAKE HER UP. 453 00:24:53,965 --> 00:24:56,000 AND WHEN SHE TOUCHED HER, SHE WAS COLD. 454 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,586 JESSIE WAS COLD. AND SHE ROLLED HER OVER. 455 00:24:58,586 --> 00:25:00,206 WAKE UP, JESSIE! 456 00:25:00,206 --> 00:25:01,758 JESSIE! 457 00:25:01,758 --> 00:25:02,896 JESSIE WAS BLUE. 458 00:25:02,896 --> 00:25:04,344 COME ON, BABY GIRL. COME ON. 459 00:25:48,310 --> 00:25:53,068 WE WERE DISPATCHED TO A RESIDENCE ON WAYSIDE DRIVE 460 00:25:53,068 --> 00:25:55,551 IN HARTFORD 461 00:25:55,551 --> 00:25:58,068 FOR AN UNRESPONSIVE FEMALE WHO WAS FOUND IN BED. 462 00:26:00,620 --> 00:26:04,206 BUT THE MEDICAL TEAMS ARE TOO LATE. 463 00:26:04,206 --> 00:26:07,551 19-YEAR-OLD JESSIE BLODGETT IS PRONOUNCED DEAD 464 00:26:07,551 --> 00:26:09,034 AT THE SCENE. 465 00:26:09,034 --> 00:26:11,344 JOY BROKE DOWN CRYING AND COULDN'T TALK FOR A WHILE. 466 00:26:11,344 --> 00:26:13,034 AND I SAID, "HONEY, 467 00:26:13,034 --> 00:26:17,103 IS SHE, UH, IS SHE GONE?" 468 00:26:17,103 --> 00:26:19,689 AND NO MORE WORDS. 469 00:26:26,655 --> 00:26:30,827 SO CAN YOU REMEMBER WHAT TIME YOU LEFT WORK? 470 00:26:30,827 --> 00:26:34,103 I BEGAN MY INTERVIEW WITH JESSIE'S MOM... 471 00:26:34,103 --> 00:26:35,137 HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WAS 8:30? 472 00:26:35,137 --> 00:26:36,379 ...TO GET A TIMELINE 473 00:26:36,379 --> 00:26:39,586 OF WHEN SHE HAD LAST SEEN JESSIE AND GO FROM THERE. 474 00:26:39,586 --> 00:26:41,310 IT WAS SO QUIET. 475 00:26:44,827 --> 00:26:48,310 I OPENED THE-- THE BEDROOM DOOR AND... 476 00:26:48,310 --> 00:26:52,758 ONE OF THE THINGS JOY SAW WAS A MARK ON JESSIE'S NECK, 477 00:26:52,758 --> 00:26:56,896 AND SHE ALSO SAW MARKS ON HER WRISTS. 478 00:26:56,896 --> 00:26:58,896 I'D SAY IT BECAME PRETTY EVIDENT, UH, 479 00:26:58,896 --> 00:27:01,068 RELATIVELY QUICKLY THAT THIS WAS A HOMICIDE, 480 00:27:01,068 --> 00:27:04,482 NOT THAT SHE HAD DONE SOMETHING TO HURT HERSELF. 481 00:27:04,482 --> 00:27:06,862 JESSIE BLODGETT'S HANDS HAD BEEN TIED. 482 00:27:06,862 --> 00:27:08,482 IT WAS DUCT TAPE THAT HAD BEEN USED 483 00:27:08,482 --> 00:27:11,103 TO BIND HER HANDS AND-- AND HER FEET. 484 00:27:11,103 --> 00:27:13,344 AND OBVIOUSLY, THERE WERE CORDS AND ROPES, 485 00:27:13,344 --> 00:27:15,379 AND THESE WERE USED ALSO TO STRANGLE HER. 486 00:27:15,379 --> 00:27:18,000 IT WAS A VERY VIOLENT MURDER. 487 00:27:22,413 --> 00:27:27,517 WHAT I REMEMBER WAS THE OVERWHELMING SILENCE 488 00:27:27,517 --> 00:27:30,689 AND EMPTINESS. 