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[singing] ♪♪ Children crying for Jesus ♪

♪♪ I love you ♪

I think he's insane, I think he's evil as evil could be.

[man 1] All the way through, this guy is a serial murderer.

[man 2] When I was standing next to him,

every instinct in my body was,

somebody should put a gun to his temple

and pull the trigger.

He thought I was Jesus for real.

So, I let him tell his story to me.

The guard opened the door and there he was,

smiling, going,

"I knew you were Jesus.

You've come to take care of me."

[man 3] Hadden Clark started worshipping Jack Truitt

because he thought Jack Truitt was Jesus Christ.

I beat him up a lot.

He would ask me,

"Jesus is supposed to be non-violent."

I said, "Yeah, but I'm trying to beat the devil out of you."

[crying] And then, the worst thing of all,

he murders

a little girl. Oh, no.

He wrote his whole diary out to me.

I asked him, I said, "Why did you do this to these people?"

He said, "I saw my father do it."

He's told me he's killed people

in Provincetown, Block Island.

[man 4] Hadden probably killed

several people up in Massachusetts.

[Jack] When he was in the Navy, he said

he killed people in every port he was in.

He said, "I liked what she had on,

I put her clothes on after I killed her."

All these pictures that he drew

were crime scenes.

-[dog barking] -[dispatch] Slow down. Go down the alley.

[man 5] He is just evil incarnate.

[officer] Go, go, go!

[man 6] As soon as he gets out, we're gonna track him down,

and we have to put him in the ground.

We're gonna kill him.

My name is John Patrick Truitt.

Most people know me as Jack,

because I don't like John.

Nothing against the Johns in the world,

but the only time I got called John

is when they put me in prison.

In 1999,

I was doing a life sentence

for murder.

One of the jurors,

I had dated his daughter,

and he did not like me.

It wasn't a good trial.

I've been in prison for 26 years.

Never expected to get out.

I was being transferred

to another jail...

along with about eight of us.

This guy,

that got on the bus with all of us,

was doing this.

Rocking back and forth,

going... [groaning softly]

Making this godawful, weird-ass smile.

Which, you don't do that in prison.

You don't stare at somebody,

especially the way he was staring at me, with this grin.

Like you would see in one of them movies,

like the Joker.

-Ugh. -[Joker cackling]

Crazy.

I said, "God, I hope that's the last I see of him."

We get to the cell.

The door opens,

and there he is.

[exhales] I'm thinking, "This ain't right, man."

He just

looks at me, and he goes,

"Jesus, I know God sent you to me.

I have a lot to talk to you about."

I said, "No you don't."

I got up into bed,

turned my back on this guy,

and went to sleep.

The next morning I wake up,

he's sitting over on the toilet, just writing.

He told me,

"I'm gonna tell you everything I did,

so I can be forgiven."

He really believes that I'm Jesus Christ.

He had to confess to me,

that he killed someone

in every state in the United States.

I'm like,

"Who is this guy?"

He's going,

"Nobody knows this.

But I know where Michele is buried."

I said, "Who the hell is Michele?"

[man 1] I remember when Michele was turning six,

she had her birthday party

arranged for her class

to come to Chuck E. Cheese.

I'm Carl Dorr, Michele Dorr's father.

And I have this picture in my mind of her

doing the can-can with all the little girls and boys,

and just giggling and having a good time.

[man 2] Michele Dorr is a cute little six-year-old

with brown hair and a bubbly personality.

I am Jim Trusty.

And I worked at the state's attorney's office in Montgomery County.

Unfortunately, she was a kid that was

going through some tough times in terms of a pretty...

Uh, what's the word I would use?

A pretty angry divorce.

[Carl] On Memorial Day weekend

in 1986,

Michele's mother, Dorothy, had

made plans to travel to Virginia Beach,

visiting her family.

I had physical custody of Michele.

I thought we would just have a nice, leisurely May 31st.

I would do whatever Michele wanted that day.

My time was her time.

It was a very hot day.

I stuck a hose in the kiddie pool

in the backyard.

Went back to the house.

