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- Tonya was absolutely a firecracker.
She was the center of attention.
She was the jokester.
She's the one that would start the conversation in a party
or a lot of people around.
She'd never met a stranger.
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- She was missing her shoes.
Her clothes were dirty.
There was a blue towel that was next to her body
that appeared to have blood on it.
- It looked like she had been disposed of
like a bag of trash on the side of the road.
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- I remember it's 12:00 pm, March 18th, 2020.
We get the call that he's coming out of his work
and his truck and it was go.
And so, the two investigators
that were dressed up as patrol officers,
they pulled him over.
When he got out, Danny pulled up behind him, Danny Harnett,
and said, "Hey, we have something we
wanna talk to you about at the police station.
Will you come with us?"
And the thing that struck me
was when he got out of his truck,
when Daniel Wells did, he was 6'7".
He was humongous.
He was just this giant.
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We got back to the police station.
- [Daniel Wells] Okay.
- You're hanging on every word,
and you're understanding that it's this dance,
literally, between good and evil.
So there was a level of excitement that you could feel.
I can't describe the tension of sitting there
and watching them interrogate Daniel Wells.
- I knew what kinda questions they were gonna ask him
and how they were gonna try to back 'em into some corners.
- Right.
- And this is the moment where things are coming to ahead.
My heart was in my throat.
- And then, just to finally hear that moment
where he, for the first time,
confesses this evil, dark secret that he had was just,
I can't describe the emotions.
It didn't really quite feel real.
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Being able to watch Wells alone in that room
and call his sister, and call his coworker,
and tell 'em what happened.
You could just see Wells just realize,
"This is my last day as a free man."
- He was seeing his life go away as he knew it.
And it just is,
and it's something that's very raw and visceral,
and you can't believe someone would do something like that,
much less you would be there for the moment
where they confess.
It's kinda overwhelming,
realizing that we finally know who killed Tonya.
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