489 00:27:30,689 --> 00:27:33,448 ALL OF A SUDDEN, I SAW SOME FIGURES 490 00:27:33,448 --> 00:27:34,965 FAR AWAY DOWN ON THE ROAD 491 00:27:34,965 --> 00:27:37,172 BEYOND THE APPLE TREES. 492 00:27:37,172 --> 00:27:39,000 IT WAS JESSIE'S FRIENDS. 493 00:27:45,068 --> 00:27:47,068 THEY STARTED TO COME. 494 00:27:52,137 --> 00:27:54,689 DIDN'T CARE WHAT THE RIGHT THING 495 00:27:54,689 --> 00:27:57,862 OR THE WRONG THING WAS TO DO. 496 00:27:57,862 --> 00:28:00,172 THEY JUST CAME. 497 00:28:00,172 --> 00:28:02,931 AND THEY CAME FOR US, 498 00:28:02,931 --> 00:28:04,931 AND THEY CAME FOR HER. 499 00:28:15,724 --> 00:28:17,793 12 MILES FROM THE BLODGETT HOME, 500 00:28:17,793 --> 00:28:19,275 WASHINGTON COUNTY SHERIFFS 501 00:28:19,275 --> 00:28:22,000 HAVE JUST FOUND OUT WHO OWNS THE CAR 502 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,103 THAT MELISSA RICHARD'S ATTACKER DROVE. 503 00:28:26,103 --> 00:28:27,896 THE POLICE HAVE THIS LICENSE PLATE, 504 00:28:27,896 --> 00:28:31,103 AND IT RUNS BACK TO MELVIN AND LAURA BARTELTS. 505 00:28:31,103 --> 00:28:32,931 THEY DON'T KNOW WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE. 506 00:28:32,931 --> 00:28:34,655 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT ON THE RADAR SCREEN AT ALL. 507 00:28:34,655 --> 00:28:36,551 BUT THEY OWN THIS DODGE BLUE CARAVAN 508 00:28:36,551 --> 00:28:38,689 THAT WAS IN THE-- THE PARK WHERE MELISSA WAS ATTACKED. 509 00:28:38,689 --> 00:28:41,068 HI, MRS. BARTELT? 510 00:28:41,068 --> 00:28:43,620 OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THIS, RIGHT? 511 00:28:43,620 --> 00:28:44,655 THIS IS, UH, DETECTIVE WALSH. 512 00:28:44,655 --> 00:28:46,724 AND WE MEET MR. AND MRS. BARTELT. 513 00:28:46,724 --> 00:28:49,379 AND I TELL THEM-- IDENTIFY WHO I'M-- I'M WITH. 514 00:28:49,379 --> 00:28:51,344 - DODGE CARAVAN. - UM, YEAH, WE DO. 515 00:28:51,344 --> 00:28:55,275 MR. AND MRS. BARTELT DIDN'T FIT OUR PROFILE 516 00:28:55,275 --> 00:28:57,793 OF AN 18- TO 22-YEAR-OLD PERSON. 517 00:28:57,793 --> 00:29:00,206 THEY REALIZE PRETTY QUICKLY 518 00:29:00,206 --> 00:29:03,034 THAT THE FATHER DOESN'T FIT THE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION 519 00:29:03,034 --> 00:29:05,448 BECAUSE OF HIS AGE. 520 00:29:05,448 --> 00:29:07,172 IT'S ONE OF THOSE, "WELL, OKAY. 521 00:29:07,172 --> 00:29:09,103 WELL, LET'S SEE WHO'S-- WHO'S ASSOCIATED WITH THE BARTELTS." 522 00:29:09,103 --> 00:29:10,758 AND THAT'S WHEN WE FOUND OUT 523 00:29:10,758 --> 00:29:15,206 THAT THAT THEY HAD A SON BY THE NAME OF DANIEL. 