Has been hurt. now back to dateline. 24 hours after sam had been shot his condition dee titerior rapidly. his family decided to take him off life support. were you able to be with sam and hold his hand and say good-bye? i did. i made him a promise that the people responsible for his murder would pay for it. the news of sam s passing hit diane mcknight hard. i kept saying maybe there s some hope that he can survive this but when i heard that, i knew that i was never going to see him again.
Espionage. it s exactly like that. they were playing spy games. now it was up to mcdonald to find out if all of those spy games somehow developed into a conspiracy to commit murder. i think it s very suspicious that she had this. detectives sat down with danielle and reported interviews with her on three separate occasions. from the very first interview, danielle willingly acknowledged that she and michael had been tracking sam and diane. where did you put the tracker in the vehicle? i put it up under the driver s side rear wheel and i have been tracking him for about a month and a half. danielle also admitted to helping michael take the surveillance photos. who took the pictures? michael did. okay. whose camera? mine. but danielle denied all of
Being involved in sam s murder. and cindy wasn t alone. do i believe that she was part of the murder scheme? yes. reporter: sarasota county lead homicide prosecutor, karen fraivillig, believed danielle manipulated michael to kill sam. she s a very manipulative person and she was able to manipulate michael minor, and there s a dead man because of that. reporter: the question now before the prosecutor, could she prove it in court? coming up will one lover betray another? we were hoping that he would contact us and say hey, i want to tell you the truth. and the lover left behind ponders what might have been. was he the one? he was one, without a doubt. he still is the one. jardiance asks. when it comes to type 2 diabetes, are you thinking about your heart? well, i m managing my a1c, so i should be all set. actually, you re still at risk
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
reporter: now it was up to mcdonald and szalbirak to find out if all those spy games somehow developed into a conspiracy to commit murder. i became very suspicious that she had a part in this homicide. reporter: detectives sat down with danielle and recorded interviews with her on three separate occasions. from the very first interview, danielle willingly acknowledged that she and michael had been tracking sam and dianne. where did you put the tracking device on the vehicle? i put it up under the driver s side rear wheel. okay. and i ve been tracking him for about a month and a half. reporter: danielle also admitted to helping michael take those surveillance photos. who took the pictures? michael did. okay, whose camera? mine. reporter: but danielle denied that all this elaborate spying escalated into a murder plot. instead, she said it was simply preparation for her pending