about how awkward i felt. reporter: to her surprise, sam s family embraced dianne. they all received me well. in fact, they invited me to come up with and sit with them. she s truly a lovely person. and i think she made him happy. and he deserved to be happy. you ve come down pretty hard on danielle for her affair. sam was also having an affair. yes. do you condemn him for, 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 dianne. he had known her three months. that s a far cry, you know, and a world apart from danielle seeking a man on ashley madison and having a long-term affair with him for four years. reporter: in the weeks following the funeral, detectives mcdonald and szalbirak continued their investigation.
she did manipulate him. did she manipulate him to the point of killing sam? i don t know. reporter: detectives mcdonald and szalbirak realized they needed to pay danielle dreher another visit. we re going back to find out what is your intent, what is your involvement in this? coming up, did someone have reasons to commit murder? it was a substantial amount of money she was going to gain. when dateline continues. and add elegance to your home. but quilted northern is not a robe. it s just really nice toilet paper. emreplenished,d, fortified. emerge everyday with emergen-c. packed with b vitamins, electrolytes, antioxidants, plus more vitamin c than 10 oranges. why not feel this good every day? emerge and see.
reporter: little did dianne know, a man fitting that very same description had just been arrested. he had approached sheriff s deputies moments after they arrived on scene and confessed to the shooting. the deputy that had him in the back of the patrol car already told us that he made statements that he was the shooter. reporter: did you feel like this could be an easy one, case closed? or did you think there s got to be more to this story? there s never an easy one. there s always more to the story. reporter: the man identified himself as michael minor. detectives mcdonald and szalbirak immediately brought him down to the sheriff s office for questioning. he s very distraught, but he s willing to talk to us. and we were very much ready to listen to him. reporter: michael outlined for detectives the details of the shooting. he started by insisting it was all an accident. i never intended to pull that trigger. reporter: but detectives weren t so sure.
apartment complex. the same man who appeared moments after sam was shot. they said could you describe him? i described him. little did she know a man fitting that very same description had just been arrested. he had approached sheriff s deputies moments after they arrived on scene and confessed to the shooting. the deputy that had him in the back of the patrol car already told us that he made statements that he was the shooter. did you feel like this could be an easy one, case closed or did you think there s got to be more to this story? there s never an easy one. there s always more to the story. the man identified himself as michael minor. detectives mcdonald and szalbirak immediately brought him to the sheriff s office for questioning. he s very distraught but he s willing to talk to us. we were very much ready to listen to him. he outlined for detectives the details of the shooting. he started by insisting it was all an accident. but detectives weren t show so sur
point of killing sam? i don t know. reporter: detectives mcdonald and szalbirak realized they needed to pay danielle dreher another visit. we re going back to find out what is your intent? what is your involvement with this? coming up did someone have a million reasons to commit murder? there was a substantial amount of money that she was going to gain if sam turned up dead. when dateline continues. emerge restored, replenished, fortified. emerge everyday with emergen-c. packed with b vitamins, electrolytes, antioxidants, plus more vitamin c than 10 oranges. why not feel this good every day? emerge and see.