524 00:29:15,206 --> 00:29:17,586 RIGHT NOW, DAN BARTELT 525 00:29:17,586 --> 00:29:21,172 IS AT THE BLODGETT HOUSE MOURNING WITH JESSIE'S FAMILY 526 00:29:21,172 --> 00:29:23,275 AND FRIENDS. 527 00:29:23,275 --> 00:29:27,758 THEIR ENTIRE LIVING ROOM WAS COVERED WITH PEOPLE 528 00:29:27,758 --> 00:29:29,482 JUST, LIKE, SITTING AGAINST THE WALL. 529 00:29:29,482 --> 00:29:31,448 EVERYONE IS CRYING. 530 00:29:33,172 --> 00:29:34,586 DAN STOOD UP AND GAVE ME A HUG, 531 00:29:34,586 --> 00:29:36,310 AND I SAT WITH HIM ON THE FIREPLACE 532 00:29:36,310 --> 00:29:37,827 AND HELD HIS HAND AND, 533 00:29:37,827 --> 00:29:39,931 UM, JUST CRIED ON HIS SHOULDER. 534 00:29:47,551 --> 00:29:50,275 DAN GOT A PHONE CALL. 535 00:29:50,275 --> 00:29:52,206 HE LET GO OF MY HAND AND SAID THAT HE HAD TO TAKE IT. 536 00:29:52,206 --> 00:29:53,724 I CALLED DANIEL. 537 00:29:53,724 --> 00:29:55,137 HELLO, DANIEL? HI. 538 00:29:55,137 --> 00:29:57,310 MY NAME'S DETECTIVE CLAUSING.I IDENTIFIED WHO I WAS. 539 00:29:57,310 --> 00:29:58,862 AND I SAID I NEEDED TO SPEAK WITH HIM 540 00:29:58,862 --> 00:30:00,344 IN REFERENCE TO AN INCIDENT. 541 00:30:00,344 --> 00:30:02,482 AND HE SAID, "OKAY." 542 00:30:02,482 --> 00:30:03,862 AND I ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD BE WILLING TO MEET ME 543 00:30:03,862 --> 00:30:05,241 AT THE SLINGER POLICE DEPARTMENT. 544 00:30:05,241 --> 00:30:07,275 AND HE SAID HE WOULD.UM, WELL, WHERE ARE YOU-- 545 00:30:07,275 --> 00:30:09,482 WHEREABOUTS ARE YOU? I SAID, "WHERE ARE YOU AT?" 546 00:30:09,482 --> 00:30:13,620 HE SAID THAT HE WAS AT THE BLODGETT VIGIL. 547 00:30:13,620 --> 00:30:15,206 I SAID, "REALLY?" 548 00:30:18,586 --> 00:30:20,758 HE'S AT THE VIGIL. 549 00:30:20,758 --> 00:30:23,655 HE'S AT THE BLODGETT GIRL VIGIL. 550 00:30:23,655 --> 00:30:26,862 THAT'S A SHOCKING MOMENT FOR ANY INVESTIGATOR. 551 00:30:26,862 --> 00:30:28,551 I MEAN, YOU'RE INVESTIGATING ONE CRIME, 552 00:30:28,551 --> 00:30:30,758 WHICH IS BAD ENOUGH AS IT IS. 553 00:30:30,758 --> 00:30:33,448 AND SUDDENLY, YOUR KEY SUSPECT, 554 00:30:33,448 --> 00:30:35,655 YOU REALIZE HE'S STANDING IN THE HOME 555 00:30:35,655 --> 00:30:38,758 OF THIS HIGH-PROFILE HOMICIDE VICTIM. 556 00:30:38,758 --> 00:30:41,068 BUT FOR NOW, THE WASHINGTON COUNTY DETECTIVES 557 00:30:41,068 --> 00:30:44,275 ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN THE MELISSA RICHARDS CASE. 558 00:30:44,275 --> 00:30:47,655 AND THEY THINK THEY HAVE THEIR MAN. 559 00:30:47,655 --> 00:30:49,965 BUT COULD THIS ALL-AMERICAN CHOIR BOY 560 00:30:49,965 --> 00:30:52,310 REALLY BE THE SAME VICIOUS FIGURE 561 00:30:52,310 --> 00:30:54,965 WHO TRIED TO KNIFE MELISSA RICHARDS? 