okay? accessory to murder, that s what you re being arrested for. do you want to talk to us, tell us any more? okay, hold on whoa, whoa, whoa. we re done. unless you want to talk to us, we re done. i ll talk, i ll talk, whatever not whatever. we want to hear i ll talk. i said i ll talk. i m awake, i m listening, i m reactive. coming up the interrogation, act two. an actor confessing what he says was his role that need at sam s apartment. dan says he could see two gunshot wounds? that s when the lightbulb went off. when dateline continues!
i don t know. and that next evening, dan took the stage once again in the musical nine, yet another pitch-perfect performance captured on videotape. you ve sat across from a lot more murderers than i have, but that seems astonishingly sort of cold-blooded and remorseless. it was shocking, and these were two of his so-called friends. it s horrific. it s sad. it s horrific. investigators, of course, wanted to know, what was all this about? what drove dan to do it? your motive behind killing sam was? money and insanity. money and insanity. [laughter] i don t know. i don t know why i did it.
i can believe that i told the police there was somebody, and i probably would have said it with confidence because i trusted dan. when dan returned to the house without sam, rachel says dan was almost frantic. it looked like he was having some sort of panic attack or heart attack. he was like, pacing around the room, holding his heart, leaning up against the wall. rachel says dan told her he needed to go to his parents house to get his things. he returned in time for them to head to the theater for that night s show. and by all accounts, both dan and rachel s performances in nine that evening were on their marks. maybe even too good. during this emotional scene on stage, captured on this video, rachel broke down in tears. some of her fellow cast members
atm card and agreed to withdraw the maximum allowed amount each day just as his friend had asked him to. his friend also said it was fine to order a couple of pizzas. your alarm s going off in your head. but you re hearing his voice on the phone telling you, it s okay. it s legal. a teenager, i i really, really trusted him. who was this friend? wesley said it was someone he respected. an actor who d taught him theater. it was a good bond. you know, an older dude that i looked up to. an older cat. and was, like, definitely someone i talked to about certain things in my life. the actor s name? dan wozniak. sam herr s neighbor. what could he possibly have to do with any of this? coming up busy acting and just days away from getting married definitely excited, but a lot of stress.
after the murder, and then only under duress. no. i had nothing to do with this because my life was in danger with my wife. i m sorry. how was your life in danger? he threatened it. we re going to give you time to think. all right? listen to me. yes, sir. all right. stand up. we re going to go back in there. detectives were frustrated but we were still hoping to find sam and thought he was going to lead us to sam. it sounds like you thought dan was telling you the truth about everything except where sam was. we were taking him at his word because he was involving himself, incriminating himself, as an accessory in this homicide. he wasn t telling you, i don t know anything about it. right. he was just saying, yeah, you know, i helped him, but i helped him after the fact, and i don t know where he is. right. but the longer he went on, the less believable his story was. and now also strongly believed that not only was dan covering for sam, but dan was also