Watched the Indianapolis race.

Carl knew she was gonna be out in the yard,

and he kind of settled in to watching the race.

And the hours really passed without any sort of event.

Michele came inside the house.

I saw her get the multicolored towel that she was carrying.

Go out the back door.

Thought that I heard that Geoff's children were home.

Geoff Clark was another separated father

who had, a good friend of Michele's at the time, Elizabeth.

I assumed that Michele was

outside next door at the Clark family.

My name is Geoffrey Clark.

Michele

was of a family of divorce,

and so she came to visit her dad

every other weekend.

She would come over and she made friends with Elizabeth.

So, it wasn't unusual

for us to come home from not being here

and find her sitting on the front stoop waiting.

[Carl] 5:45, I walked over to the Clark house.

Looked in the backyard. There was the Clark family.

I asked them, "Where's Michele?"

And Geoff said, "Well, she's not here."

And I said, "What do you mean she's not here?"

"She's been here playing with Elizabeth. I..."

"No, Elizabeth hasn't seen her."

Like, I...

That didn't register at all.

So that completely freaked me out.

And I started to panic.

So we had a neighborhood search.

Dorothy, Michele's mother,

didn't tell me where she was going to be

or leave a number other than to say

that she was going to see her family.

And I didn't have a number to call her either.

Then I just pointed my car at

the nearest police station and reported her missing.

We went over the last time I approximately saw her

when she came inside the house.

Probably around 2:00 in the afternoon.

And that's really the last time

I laid eyes on her.

The police, they took it very seriously.

That night, there wasn't anything I could do,

and I was worried to death.

The following day, the detectives, you know,

wanted to start doing an investigation

and asking questions and that sort of thing.

They pretty much just wanted the facts and they wanted...

One of the things they wanted me to do to...

to clear the parents

was to take a polygraph test, which I immediately agreed to.

Of course, they start with easy questions like,

"What is your name, date and birthday?"

And then they started asking questions about Michele.

I told them

that the best I could remember last,

uh, seeing Michele was around two o'clock

that Saturday afternoon.

But I wasn't sure.

You know, I hadn't been watching the clock.

And then they started asking questions about

if I had done anything, any harm to Michele.

And then later,

Detective Farrell told me I failed the polygraph test.

And I said, "No. You've got the wrong guy."

And he says, "No. I've talked to Michele's mother.

And she tells me that

you would have done something with Michele.

And I'm accusing you of having killed your daughter."

[Jim] Carl Dorr is Michele's father.

And he was married to Dorothy, or Dee Dee as we call her.

That marriage had fallen on tough times.

And there had been a lot of negative comments made,

including Carl

threatening to the effect of,

you know, "If I can't have, uh, Michele...

you won't have her either."

So they put a lot of time and energy

into really cracking Carl Dorr,

trying to find out

if he had a horrible secret that was gonna

solve the case very quickly.

I knew I was a suspect at that point.

The detective was in my face,

screaming at me.

"We don't find a child like Michele's age

when it's been over 24 hours.

That means your child is gonna end up dead."

It was a terrible, terrible experience.

And it was gonna drive me nuts.

[Jim] The police canvassed the neighborhood to see

what kind of information anyone would have.

One thing that was helpful was a gardener nearby who,

during the course of that afternoon,

wanted to borrow a telephone from

the Clark household,

who lived next door to Michele Dorr.

So he was in the doorstep

of the Clark household.

And he was met by

Geoff Clark's brother, Hadden...

who briefly talked to him.

He remembered asking for a phone.

But also seeing a small girl inside the house.

No real deep description there,

but something that at least

started to make that link between

Michele Dorr and the Clark household.

[Geoffrey] I remember the kids and I were out back there

cooking hamburgers and hot dogs

and having a,

you know, Memorial Day weekend kind of day,

when all of a sudden these cops

come swarming into the backyard.

Michele was missing.

And they asked about her. So I'm like,

"Go through the yard. Look." You know.

You know, the general questions they were asking if,

you know, when we'd last seen Michele,

where we had been.

