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.
It s a knot. i m not sure that it will ever come undone but i do know that there is more to the story than has been told. it all began back in 199 when a 26-year-old local firefighter by the name of sam dreher met the love of his life danielle laborvo. they were the ideal young couple, they held hands, looked at each other dreamily over dinner. he seemed crazy about her. sam s older sister cindy lutz was thrilled when she found out sam had a serious new girlfriend. what was your first impression? she was really sweet. she seemed crazy about him. she liked the outdoors and liked to travel. they had a lot in common. so it came as no surprise when sam announced he was ready to pop the question. as for how he proposed, the
it was very obvious that danielle had some kind of hatred towards sam, that there was that she wanted to hurt him. reporter: and based on those text messages, it seemed clear to detectives that she had persuaded michael to feel the same way. i absolutely think she poisoned michael s mind as far as what sam was. everything he knew about sam was that he was a violent person. he was described to him as a drunk, as a cheater, as a liar. that knowledge came from one person and one person alone. it was danielle. reporter: did you have any evidence as you kept investigating that sam was abusive or violent toward danielle? there was no evidence of that whatsoever. danielle definitely had control over michael minor. she did manipulate him. did she manipulate him to the
Who shot sam. instead he started by asking danielle about her marriage to sam. danielle candidly described it as troubled. we had been not getting along for many months. danielle also explained that she knew sam was having an affair despite sam s best efforts to conceal it. did you know where he went today? today? i m sure he went to his girlfriend s, yeah. but he always goes to her house. i m not surprised by that. danielle then admitted she too was unfaithful. she was pretty straightforward, told me about the affair. it was wrong. i shouldn t have done it. nobody should cheat. little by little, the detectives led danielle to believe they were focusing their investigation on her lover michael. so it would kind of shock you if michael went and confronted him? yeah. that s what happened. really? and we have michael. do you? it wasn t the reaction the detective was expecting. he found her tone to be strangely flat and unemotional. that was troubling to me.
And that s exactly what happened. reporter: we asked danielle dreher to sit down with us for an interview. both she and her attorney declined. but during danielle s interview with the detectives, she emphatically denied having anything to do with sam s murder. i would never kill my husband. i would never kill another human being. reporter: and the man who pulled the trigger supported danielle s claim of innocence, in no uncertain terms. i ve acted on my own. i did. i did this all on my own. you know, i just so you re indicating that danielle s only involvement was in order to help you basically get dirt on her husband to help with the divorce? nothing to do with harming him? right. reporter: but michael s response didn t sway cindy lutz. i didn t believe him. i think he was protecting her. i think he would have done anything for her. reporter: cindy believes that includes lying about danielle being involved in sam s murder.