562 00:31:02,413 --> 00:31:04,724 THEY'RE ABOUT TO FIND OUT. 563 00:31:07,482 --> 00:31:09,448 I INTRODUCE MYSELF TO DANIEL. I SHAKE HIS HAND. 564 00:31:09,448 --> 00:31:13,137 AND WE START INTERVIEWING HIM ABOUT EVERYTHING. 565 00:31:37,379 --> 00:31:38,689 YOU'RE TRYING TO SIZE UP THE PERSON 566 00:31:38,689 --> 00:31:39,896 THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO 567 00:31:39,896 --> 00:31:41,482 TO SEE IF THEY'RE TELLING YOU THE TRUTH. 568 00:31:41,482 --> 00:31:44,413 WHENEVER DANIEL WOULD TALK TO ME, DETECTIVE WALSH 569 00:31:44,413 --> 00:31:47,275 WOULD BE LOOKING DOWN AND LOOKING AROUND. 570 00:31:47,275 --> 00:31:48,724 WE'RE LOOKING FOR INJURIES, RIGHT? 571 00:31:48,724 --> 00:31:50,344 THIS WAS A KNIFE ATTACK. 572 00:31:50,344 --> 00:31:54,275 WE'RE LOOKING FOR, UH, LACERATIONS, CUTS, BRUISES. 573 00:32:13,689 --> 00:32:15,793 WE DID SEE A-- A CUT ON HIS THUMB. 574 00:32:15,793 --> 00:32:17,241 I HAD ASKED HIM ABOUT THE CUT. 575 00:32:17,241 --> 00:32:19,862 AND HE SAID THAT HE HAD SUSTAINED THIS CUT 576 00:32:19,862 --> 00:32:22,413 WHILE PUSHING A CART AT WORK. 577 00:32:22,413 --> 00:32:24,172 AND WE TALKED MORE ABOUT HIS WORK. 578 00:32:49,586 --> 00:32:51,000 IN ACTUAL FACT, 579 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,965 DAN WASN'T WORKING AT A FACTORY AT ALL. 580 00:32:54,965 --> 00:32:57,517 HE HAD CONCEIVED THIS ELABORATE LIE. 581 00:32:57,517 --> 00:33:01,275 HE ACTUALLY HAD NO JOB. 582 00:33:01,275 --> 00:33:03,586 HE NEVER HAD A JOB AT THIS FACTORY. 583 00:33:03,586 --> 00:33:06,896 HE WAS SPENDING HIS DAYS, YOU KNOW, AT LOCAL PARKS, 584 00:33:06,896 --> 00:33:08,655 READING NOVELS, 585 00:33:08,655 --> 00:33:12,034 WRITING HIS BOOK, WRITING SONGS. 586 00:33:12,034 --> 00:33:13,827 SO NOW WE HAVE HIM IN A LIE. 587 00:33:13,827 --> 00:33:15,827 AND POLICE ARE ABOUT TO FIND OUT 588 00:33:15,827 --> 00:33:17,724 THIS ISN'T THE ONLY THING DAN BARTELT 589 00:33:17,724 --> 00:33:19,551 HAS BEEN LYING ABOUT. 590 00:33:27,620 --> 00:33:28,965 NOW, I SPOKE WITH SEVERAL 591 00:33:28,965 --> 00:33:30,448 OF JESSIE BLODGETT'S FRIENDS TONIGHT. 592 00:33:30,448 --> 00:33:32,655 THEY TELL ME SHE HAD NO ENEMIES. 593 00:33:32,655 --> 00:33:34,000 AND THEY ARE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND 594 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,620 HOW THIS COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO HER. 595 00:33:36,620 --> 00:33:38,827 IT'S THE DAY AFTER THE HORRIFIC MURDER 596 00:33:38,827 --> 00:33:42,206 OF 19-YEAR-OLD JESSIE BLODGETT. 