And of course, they asked about Hadden.

So, unfortunately,

as you look around my home

and you see

the chaotic nature that I live in...

Here's...

a few pictures I found.

So this is me right here in the middle.

This is Brad.

This is Hadden.

Hadden was born in 1952.

I was born in 1955.

My brother Hadden had

serious developmental issues.

When he was still very little,

my mother worked very hard

to provide what she could.

Hadden could smile.

He couldn't do nothing else.

He could at least give a good smile once in a while.

[chuckles]

Things were wrong with Hadden from the start.

[automated voice speaking]

[Hadden speaking]

[automated voice speaking]

[Michael speaking]

[Hadden speaking]

[Michael speaking]

[Michael speaking]

[Hadden speaking]

[Geoffrey] He didn't talk.

I remember stories about

my mom having people over

and just manipulating his body when he was really little,

trying to get his muscles moving.

[Michael speaking]

[Hadden speaking]

When I was starting to walk,

my mom would knock me down

to try to prevent me from getting the gist of it

because Hadden wasn't walking yet.

There were mental things that were not right.

[Hadden speaking]

[Michael speaking]

[Hadden speaking]

[Michael speaking]

[Hadden speaking]

[Michael speaking]

[Hadden speaking]

[Geoffrey] Hadden spent a lot of time

in different specialized schools

to try to deal with

the other matters that

caused him to be antisocial.

[Hadden speaking]

[Geoffrey] When he graduated from high school,

I guess that would be

'70 or so,

Hadden got into

The Culinary Institute of America.

And after that, he just started

traveling around,

taking jobs here and there.

[Jim] We started to see this pattern.

He'd have a job, he'd get fired,

he'd take off with all of the cutlery

and slash all the tires in the parking lot.

In 1985,

Hadden had been discharged from the Navy

and he was kind of

in-between work, in-between housing,

so he went to stay with his brother for a while.

[Geoffrey] He had no place to go

and he needed my help.

So I invited him to come stay for six months.

I met Stephanie, who became my wife,

during the time Hadden was living here.

And I didn't want him to know her.

I didn't want her to know him.

So I asked him to move out,

'cause he'd already overextended the time

I had offered to him by more than double.

[Jim] On the day Michele disappeared,

Geoff ordered him to leave.

And Geoff took his family with him, including Elizabeth,

just to kind of clear the way to let Hadden

get his stuff together and get out of that house.

So we were gone for...

hours.

[Jim] A short time later, the detectives brought Hadden

to the Montgomery County Police Department to talk.

On the day in question,

he basically said he was at his job

at Chevy Chase Country Club.

And eventually there was a time card

that was presented to them

that showed being at the club at 2:46 p.m.

If the times were rigid,

if 2:10 was exactly the last time

that Carl had seen his daughter,

and if 2:46 was

exactly the time that Hadden Clark

showed up for work at the Chevy Chase Country Club,

it was a pretty effective alibi.

It was literally gonna be impossible to show

that this man had time in that window

to kidnap a small child

or clean up the crime scene as he might need to do.

Law enforcement didn't spend any real time

and resources focusing on Hadden Clark at that point,

any more than any other neighbor.

[Carl] As I was watching the news, I guess on Saturday night...

All I can say is basically we are

asking a lot of questions.

Part of the investigation is questioning people.

We have to question all of the family members.

...I started hallucinating.

I thought the police were talking about me

or something odd. And it's just

a total disintegration of my mental health.

I got this

delusional thinking that I could somehow,

you know, bring her back to life or something.

It was just the only way I could cope.

It was the only hope I had

of ever seeing her alive again.

[Carl] Eight days after Michele was missing,

I had this delusion of grandeur

that I had this power of resurrection.

And if I had that power, then I must be Jesus.

So I went to tell Michele's mother.

And unfortunately, this guy,

Edward Jagen, was there.

Ed Jagen

was a private investigator

that had injected himself into the search for Michele.

Earlier that week,

for some reason,

Ed Jagen was obsessed with the crawl space

under my bedroom in Silver Spring.

