Paul DeLano

I remember we walked in the backyard.

There was no dirt to stir of it.

You know, nothing out of the ordinary.

It just seemed like a normal, lived-in house.

At that time, the grandma kept the house pretty clean.

Dante's room was normal.

But we do find a dark colored hoodie with a white emblem that later is going to be very similar to the clothing that we see in the Walmart video.

And now the detectives have a lot more information to confront him with and ask him about.

Like now they're aware of the bank transaction.

They're aware of the car being dropped off.

And so they're going to start asking him more direct questions.

And when they start talking about the bank transaction, Dante becomes pretty uncomfortable and asks for a lawyer and stops the interview at that point.

Just the amount of time that had gone by with no communication, her car being left behind, her cell phone, this age of technology, it's almost virtually impossible to disappear without some sort of trace, especially for somebody of Kelsey's age and vibrance that we'll find out that she possessed.

It's not in her character to just disappear off the face of the earth.

And she's got a lot to look forward to in life.

I mean, she just had the world ahead of her.

When reviewing the case file, the captain and I and the detectives realized that nobody had ever obtained a DNA sample from Dante Lucas.

And if we were to do any other further forensic analysis on anything from Kelsey's vehicle or we start to recover evidence, we needed to have this standard to compare any DNA to Kelsey's.

We're not even out of the front yard yet, and on the sidewalk, and my cell phone starts ringing from an unknown number.

And it was Dante's mom.