with rachel, in the musical nine. in this video of the performance, dan showed no signs of stress, as he played the starring role. dan told police that during the show, he texted julie from sam s phone, pretending to be sam. after the play, dan said he went to sam s apartment, and lured julie into sam s bedroom. i said, right, lean over look at it right there. and when she was leaned over, i put 2 bullets in the back of her head. dan admitted scrawling those nasty words on julie s back and to splitting her pants with a pair of scissors. the next day, he said, he disposed of sam s body, and then gave another pitch perfect performance. captured on videotape. detectives asked why? and your motive behind kiling sam was? money and insanity. money and insanity. okay.
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. 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
combat tour, and how sam sometimes had night terrors. and when police searched his name in their database, they found someone sam s friends already knew. he had done some jail time. back in 2002, at 18, sam herr was charged in the murder of another teenager. he was acquitted, but sam s dad knew that in hindsight, it didn t look good. that didn t buy you a lot of rhythm from law enforcement. no, and i understood that. that s why it was imperative to start looking immediately. steve wanted to find his son to prove he was innocent. orange county prosecutor matt murphy also wanted to find sam quickly, for entirely different reasons. you ve got a dead woman in his apartment, he s missing, and then you factor in afghanistan, and you start thinking, okay, he s a trained killer. he had been accused of this before and you think, this guy is potentially very dangerous. the detectives and the dad hunted sam independently. but on parallel tracks, detectives spoke with sam s neighbors
grabbed his credit cards, and i grabbed wesley and we took money out of his account. how is wesley involved? how did you get him involved, and why? rachel didn t seem to react. instead, she asked about dan s unwitting accomplice, wesley. and when dan described killing julie, rachel continued to focus on details. i opened up the door of sam s apartment, shot her twice in the back of the head. how did nobody hear the gun? i don t know. i got lucky. detectives wondered, did rachael know about murders before they even happened? and more disturbing, did she participate? i think she may have been present when julie was killed. i don t think julie would have gone into the apartment with daniel by himself. hard even for a homicide detective to imagine. you don t look at a disney princess as a hardened, cold blooded, callous murderer. of course, thinking it and proving it were two different things. and perhaps, rachel was just another victim of dan s murder plot. there was n
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