in sam s apartment, track down everybody. rachel and dan had just returned from the theater, where they were co-starring in a play. dan is, you know, wondering was i the last one to see sam? oh, my god, oh, my god. and rachel is sitting on the chair next to me, and she s squeezing her head and she s got a terrible headache. all of your new best friends that you hang out with every day, one of them is missing. a body was found in one of their apartments. this is something that was affecting the whole atmosphere. costa mesa police detective ed everett responded to the call. we have a 20 something year old female on the bed, and she s in a position that appears that she was sexually assaulted. police soon i. d. the victim, sam s tutor and friend, julie kibuishi. they had to tell julie s parents. i think i was screaming like no, that s not my daughter, that s not my daughter.
sam s neighbor, dan wozniak, might somehow be wrapped up in the mystery. now they were about to bring dan in for questioning, where he would make a stunning admission and change the course of the entire investigation. once again, here s josh mankiewicz with final curtain. detectives on the hunt for their prime suspect, sam herr, traced his atm card to rachel buffett s fiance, dan wozniak. they found him at his bachelor party. immediately when he saw me, he turned pale. you could see the blood just draining from his face. detective everett hauled dan to the station and charged him with accessory to julie s murder. dan seemed eager to come clean. he told police sam confessed to him that while drunk and on drugs, sam asked julie for sex. she said no, and then he just shot her twice in the head. i m really like, you re you re totally with me
did you get him involved, and why? rachel didn t seem to react. instead, she asked about dan s unwitting accomplice, wesley. and when dan described killing julie, rachel continued to focus on details. i opened up the door of sam s apartment, shot her twice in the back of the head. how did nobody hear the gun? i don t know. i got lucky. detectives wondered, did rachael know about murders before they even happened? and more disturbing, did she participate? i think she may have been present when julie was killed. i don t think julie would have gone into the apartment with daniel by himself. hard even for a homicide detective to imagine. you don t look at a disney princess as a hardened, cold blooded, callous murderer. of course, thinking it and proving it were two different things. and perhaps, rachel was just another victim of dan s
rachel said she couldn t believe that dan was somehow mixed up in julie s murder. is that when you start to think to yourself, this guy that i m about to marry is somebody that i don t know? i was still thinking that i knew his heart. and those crimes that he was saying that he did, at least that still lined up with someone who would do anything to help somebody in need. did he tell you about this? did he tell you his involvement? you know anything about this? hell, no. in the early morning hours, detectives drove rachel back to the apartments. i go to my friends and knock on the door, and then at that point, just start bawling. and she s shaking violently, and says dan has been arrested, and she s just a mess. with vylet at her side, rachel went to her parent s home to tell them dan was in jail, and the wedding was off. and my mom, she has lost it.
julie had been shot twice in the head. her pants were down, and someone had written on her sweatshirt the words all yours, f-u. police found julie s phone in the apartment, and saw those weird texts sam had sent her. they learned about his combat tour, and how sam sometimes had night terrors. and when police searched his name in their database, they found someone sam s friends already knew. he had done some jail time. back in 2002, at 18, sam herr was charged in the murder of another teenager. he was acquitted, but sam s dad knew that in hindsight, it didn t look good. that didn t buy you a lot of rhythm from law enforcement. no, and i understood that. that s why it was imperative to start looking immediately. steve wanted to find his son to prove he was innocent. orange county prosecutor matt murphy also wanted to find sam quickly, for entirely different