So I'm thinking to myself,

maybe he's killed my daughter.

And he's giving me all of these clues

that he's buried Michele under my crawl space.

So I accused him of being the devil,

and we needed to go to my house in Silver Spring

and find Michele.

So they called the police,

and that's where they searched.

[reporter] Michele disappeared from her father's home.

He's given conflicting accounts of the event,

including claiming to have buried her in his house.

And that's the story that got out in 1986,

that I confessed to killing Michele

and burying her in the crawl space.

At no point did I ever confess

to myself having killed Michele.

[Jim] Carl Dorr was saying all sorts of outlandish things,

such as she's under a crawl space.

They would go check the places that he specifically identified,

and there was nothing there.

And so they realized during that interrogation,

this guy was losing it.

I mean, the stress of losing his daughter,

the stress of being accused,

the stress of public accusation,

all of that conspired

to put Carl Dorr in a terrible state of mind.

The waiting and hoping go on,

but tonight the physical search

for six-year-old Michele Dorr is ended.

Michele's father is no longer under psychiatric evaluation.

[interviewer] What do you hope for?

I hope that somebody has her that hasn't harmed her.

That's what I hope.

[interviewer] Do you still feel that you'll see her someday?

I hope to God, yes.

Like any homicide case,

time is not usually your friend

if you're trying to solve it.

And in this case,

Michele's body was not turning up.

And it just got to a point

where it started to fade from public conscience.

It was really nowhere to go.

On October of 1992,

there's another high-profile missing person

in Montgomery County.

[man] She was a resident of Bethesda.

She lived there with her mother

when she wasn't in school.

My name is Ed Tarney.

I was a detective investigator

in the Major Crimes Division, Montgomery County Police.

At that time, Hadden Clark was working

for her mother as a gardener.

I'm Richard Fallin, and I'm

a retired

Montgomery County Police homicide detective.

We told our sergeant

that the gardener was

a guy named Hadden Clark.

Well, the sergeant just froze

and looked at me, and he said,

"Hadden Clark?" I said, "Yeah."

He said, "That was a suspect in Michele Dorr."

After we started looking into the Michele Dorr case,

we go back and try to figure out what happened.

Why wasn't Hadden a suspect here?

And we find out, well, he was, but he had an alibi.

And so I said, "Okay, well,

you know, we'll check that out."

[Edward] There was a very short period there,

from Carl seeing her last

to Hadden punching his time card.

So, Carl

essentially had given

Hadden Clark an alibi

because of the time

that he had said he last saw Michele.

I remember reading in the case file

that Carl

was just saying some bizarre stuff.

He was going through

a bitter divorce,

his daughter is missing,

and the police are all over him.

He just had a breakdown.

I just put myself in his place, you know,

trying to understand

why he was acting the way he was.

And it just dawned on me.

I went to him one afternoon. I said, "Carl...

this is what I think happened.

I think you fell asleep

and you lost track of time,

and you didn't want

to be blamed as an irresponsible father

in this divorce situation.

And I think you embellished that time."

And he admitted to me that was true.

[Carl] And I'm expected to give them a minute-by-minute blow

of what happened that afternoon.

I made a statement

to the best of my ability at that time.

And the best I could do was approximations.

When we talked to him, he started marching the time

earlier and earlier in the afternoon

to something closer to the lunch hour

than two o'clock.

And that made a big difference

in terms of crumbling Hadden Clark's apparent alibi.

It certainly gave Hadden enough time to do

his deed.

During that investigation, they found out

that Hadden, that night,

went to Naval Medical Center after he got off work.

He had a cut on his hand.

Maybe cut himself with a knife.

[Richard] So we're thinking,

he murdered Michele Dorr. We just can't prove it.

[reporter] Six-year-old Michele Dorr vanished

over the Memorial Day weekend in 1986

while playing in a wading pool in her father's backyard.

At first, police suspected him.

Now the case is reopened,

and police are focusing on Hadden Clark.

Clark lived with his brother two doors down from Carl Dorr.

[Geoffrey] As soon as the cops had told us

that Michele was missing,

I knew that Hadden was responsible

for whatever had happened.