597 00:33:42,206 --> 00:33:46,137 IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, WISCONSIN, DAN BARTELT IS BEING INTERVIEWED 598 00:33:46,137 --> 00:33:48,517 ABOUT THE ATTACK ON MELISSA RICHARDS 599 00:33:48,517 --> 00:33:51,206 A FEW DAYS BEFORE JESSIE'S MURDER. 600 00:33:54,344 --> 00:33:56,275 THOUGH WE STARTED OUR-- 601 00:33:56,275 --> 00:33:58,068 I WOULD SAY-- OUR INTERROGATION. 602 00:34:07,586 --> 00:34:10,793 TALKING TO HIM ABOUT TELLING THE TRUTH, 603 00:34:10,793 --> 00:34:12,448 COMING CLEAN ON THINGS. 604 00:34:32,862 --> 00:34:35,517 FINALLY, HE-- HE ADMITTED TO-- 605 00:34:35,517 --> 00:34:37,344 TO BEING IN THE PARK AND ATTACKING HER. 606 00:35:06,172 --> 00:35:08,482 DETECTIVE WALSH, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS, 607 00:35:08,482 --> 00:35:13,827 HE SAID, "THIS GUY IS BAD." 608 00:35:13,827 --> 00:35:16,103 VERY INTELLIGENT, VERY SMART, 609 00:35:16,103 --> 00:35:17,517 BUT THERE WAS JUST SOMETHING ABOUT HIM 610 00:35:17,517 --> 00:35:20,827 THAT THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK STOOD-- 611 00:35:20,827 --> 00:35:22,103 STOOD UP WHEN YOU WERE TALKING WITH HIM. 612 00:35:27,034 --> 00:35:29,931 IT WAS INTERESTING BECAUSE WE SAID, 613 00:35:29,931 --> 00:35:32,482 UH, "WHERE WERE YOU AT?" 614 00:35:32,482 --> 00:35:35,103 HE SAID THAT HE WAS AT THE BLODGETT VIGIL. 615 00:35:35,103 --> 00:35:36,413 WHERE WERE YOU AT TONIGHT? 616 00:35:36,413 --> 00:35:39,172 UH, UH, A HOUSE IN, UH, HARTFORD, 617 00:35:39,172 --> 00:35:40,379 JESSIE BLODGETT'S HOUSE. 618 00:35:40,379 --> 00:35:41,482 - JESSIE WHO? - BLODGETT. 619 00:35:59,793 --> 00:36:01,379 THERE'S ONE THING WRONG 620 00:36:01,379 --> 00:36:03,793 WITH WHAT DAN BARTELT JUST SAID. 621 00:36:03,793 --> 00:36:07,517 HE SAID THAT SHE WAS RAPED AND MURDERED. 622 00:36:07,517 --> 00:36:09,551 WELL, AT THAT POINT IN TIME, 623 00:36:09,551 --> 00:36:13,689 NOBODY KNEW SHE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED. 624 00:36:13,689 --> 00:36:15,206 WE KNEW THAT SHE WAS MURDERED. 625 00:36:15,206 --> 00:36:19,413 BUT NOBODY KNEW THAT SHE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED. 626 00:36:19,413 --> 00:36:21,724 SO THIS IS INFORMATION THAT ONLY THE PERSON 627 00:36:21,724 --> 00:36:24,655 THAT HAD DONE THIS WOULD HAVE KNOWN. 628 00:36:24,655 --> 00:36:26,275 SOMEONE RAPED AND MURDERED HER. 629 00:36:31,034 --> 00:36:36,482 THEN THE INVESTIGATION STARTED, RIGHT? 630 00:36:36,482 --> 00:36:38,689 FOR THE BLODGETT HOMICIDE. 