Friends, one of them is missing. A body was found in one of your apartment. How my doing right now . If i had to put it in one word, now would be the closest. It was a mystery where nothing she had been murdered. He disappeared. Now, police have two mysteries to solve. Love triangle . The obvious suspect, the missing man. The obvious problem, no one could find them. This guy is potentially very dangerous. What was real, and what was pretend . Enter the actors. Was the killer really missing, or was he hiding In Plain Sight . I said hes dirty. Somebody knew the truth. And this father refused to give up until he knew it, too. Everything is based on me knowing the whole story. Theres an empty theater, a script full of twists, a troupe places, please. Theres a script full of twists , a troupe of actors, and someone who set the stage for an unbelievable tragedy. I buying it. Im buying it hook line and inker. All of it so odd, it was hard to tell what was real and what was an illusion. I just
we the jury in the aboved entitled action, find the defendant guilty of the crime of murder. reporter: this was a death penalty case. jurors now had to decide if dan should live or die. the defense attorney scat sanders made absolutely no executes for his client. we did nothing in the guilt phase of this case to indicate that they were challenging his responsibility for the crime. reporter: but he did ask the jury to consider if dan would deserve the death penalty if someone else influenced his decision to kill. that person, in the defense s view was dan s fiance, rachel buffet. a girlfriend. reporter: they talk about the moment that she went to the police department to see dan. she s learning about all of this incredible stuff and she
toys and another iran diplomat dismissed them as fireworks. and 12 jurors and six alternates were anytime finalized for former president donald trump trial. the trial is expected to last roughly six weeks. and now back to dateline. reporter: in november 2012, two years after the murders of sam and julie, while rachel buffet s former fiance was ait watching trial on murder trials, rachel was arrested and charged as an accessory. she posted bail and was released. i m in shock. reporter: shortly after, rachel publicly announced her innocence. are you saying you re innocent? completely innocent. reporter: and she agreed to sit down with us because she
rachel buffet and dan two actors that met in a play and fell in love. they were supposed to walk down the aisle. but instead, dan was in jail. and rachel was left to break the news to family, friends and invited guests. i go to my friends and knock on the door and i started bawling. rachel went to her parents home to tell them what was going on. my mom lost it. she cannot speak. she s bawling. reporter: it was a mess, not only because of the cancel wedding, rachel s oldest brother noah was under suspicion. you think that noah knows
accessory to murder. detectives believe they helped hide some evidence, including the murder weapon. leslie, the teenager that used sam hair s bank card was not charged with any crime. and his confession to the police, he pled not guilty. he was denied bond and if convicted, could face the death penalty. a year after his arrest, dan sat down for an interview of msnbc lockup. it seemed like his story changed again. he claimed that he did not kill sam and julie. they were saying that i shot both of them and decapitated one of them. that is not true. reporter: and then dan spoke about his ex-fiancee rachel buffet. he said the hardest part about