At the time, it was only suspicions,

and there wasn't...

There were not yet facts to

really back things up.

[Edward] At the time that Michele Dorr went missing,

Geoff and his new girlfriend

had left for the day,

and Hadden was left there alone

to move his stuff out.

And I remember

we gathered everything up

and went down to the residence.

And we did a search.

[Geoffrey] They then came back to us,

to me,

uh, to ask if they could do

forensic work upstairs.

[Edward] We thought he might have killed

Michele upstairs in Elizabeth's bedroom.

[Jim] And that led the detectives

and the investigators upstairs

to this very small room.

And they investigated heavily.

And one of the things that was most fascinating,

the wooden grooves,

the wooden slats of the floor,

had an appearance of something that had been

soaked in a material, and then cleaned.

We tore up the entire floor in the bedroom.

And that's when the chemist was able to develop some...

What she believed was human blood.

And that's where they found

the leftover blood

down in the cracks from Michele.

[crying softly] Oh...

[reporter] Montgomery County Police were very busy yesterday

in Silver Spring.

They were searching for evidence

and collected evidence in the home of Geoffrey Clark,

Hadden Clark's brother.

[Edward] From that point, I contacted everybody that

lived in that house

to find out if anybody had bled

in that bedroom.

And the prior owners

said there was nobody that bled up there.

So, was it Michele's blood?

DNA wasn't as developed back then as it is now.

So, with that, all we have is mitochondrial DNA.

[Jim] Mitochondrial DNA

was actually very new back in 1999.

It's more exclusionary than it is inclusionary.

They couldn't say, this is Michele Dorr's blood,

but they could say

that the blood was inconsistent with

the occupants of the house, the Clark family.

And when you start with that basic presumption,

we have this opportunity to say,

"This is where it happened."

[Geoffrey] I think I already had

a form of knowing

that it had happened here.

But I'm just so grateful that

forensic science has come along.

[reporter] Bright-eyed six-year-old Michele Lee Dorr

was last seen alive on May 31st, 1986.

Now, 12 years later,

police have finally arrested

the man they believe to be her killer,

Geoffrey Clark's brother, Hadden.

Despite extensive searches earlier this year,

Michele Dorr's body has never been found.

[Jim] I mean, there was a lot of challenges in this case.

And one of the biggest handicaps was

that we did not have a body recovered.

[Edward] Sometimes a circumstantial case,

jurors can understand those,

because it's just a common sense thing.

[Jim] We actually think that, Michele,

in a lot of ways is a victim

of him being evicted.

Hadden Clark was the type of guy

who would get very angry,

who would take offense, and who would overreact.

[Edward] Michele came to the house.

He said that Elizabeth was upstairs

playing in the bedroom,

and she could go on up.

Since he was a chef, he had these knives.

And that's

when he went upstairs

and confronted Michele.

And he killed her in Elizabeth's bedroom.

[crying] I welcomed him into my home.

He had no place to go.

And then

the worst thing of all

is I'm realizing he can't stay here

and I tell him he has to leave,

he gets so mad at me

he murders a little girl.

[crying] Oh, God.

I don't know how he got evil.

I don't know when he got evil.

Hadden Clark was convicted of

second degree murder by the jury.

The conviction

carried a possible penalty of 30 years.

He got 30 years.

In the immediate aftermath of the verdict,

it was mostly just a feeling of relief.

[Carl] Michele was...

you know, a six-year-old

with her whole life in front of her.

She wanted to be a teacher when she grew up.

And that day is not gonna happen,

unfortunately.

I'm just so sorry she was

at the wrong place at the wrong time

and she met...

Hadden Clark.

We were happy we had taken a shot at this case,

that we had gotten a good result,

that we had gotten him off the streets

for effectively what would be the rest of his life.

But there were open questions.

Where was Michele's body?

That always nagged at us, you know.

[Edward] After Hadden is convicted,

he gets sent

to the Western Correctional Institute

in Western Maryland.

[Hadden speaking]

He's full of crap.