631 00:36:40,689 --> 00:36:42,344 THE DAY AFTER DAN'S ARREST 632 00:36:42,344 --> 00:36:44,586 FOR THE ATTACK ON MELISSA RICHARDS, 633 00:36:44,586 --> 00:36:48,137 DETECTIVE THICKENS QUESTIONS HIM ABOUT JESSIE BLODGETT. 634 00:36:50,482 --> 00:36:53,482 COULD THIS STRAIGHT-A STUDENT REALLY BE INVOLVED 635 00:36:53,482 --> 00:36:56,000 WITH THE MURDER OF HIS BEST FRIEND? 636 00:37:05,137 --> 00:37:09,655 HE DENIED HAVING ANY CONTACT WITH JESSIE THAT DAY. 637 00:37:21,551 --> 00:37:22,896 HE ACTUALLY ADVISED US 638 00:37:22,896 --> 00:37:25,379 THAT HE HAD BEEN THERE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME 639 00:37:25,379 --> 00:37:27,758 READING A BOOK UNTIL HE FINALLY WENT HOME. 640 00:37:37,655 --> 00:37:39,655 DETECTIVES HEAD STRAIGHT TO WOODLAWN PARK 641 00:37:39,655 --> 00:37:41,689 AND RETRIEVE THE SECURITY TAPES. 642 00:37:41,689 --> 00:37:44,793 AND AT 10:30 ON THE MORNING OF JESSIE'S MURDER, 643 00:37:44,793 --> 00:37:49,310 THEY SPOT DANIEL WELL AFTER THE TIME SHE WAS KILLED. 644 00:37:49,310 --> 00:37:51,172 WE DID PLACE HIM IN THE PARK. 645 00:37:51,172 --> 00:37:54,793 IT DIDN'T GIVE AN ALIBI. 646 00:37:54,793 --> 00:37:56,862 INSTEAD, IT LEADS TO A DISCOVERY 647 00:37:56,862 --> 00:37:58,689 THAT SEALS THE CASE. 648 00:37:58,689 --> 00:38:01,620 THE POLICE WENT THROUGH ALL OF THE TRASH BINS. 649 00:38:01,620 --> 00:38:04,206 THEY FOUND THIS CEREAL BOX 650 00:38:04,206 --> 00:38:08,724 THAT CONTAINED ALL OF THESE TOOLS OF DEATH, 651 00:38:08,724 --> 00:38:11,413 THE CORDS, BLOODY GLOVES. 652 00:38:11,413 --> 00:38:13,137 THE POLICE ENDED UP WITH A MOUNTAIN 653 00:38:13,137 --> 00:38:14,482 OF FORENSIC EVIDENCE, 654 00:38:14,482 --> 00:38:17,655 WHICH IS INCREDIBLY CONVINCING 655 00:38:17,655 --> 00:38:21,896 THAT DAN BARTELT KILLED JESSIE BLODGETT. 656 00:38:21,896 --> 00:38:24,448 CALL STATE VERSUS DANIEL BARTELT. 657 00:38:27,206 --> 00:38:29,655 ON AUGUST 11, 2014, 658 00:38:29,655 --> 00:38:30,827 A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR 659 00:38:30,827 --> 00:38:33,137 AFTER JESSIE BLODGETT WAS MURDERED, 660 00:38:33,137 --> 00:38:37,586 DAN BARTELT WENT ON TRIAL FOR HER MURDER. 661 00:38:37,586 --> 00:38:40,965 AND WHEN IT'S DAN'S TURN TO TALK, 662 00:38:40,965 --> 00:38:43,448 HE LOOKS THE FAMILY MEMBERS, 663 00:38:43,448 --> 00:38:47,758 THE PARENTS OF THIS FRIEND THAT HE'S KNOWN FOR YEARS, 664 00:38:47,758 --> 00:38:51,241 LOOKS THEM RIGHT IN THE EYE AND HE DENIES KILLING HER. 665 00:38:51,241 --> 00:38:54,206 THIS JUMPSUIT THAT I'M WEARING, 666 00:38:54,206 --> 00:38:59,068 SHACKLES THAT I'M PUT IN DON'T MAKE ME GUILTY. 