i was not head over he lls in love, but i was with it. reporter: rachel said that money was tight for the young couple. neither of us had career jobs. money was up and down and hard to get. reporter: but she and dan continued to plan for the may wedding and that her parents said they would foot the bill. my parents are traditional and they were going to pay for it. reporter: that wedding never happened. one week before the scheduled nuptials, on friday, may 21st, 2010, the day dan told the police that he murdered sam hair, rachel said that her fiance was acting strangely. he said that he borrowed money to pay the rent and he had borrowed it from loan sharks and saying, i lied to you and i m in trouble now. and i owe bad people money. i m going to get hurt.
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
in the house. on each corner of the house. we were geared up. we got our best on. well surveillance teams waited, they questioned sam s circle. already knew about the body found in sam s apartment. we had discussed the idea of it may be being an accident, like i said earlier, sam seemed like a pretty intelligent person. if it was an accident, he wouldn t have taken off and left his apartment and try to run. both rachel and dan told detectives the last time they saw sam was friday, the day before the murder. he was with a friend, they said. a man wearing a back hat. but they had no idea what his name was. it seemed to be a dead-end. but then, back at the house, the cops were staking out a big rake. a pizza delivery.
he was a really good son. he was a good kid. did you just hear what i said? as she and a friend were leaving, rachel said that she had another strange encounter. dan s brother and his girlfriend pull up and kind of wave us down and i go out and walk up to the car window and tell them dan that be arrested. he freaks out has this look of fear in his eyes. reporter: a short time later, her phone rang, it was dan calling from his jail cell. the call recorded by the police. what did you do? i helped sam cover some stuff up and get some drugs. i didn t murder anybody. why would you try to cover
apartment. the computer on which the police found searches for how to hide a body and quick ways to kill people. did you ever see any indication that he searched for anything relating to murder or violence or how to cover up a murder? no i did not. reporter: and using that same computer, rachel posted a comment to julie on facebook the night she was killed. you returned a message to julie almost right at the time that she had to be meeting dan at sam s apartment. yes. reporter: that caused the police to question another part of rachel s story, that she didn t see dan leave the apartment that night. she told them she fell asleep on the couch watching a movie. when she was called to the police station interview room a few days later, she was shocked whose dan s story was evolving, told her his tail of helping