Molly’s younger sister, Melissa, coming down from Abilene was all jagged nerve endings. Murphy: How was she?Birkenfeld: Pretty distraught.Murphy: She was a mess, huh?Birkenfeld: Yeah, yeah. Immediately after the accident, friends and family rushed to comfort Molly at her home in Leander, Texas. Murphy: It was some hard reading?Birkenfeld: It was really tough. It went from head to toe of what everything looked like.
It was right across the top of the page: Clayton Wayne Daniels. Murphy: Did you see the name Clayton Daniels on it?Amy Birkenfeld, Molly’s friend: Oh yeah. The examiner ruled that they were.Īmy Birkenfeld, one of Molly’s friends at the home remodeling company where they worked together, got a glimpse of the gruesome autopsy report. It was up to the medical examiner in nearby Austin to confirm that those 12 sad pounds of human remains were those of 23-year-old Clayton Wayne Daniels.
When investigators called, Molly told them that Clayton had driven his car to his mother’s house the night before and still hadn’t come back by morning. I worked accidents like that, but never this bad.Īuthorities quickly traced the car to a young married couple, Molly and Clayton Daniels. Talamantez: Yes sir.Murphy: Where does this fit in?Cpl. I didn’t see a head, and both legs were gone.Dennis Murphy, Dateline correspondent: You’ve seen bad stuff.Cpl. And the person inside? Just 12 pounds of ashy stump remained. William Talamantez: It was burned up where I couldn’t even tell what color the vehicle used to be. William Talamantez of the Texas Department of Public Safety got to the scene, on the morning of June 18, 2004, barely anything was all that was left of the Chevy Cavalier.Ĭpl.
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Had the driver maybe fallen asleep at the wheel? It had all the earmarks of a grisly highway accident.īy the time Cpl. Inside the burned out vehicle, they found a single body, but little remained more than cinders. It plunged down this embankment and ended up in this ravine in a ball of fire. It began as simply as a car leaving the road in rural Burnett County Texas.
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