667 00:38:59,068 --> 00:39:02,000 BUT THE JURY DOESN'T AGREE. 668 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,344 WE THE JURY FIND THE DEFENDANT, DANIEL BARTELT, 669 00:39:04,344 --> 00:39:06,827 GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE INTENTIONAL HOMICIDE. 670 00:39:10,068 --> 00:39:12,413 ♪ HE SITS IN HIS CAR AND HE SMOKES A SWISHER ♪ 671 00:39:12,413 --> 00:39:18,241 ♪ HE ASKED HIMSELF IS HE GOING TO MISS HER ♪ 672 00:39:18,241 --> 00:39:21,965 THIS WAS A WHOLESOME, SORT OF ALL-AMERICAN TYPE BOY 673 00:39:21,965 --> 00:39:24,689 WHO LOVED MUSIC, WAS IN THE SCHOOL CHOIR, 674 00:39:24,689 --> 00:39:27,655 WAS IN A BAND, KIND OF A TYPICAL KID. 675 00:39:27,655 --> 00:39:30,965 BUT DAN BARTELT HAS A DARK SIDE. 676 00:39:34,379 --> 00:39:36,620 HE HAD A LOT OF TIME ON HIS HANDS 677 00:39:36,620 --> 00:39:39,137 FOR HIS MIND TO RUN WILD. 678 00:39:39,137 --> 00:39:42,758 UM, WE STARTED LOOKING INTO THINGS LIKE HIS COMPUTER 679 00:39:42,758 --> 00:39:44,551 THAT WE HAD SEIZED. 680 00:39:47,862 --> 00:39:51,413 HE WAS WRITING ABOUT BONDAGE SCENES IN HIS NOVEL, 681 00:39:51,413 --> 00:39:54,068 "RED IS RED," THAT HE'D BEEN WORKING ON BIT BY BIT 682 00:39:54,068 --> 00:39:56,758 SINCE HIGH SCHOOL. 683 00:39:56,758 --> 00:40:00,034 AND THERE WERE CERTAIN THEMES IN THIS BOOK OF VIOLENCE. 684 00:40:02,275 --> 00:40:07,689 HE HAD BEEN LOOKING AT SERIAL-KILLER WIKIS, 685 00:40:07,689 --> 00:40:09,689 LOOKING AT HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY HAD KILLED 686 00:40:09,689 --> 00:40:11,275 AND HOW THEY HAD BEEN KILLED. 687 00:40:13,689 --> 00:40:15,862 DAN'S FANTASY WORLD, IF YOU WILL, 688 00:40:15,862 --> 00:40:18,655 WAS GROWING INCREASINGLY DARK 689 00:40:18,655 --> 00:40:22,827 AND TINGED WITH ELEMENTS OF VIOLENCE. 690 00:40:22,827 --> 00:40:24,310 THEN, ONE DAY, 691 00:40:24,310 --> 00:40:28,000 DAN DECIDES TO TURN THOSE DARK THOUGHTS INTO ACTION. 692 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,551 HE HAD A FANTASY. 693 00:40:31,551 --> 00:40:34,034 HE WANTED TO KNOW WHAT IT WAS TO KILL SOMEONE. 694 00:40:34,034 --> 00:40:35,689 BUT WHY CHOOSE HIS BEST FRIEND? 695 00:40:35,689 --> 00:40:38,172 DAN HAS NEVER CONFESSED, 696 00:40:38,172 --> 00:40:40,827 AND JESSIE'S FAMILY MUST LIVE WITHOUT KNOWING 697 00:40:40,827 --> 00:40:43,275 WHY THEIR DAUGHTER WAS KILLED. 698 00:40:54,379 --> 00:40:55,896 I MEAN, THERE WAS THIS LOOSE MOTIVE 699 00:40:55,896 --> 00:40:58,862 THAT HE MAYBE HE HAD MADE A PASS AT HER THAT SHE REJECTED. 