[Hadden speaking]

Oh, my God.

Well then, I'm telling you, this is [bleep]

[Hadden speaking]

[Jack] In 1999,

I'm on the third day with Hadden,

and I don't know

what I'm going to do with him

for some of the stuff he's coming out of his mouth with.

Well, he had no problem telling me about

how he ate body parts.

This is mental stuff.

I just told him, I said, "Look, man...

whatever you're saying, just write it down.

When you feel like you need to tell me something,

draw it, write it.

Don't talk to me about it."

And he said, "Okay."

And that's when he started, man.

He was just going crazy writing [bleep] down.

Haddon's art

was so creepy.

[Michael speaking]

[Hadden speaking]

[Michael speaking]

[Hadden speaking]

[Jack] All the people have real big eyes.

There's drawings of everything.

If you see it, you'll go,

"Oh, I don't want to see that no more."

He would draw clues

to other people he killed.

And then

he told me he killed Michele.

I was like,

"Oh, God, but I wanted

this guy killing a little girl."

I said, "Why are you telling me?"

He said, "Because you're Jesus."

He was convinced I was Jesus Christ.

I mean, no doubt.

He believed

that my father

had sent me

into the system to help him

confess all his crimes

and to move on.

You're a prisoner.

And you're put in with this guy.

He's talking to you

like you're Jesus Christ,

and he believes it.

And I started playing with that.

I told Hadden,

I need to know

where this little girl is resting.

Then I called my wife, Jackie,

and I said, "Jackie,

please call

any law enforcement that you may know

that you can trust.

[Jackie] He thought this guy was a nut job.

But for some reason,

Jack thought maybe he could find

Michele's body.

[Jackie] Jack called me one night and said

that he was in the cell with Hadden Clark...

and that he had

killed a little girl named Michele Dorr,

and that her body had never been found.

[Jack] All I could think about

is somebody doing that to my kids.

I would hope and pray

that they would be doing what I'm doing.

[Jackie] That's when I went to the police department,

and they gave me Joe Gamble's number.

My name is Joe Gamble.

I was a Maryland State Police homicide detective.

January of 2000,

I traveled to Western Correctional Institute

to interview Jack.

Jack is

pretty laid back,

um, more laid back than I'd ever seen anyone

in the prison system.

And he's kind of a cool guy.

Back in the '60s and '70s,

I was responsible for bringing cannabis to the shore.

And I'm kind of proud of it.

[Joe] Jack told me that

Hadden had murdered Michele Dorr

and buried her in a park in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Joe would ask me, "What do you think about this?"

I said, "I don't think he's lying to me, man."

[Joe] I then request

one of the correctional officers

to bring Hadden Clark into the room.

I introduced myself to him

and said, "I understand that,

you know, you'd like to talk to me."

"As long as he stays," looking at Jack.

I said, "Well, he can stay."

[Jack] That's true.

He had told everybody,

"If Jesus is not with me,

I'm not talking."

You know, and I introduced myself.

Um, he was quiet.

Once we broke through there,

it was almost like this more shy kind of person

was now

kind of excited

that he had an audience.

And he was very excited

about sharing details.

Joe's got the ability.

You can trust him.

And me being in there,

Hadden could pick up I trusted him.

So Hadden was telling me about how he buried Michele,

where he buried her and how exactly he did it.

Now, back 25, 30 years ago,

on a reclining chair,

you would have actually a box spring

with metal springs,

you know, the size of the seat.

He said he dug a hole

and then put the body in the hole.

And then he put a box spring over the top of it.

And then covered that up with dirt and leaves.

He said, that way,

animals, if they started digging down,

they would run into those metal springs

and wouldn't be able to dig the body up.

I've dug up a lot of bodies

in the woods and in fields all across the state.

But never had I encountered someone that

had thought it through that well,

to actually put a metal box spring over the hole.

And I could tell that this man had murdered people before.

It was obvious that he had

been involved in some

very horrific acts.

There was no doubt in my mind, though, there were

other victims out there.

[dog barking]

[officer] Over here! Got something!

[dog continues barking]