and he deserve to be happy. come down pretty hard on daniel for here. sam was also having an affair. yes. do you condemn him for that behavior, as well? no. i don t think he intended to meet someone. i don t think he intended to have an affair. he met diane dianne, he had known or three months. that s a far cry and a world apart from danielle seeking a man on ashley madison and having a long term affair with him for four years. in the weeks following the funeral, the detectives continue their investigation. to have their shooter. but they also had lingering questions about whether danielle had somehow been involved. obviously, first things come to mind is the wife has a hand in this. she s linked and she s got to have something to do. and as mcdonald and shell
so that danielle other staff. she somehow associated. i think she is. dreher as much if not responsible for the man that shot him. cindy told detectives hatred only motive. but that she was also age-old incentive. i believe it was the money, to divorce the half of it. to get down with it. i think it was money. i think it was always money. just over 1 million dollars, and in fact. it was a substantial amount of money that she was going to gain if sam turned up dead. and that s exactly what happened. we asked daniel to sit down this for an interview. both she and her attorney declined. but during danielle s interview with the detectives, she methodically denied having anything to do with sam s murder. i would never kill my husband. i would never kill another
hello. i m ann canning. and this is dateline. told me he love me. i loved him he said he d be back. i d hear a motion of some sort. and then i remember, hearing gunshots. one there. it s the website where to meet and cheat. it s someone looking to have an affair. but this affair was about so much more defeat. the affair became a game, a wife and her spying on her husband and his lover you just think, what have they done? and that the spy spot turned
reporter: in the weeks following the funeral, detectives mcdonald and szalbirak continued their investigation. they had their shooter, but they also had lingering questions about whether danielle may have somehow been involved. obviously, one of the first things that comes to mind, the wife has a hand in this. she s linked. she s got to have something to do with it. reporter: and as mcdonald and szalbirak sifted through the evidence, they became more confident they were on the right track. what they discovered stunned even these two seasoned investigators. for over a month danielle had been spying on both sam and dianne. danielle was just totally obsessed with what sam was doing, which went beyond anything that i ve seen before in investigations. reporter: what s more, it appeared to them that danielle had persuaded michael to help her. they had basically stalked them.
didn t go as planned when sam saw michael was armed, he fled. don t run. you know? i m trying to like freaking force him to talk to me. michael ran after sam up these stairs. he said at some point while the two were in the stairwell, sam turned. michael claims that he was in fear and closed his eyes and just fired his gun. then he, you know, comes toward me and i just you know, i just i closed my eyes and i just pulled the freaking trigger and i m so sorry. with all the things he s telling you he s in a relationship with danielle, do you start to think we need to talk to danielle dreher. yes, so the next step was let s hear danielle s story. so detective szalbirak left michael and headed to the hospital where danielle had been waiting for updates on sam s condition. all she had been told was that sam had been shot. no one told her by whom. when i got over there, she was crying. she was very upset. detectives recorded the interview. we re trying to piece what all h