the centuries-old motive money. more than $60, 000, in fact. sam herr s combat pay. when he was deployed, basically all the money that he was earning in the military just went into a savings account. he didn t spend it when he was deployed. and dan wozniak wanted that money? yes. and julie kibuishi? dan said he killed her to cover his tracks and to frame sam. to make it look like he was on the run and he did it. he was the one that did it. right, and that if he was disappeared completely, you d never find him. and it would all go away. but none of this was going away. especially for those left behind in the wake of two murders. steve herr, sam s dad, remembers when police showed up at his door. they came in, and they said, sam s been found. he was murdered. and for whatever reason, i said i don t know what made me say
police were looking hard for sam herr. detective ed everette. he s on the run and he s in the wind. and now it s our job to find him and see where he s at and ask him why. not a whole lot of question of who the suspect was at this point. no. we were pretty confident he was our guy. steve herr was also eager to find sam but for an entirely different reason. to clear his son s name. so steve began his own investigation. why did you feel the need to do your own police work? i didn t look at it as police work. i looked it as i wanted to find some answers for looking to find sam, first of all. where could sam be? is somebody helping is he running away? did he come up with some foul play? steve called sam again and again, but sam s cell phone was going straight to voicemail. i love you. let me know what s going on. what what s going on? then a big break, and a
this. at least he wasn t dismembered. okay? the next morning, i get a call from the costa mesa police. he says, steve, before you find out, we just want to let you know sam was dismembered. that s when i just lost it. the very next day, sam herr would have turned 27 years old. sam s friend, ruben. you know, the night that it was his birthday, his father s praying to find his head. sorry. so it s very upsetting, you know. when police told you they thought that julie had been killed essentially to cover up a different murder, sam s murder, what did you think? it s probably the pain is more painful than you re ripping your own body parts, you know, apart to hear that your daughter s being killed.
phone, it went directly to the answering service. on saturday. steve decided to check on his son. so i drove down there and knocked on his door. no answer. and i had the key to his apartment. so i walked in there, and i looked in to turn on the light. the living room looked fine and i said, okay. sam? nobody there. and that s when he saw it. i was what the hell, what s going on here? i freaked out. coming up, a father searching for his son finds something he never expected. there s a body in my son s apartment! there s a what? a body, a dead body. coming up, a father searching for his son finds something he never expected. there s a body in my son s apartment! there s a what? a body, a dead body. a dead body? and no one can find sam. you think, okay, this guy is