700 00:40:58,862 --> 00:41:02,172 BUT THERE WAS REALLY NO GREAT CONFLICT BETWEEN THEM, 701 00:41:02,172 --> 00:41:04,172 SO THAT YOU HAVE THIS YOUNG MAN, 702 00:41:04,172 --> 00:41:07,241 WHO APPEARS TO HAVE ATTACKED THESE TWO YOUNG WOMEN, 703 00:41:07,241 --> 00:41:11,724 MURDERING ONE OF THEM JUST BECAUSE HE-- HE WANTED TO. 704 00:41:11,724 --> 00:41:16,482 ♪ KNOW YOU'VE SHOWN ME ♪ 705 00:41:16,482 --> 00:41:18,965 YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME 706 00:41:18,965 --> 00:41:21,482 BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN SUCH A GENUINE PERSON, 707 00:41:21,482 --> 00:41:24,413 HOW COULD HE BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT, 708 00:41:24,413 --> 00:41:26,068 YOU KNOW? IT WAS MIND-BLOWING. 709 00:41:26,068 --> 00:41:28,517 ♪ JUST ♪ 710 00:41:28,517 --> 00:41:31,103 ♪ JUST ONE DAY ♪ 711 00:41:31,103 --> 00:41:33,586 HONESTLY, I THINK DAN ISN'T SO DIFFERENT 712 00:41:33,586 --> 00:41:34,793 FROM ALL OF US. 713 00:41:34,793 --> 00:41:37,137 DAN IS A NORMAL PERSON, IN MY OPINION, 714 00:41:37,137 --> 00:41:40,793 WHO ALLOWED HIMSELF TO GO DOWN A DARK PATH 715 00:41:40,793 --> 00:41:44,275 AND ACT OUT DARK CHOICES. 716 00:41:49,068 --> 00:41:50,275 ♪ LA, LA, LA, LA LA, LA, LA ♪ 717 00:41:50,275 --> 00:41:53,344 ♪ LA, LA, LA LA, LA ♪ 718 00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:55,068 JESSIE'S LEGACY PROJECT 719 00:41:55,068 --> 00:41:57,862 IS CALLED "THE LOVE IS GREATER THAN HATE PROJECT." 720 00:41:57,862 --> 00:42:00,103 AND OUR MISSION IS TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN... 721 00:42:00,103 --> 00:42:03,172 ♪ OH, I SWEAR TO YOU ♪ 722 00:42:03,172 --> 00:42:05,586 ♪ AS IF WE EVER STOP LIVING THIS ♪ 723 00:42:05,586 --> 00:42:08,241 AND TO ELEVATE LOVE OVER HATE IN THIS WORLD. 724 00:42:08,241 --> 00:42:11,827 ♪ AND IF WE EVER SEE THE BEAUTY ♪ 725 00:42:11,827 --> 00:42:13,172 ♪ THAT IT COULD BE ♪ 726 00:42:13,172 --> 00:42:14,517 "I'M IN THIS WORLD TO CHANGE THIS WORLD," 727 00:42:14,517 --> 00:42:15,551 AND SHE MEANT IT. 728 00:42:15,551 --> 00:42:17,862 HER LIFE WAS JUST BLOSSOMING. 729 00:42:17,862 --> 00:42:19,931 JUST-- SHE SAW HER PATH, 730 00:42:19,931 --> 00:42:22,551 AND SHE STARTED TO WALK THROUGH THE DOOR. 731 00:42:22,551 --> 00:42:23,965 AND THEN IT WAS OVER. 732 00:42:23,965 --> 00:42:26,689 ♪ SINGING THIS SONG FOR YOU ♪ 733 00:42:26,689 --> 00:42:31,034 ♪ THERE IS NOTHING I WOULDN'T DO ♪ 734 00:42:31,034 --> 00:42:34,206 ♪ I'LL BE THERE ♪ 735 00:42:34,206 --> 00:42:38,482 ♪ I'LL BE HERE FOR YOU ♪