there s a body in my son s apartment. there s a what? a body. a dead body. a dead body. is it someone that you know, sir? no, i have no idea who she is. does your son know who it is? he s not here. jesus, honey. reporter: after sam herr s dad, steve, called 911, the news spread quickly at camden martinique. my phone rings and it s my husband, asking me if i m okay. and i yes, why? he said, there s been a body discovered in sam s apartment. track down everybody. reporter: rachel and dan had just returned from the theater where they were co-starring in a play. dan s, 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 s missing. a body was found in one of their apartments. this is something that, like, was affecting the whole atmosphere.
something. and then i walked out and went, i did, i did something. i did something to help. that s what i wanted. reporter: what two families wanted were some answers and some relief from their pain. those answers finally came. i m pretty much satisfied with the answers right now. never prove everything 100%, josh. but i m not gonna get much more reporter: unfortunately, the criminal justice system has never doubled as a grief therapist. some wounds are too great to be healed in a courtroom. and the day that she left the door and then her voice and what she was wearing and, you know, i m getting old and you forget a lot of stuff. but those things, i just not that. i don t want to forget her, forget, you know, that image and her voice and it s hard.
welcome back. dan wozniak confessed to the murders of sam and julie. he also told police he acted alone. there was no physical evidence tying dan s fiancee rachel buffett to either killing but detectives believed she had lied to them to protect dan. now the couple, once of toast of their community circle theater, face separate trials. would two grieving families finally learn the truth? here is the conclusion of the final curtain. reporter: in december 2015, five years after sam and julie s murders, the lives of two young actors was playing out, not on stage, but here in court. dan wozniak went on trial first.
i wanted them to charge her with murder. but i m not the one who has to prove it to everybody. that s not my job. reporter: rachel pleaded not guilty. she posted bail and was released. yeah, i m still in shock, disbelief. reporter: later that day, she held a press conference. are you saying you re innocent? what are you saying? i m completely innocent. reporter: she was willing to bet that a jury would agree. coming up rachel on trial. reporter: you an honest person? i think so. there is not a doubt in my mind that rachel knew. when dateline continues. s it can cause damage to the enamel. with pronamel repair toothpaste, we can help actively repair enamel in its weakened state. it s innovative. with pronamel repair, more minerals are able to enter deep into the enamel s surface. the fact that you have an opportunity to repair what s already been damaged.it s amazing. i think my go-to toothpaste
murders of sam and julie, and realized they happened on the same day as his weird meeting with dan and rachel. chris immediately called police. we were shocked to learn it. and again, we went back and said, hey, you know, rachel didn t tell us any of this the day before. reporter: so detectives interviewed rachel again, this time not as a witness, but as a suspect. why don t you tell me why you forgot to tell me about this? because honestly i was afraid that if you knew that chris had seen us that day, i don t know who chris knows, and i don t know if chris knows anybody bad. i m kind of afraid. did you think we were not going to find out? they ll come to me. we were going to find out? i guess not. i m a little bit afraid for my safety. reporter: remember, chris had told dan and rachel the money he lent them came from other