With our commitment free guarantee, there s never been a better time to start listening to audible. the most inspiring minds, the most compelling stories, the best place to listen. to start your free 30-day trial, text listen5 to 500500 today. of all the homicides karen fraivillig has prosecuted, she found the case of sam dreher s murder especially frustrating. it s hard to remain unemotional in a murder. in the murder of an innocent person who did nothing except fall in love with another woman. reporter: michael minor may have shot sam, but prosecutor fraivillig believed danielle manipulated him to do it, and that her motive was more than just money. i think there was a financial motive, certainly. probably, the most overarching
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.
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reporter: 24 hours after sam dreher had been shot, his condition began to deteriorate rapidly. sam s sister, cindy, was there when the family decided to take him off life support. i hated it. i thought of him like he was one of my children. i loved him that much. were you able to be with sam? were you able to hold his hand and say goodbye? i did. what did you say to him? i made him a promise that the people responsible for his murder would would pay for it. reporter: the news of sam s passing hit dianne mcknight hard. in my mind i m still thinking, maybe there s still some hope that he can survive this. but when i heard that, i knew that i was never going to see him again. reporter: sam s great niece, aubrey cake, didn t make it to
If not more responsible than the man that actually shot him. reporter: cindy told detectives she believed hatred wasn t danielle s only motive, that she was also driven by that age-old incentive. i believe it was the money. to divorce him and split half of it is one thing. but to get all of it? i think it was money. i think it was always money. reporter: just over a million dollars, in fact. there was a substantial amount of money that she was going to gain if sam turned up dead. 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