Kevin Klem
Appearances
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
It was great, like we had it all figured out. We're gonna go down to South Beach, celebrate the New Year's, come back on Monday.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
They came to my hotel around noon, and by the time the detective dropped me off back at my hotel, it was 1230 at night.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
We know you did it. Why'd you do it? We don't think you're a bad guy. Maybe you made a mistake, you know, and all this stuff. And I'm just like, I can't tell you I did something I didn't do.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
Everything. Signed a release, no warrant necessary, waived my Miranda rights. Let's do it because I need you to rule me out immediately so that we can get on to finding who killed her.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
I didn't know. They didn't tell me. They didn't tell me anything. They just said, you know, I hope we don't find out you did it.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
Pricey, but whatever baby wants. This is the hottest ticket in town, all the celebrities. Oh, she heard the celebrity's going to be there, and she didn't want anything to do with anything else. She had to go to Lady Gaga.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
And they say, well, go talk to her. They leave me, come back, and they say, listen, we talked to her. And she just wants to stay. And you got to go. You got to get out of here, man.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
It's a decision I'm going to regret the rest of my life. I mean, that's my nightmare. I wake up thinking, if only I would have stayed an extra 10, 20 minutes. If only. If only. If only.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
It wasn't some random guy off the street walks up to her and she just walks off with him.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
She knew how to read guys. And listen, I mean, she's been working in clubs in Detroit for eight years. Detroit's not a nice area. And she never had any problems. The boyfriend is convinced it had to be someone who'd been hitting on her in the wee hours at club space. But it wasn't some random guy off the street walks up to her and she just walks off with him.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
I see her walking out and, you know, the bouncers eye her. Her go out, I see three or four people fall right behind her. This one guy that's kind of right behind her, could be with her, I don't know. She walks out of frame and then immediately after the two bouncers, just like immediately... They go out after her. That's what I see.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
She liked celebrities and the velvet rope and all that stuff. Absolutely. The VIP tables. Absolutely. That was her style. She was a beautiful girl. I mean, you take one look at her, she didn't take a bad picture.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
It does look like someone that I saw that night at the club. when Death of a Golden Girl continues.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
It does look like someone that I saw that night at the club. Inside the club? It appears to me it looks very closely like a bouncer at the club. Like a bouncer? It looks like one of the bouncers at the club, yes.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
This place is a zoo. I mean, there's absolutely no way there's not witnesses out there that saw her leave.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
The entire security crew's gone. Different security altogether. From the door guys to everybody is different in there. They changed out the entire staff pretty much, especially the security crew.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
He said, well, you know, I'm going to be at Space. You should go to Space. Space to the locals, club space to out-of-towners.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
One in particular. I turn around for a second. He's on her, you know. He's got his hand around her waist. He's crotch right up against her. And he's leaning down, kissing. And she's looking over at me, kind of like laughing and like whatever. And I'm like, okay, we got to go.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
And I just grab her around the waist and the forearm, and I'm like, come on, baby, it's time to go. Do the boyfriend shuffle with her kind of thing. She's like, wait a minute, I don't want to go. Bam, bouncers are on me. They must have been watching or something, but they were on me instantly. Bam, two guys.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
I'm not happy. You know, it's not the way I want the night to end.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
We got to that point where she was like, this is it. Take it or leave it. And I said, well, I love you that much. I'm going to take it.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
She's like, listen, get yourself together. We need to get this girl's picture out on the TV and out on the airwaves.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
He'd now last seen Paula about 10 hours before. And I'm freaking out. We're from out of town. We're vacationing. You know, it's not like her for to be gone this long. So what happens the rest of Sunday night?
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
hospitals and jails i'm calling hospitals jails space hospitals jails kevin even went back to club space which was closed late sunday night to ask the homeless in the area if they'd seen paula earlier that morning after spreading some money around he went to a gas station two blocks away i'm in the taxi i get out i go inside and i talk to the clerk and i show him a picture of my girlfriend that's kevin on security camera i say have you seen this girl he's like no well i haven't only been here for like an hour or two
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
I gave a very, very accurate description of her. And the medical examiner says, hold on a second. Gets back on the phone and says, we're sending a detective. Heart just sinks.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
He pulled out a baggie, a Ziploc baggie. And, um... There was two piercings, two posts. They were all like charcoal, like all burnt, blackened, you know. And he said, would these be the piercings? And I lean and I look close. I'm like, no.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
He pulled out a photocopy of her earring. And I knew it was her. And that's the worst day of my life.
Dateline NBC
Death of a Golden Girl
Paula, that was my baby. She didn't skip on herself, and she liked to live the good life, you know, and going down to South Beach was like, that was it.