in may 2010. dan wozniak was celebrating his upcoming marriage at his bachelor party. often described as a man s last night of freedom. suddenly that became truer than ever before when police crashed the party. dan wozniak was with a group of friends. detectives were following the murky trail of sam herr, a suspect in the murder of julie kibuishi. she was a beautiful and talented 23-year-old with dreams of becoming a fashion stylist. did you think you were going to find sam herr in that restaurant? i was hoping we would. i was hoping he d be with daniel. celebrating dan s upcoming wedding? yes. not that lucky?
sam. okay. all right. i killed them both. all right. you didn t see that coming. no. dan wozniak dropped a bombshell on detectives. sam herr was not a murderer on the run. he was already dead. and he, daniel wozniak, was the killer of both sam and julie. so when he blurts that out, what s your reaction? the immediate reaction was, did i just hear what i think i heard? even for seasoned detectives, the story dan wozniak told was almost beyond imagining. dan said he went after sam first. they drove together to a theater, a place where dan had once taken the stage. dan had told sam he needed help moving some heavy items down from the attic. i said, you need to bend down and help me lift this thing up.
but you just i didn t see you just told us you saw two bullet wounds. you were no. standing over her. no, no, no, no. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop. okay, okay. how did your dna get on her? i was standing over the body. i saw two bullet wounds to her head. it s exactly what you said, dan. you can t even keep your lies straight. listen, he said he shot her twice. when i walked in i saw two bullet holes to the head. that was, that was your, that your that s not what i meant. that s not what i meant. i apologize. dan was getting tangled up in his story. first he said he only helped sam after the fact. then he admitted he d seen julie s body. he also contradicted himself, first saying sam told him about the bullet wounds, then saying he, dan, had seen them. with every slip, dan seemed to
by then, it seemed, his story had changed again. he now claimed he did not kill sam and julie. they were saying that i shot both of them and decapitated one of them. it s not true. and then dan spoke about his ex-fiancee, rachel buffett. he said the hardest part of being in jail was missing her. if i was given the opportunity to talk to my fiancee right now, i d either say can i be with you out there or can you be with me in here? here in jail with him? an unusual comment. was there any possibility rachel had something to do with these crimes? you think dan s protecting rachel, or is rachel protecting dan? dan would be protecting rachel. rachel s protecting rachel. you think she knows more than she s saying? oh, definitely. just what did rachel know? i asked her. this is my name.
no. but they hauled dan in anyway. immediately when he saw me he turned pale. you could see the blood just draining from his face. the plan was to make dan talk, and fast. so they hit him with a heavy charge accessory to julie s murder after the fact. and dan, now back at the station, rolled over like a trained seal. ed everette monitored dan s interview with detectives mike delgadillo and mike cohen as dan readily admitted to a crime. he s alleging that he and sam came up with this conspiracy to commit a fraud and use this wesley kid to implement it. dan said sam gave him his atm card and p.i.n. the plan was to have wesley withdraw money, and then sam would report the card stolen so the bank would have to reimburse him. but dan said before they had the chance to make any real money, something went wrong. i got a knock on my door. i want to say it was about 8:00, 8:30 in the morning. okay. opened the door. it was sam. all right. i m like, hey, man, what s