And why why did it break your heart? i think i still loved my husband, still had feelings for him. reporter: what s more, danielle said she and michael had stopped their spying weeks before the shooting. detectives also asked about those text messages which they found so troubling. danielle said they were all in fun. they first questioned danielle about the texts michael sent her. i want to blow his head off and then put two in her just for good measure. do you remember him saying that? i don t. but he s said it before. he would say things like i ll kill the [ bleep ] did you ever think he was serious? no. reporter: they then asked danielle about the messages she sent back to him. i m so close to introducing them both to daisy. i remember saying that. i didn t have daisy with me, though, at the time. nor would i do anything with a gun. i mean, i think i was trying to impress michael in a weird way. reporter: do you think that they re joking with each other or do y
Is not enough unless i can show that there was a conspiracy. michael minor never gave me that information. reporter: what is your gut telling you, that danielle was indirectly involved, directly involved or she wasn t involved. reporter: had no part in this whatsoever? she wasn t involved in that homicide. reporter: news of the decision not to prosecute danielle for sam s murder made sam s sister, cindy, furious. do i think it s a tough case? yes, absolutely. but you know what? their job is not to prosecute cases that are easy. their job is to prosecute criminals. reporter: but just when everyone thought danielle was free and clear, prosecutor fraivillig said not so fast. remember michael minor s videotaped break-in of dianne mcknight s apartment? the prosecutor believed danielle not only helped plan the break-in, but she also instructed michael to steal some of dianne s possessions. danielle was charged with burglary and theft. at trial, the defense argued danielle nev
In this text message to michael, danielle wrote, get out of there if you aren t already. getting bad feeling. and he s doing it at the request basically of danielle. reporter: but what detectives found most alarming were the text messages michael and danielle sent each other. reporter: michael minor writes, i want to blow his head off and then put two on her just for good measure. he goes on to say, bang bang, done. i won t, though, because it s wrong. danielle later responded, you would not and could not because that would be illegal. that was definitely disturbing. reporter: in another text danielle referred to her handgun, which she called daisy. she wrote, i am so close to introducing them both to daisy. michael responded, ha, ha, we can do it together. as a date. smiley face. in yet another, she wrote, i hate them with every inch of me. revenge will be mine, and it will be very, very sweet.
one of the shots was to the back of sam s head. so sam is laying here and michael is right on top of him basically giving him the final shot? he would have had to have been. that s what the evidence indicates. one shot might have been an accident. not the three or four shots that he actually fired. that was not accident at all. but detectives wanted to know if this wasn t an accident, why then did michael shoot sam? got all these pieces to the puzzle and you try to fit them all together. that s when michael revealed something that would turn the case on its head. he told detectives about an affair. but it wasn t the affair between sam and dianne. it was an affair he was having with the victim s wife, danielle dreher. they had been having an affair for four years. it was a mind-spinning moment. detectives had just discovered the victim, sam, had been cheating on his wife, danielle. now they were learning danielle had also been cheating on sam.
Mcknight also tried to aid the victim. there was just blood everywhere. and i didn t i just didn t know what to do. i ran back into my apartment and got towels. as the minutes ticked by, trish began to worry the shooter might still be in the area. then all of a sudden, you start to think, wow, i wonder where the person is that did this and for all i knew, the person upstairs shot him. but those questions would have to wait. soon paramedics arrived on the scene. they learned the victim was one of their own. it was firefighter sam dreer. the paramedics immediately little airlifted him to the nearest trauma center as word of the shooting spread. and it s danielle. she s screaming into the phone. you have to come. he s been shot. he s been shot. and i said who s been shot? and she screams out sam.