dan proposed marriage to his leading lady. the night of julie s murder, dan and rachel were performing together in another musical called nine. you can see their chemistry in this video shot by the husband of one of the other cast members. tessia, who went to see the play on closing night, said that dan carried the show. he was on an after-show high. we all were. we were excited for him, he did an amazing job. he came out and greeted us and we were just laughing and hugging him. and with their wedding in less than a week. definitely excited, but a lot of stress because i was doing everything myself. he was that typical guy that wasn t interested in like the details of planning a wedding? there was a couple things, you know, like, oh i don t know. like make sure we don t have only chicken marsala or, you know, like random stuff like
splitting her pants with a pair of scissors. the next morning, he said, he returned to the theater with an ax and a saw. dan used those, he said, for the gruesome task of dismembering sam s body to make it harder to identify him. dan said he scattered some of sam s remains at a local park. but sam s torso, he told them, was still in the attic of the theater. okay. what was going on in your mind when you were dismembering the body? dismembering sam s body? i was actually smiling and laughing. okay. why do you think you were doing that? i don t know. i reached a point to where i couldn t even believe that i was doing this.
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? 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.
your repeating that story is being taken by police and prosecutors as an example of you continuing to advance a narrative that your boyfriend set up to make the murder happen. well, two things. i told them that, yeah, dan said it, but also i think sam confirmed it. like sam also told me that or confirmed it in some way. i don t understand why people think it s odd that i would use the same language or terminology that dan had used. because obviously i d heard it, you know. detectives also wondered why, when they spoke to rachel after julie s murder, did she ask police whether they had looked into whether sam had killed julie? when you met with detectives you asked them, did you look at sam? are you examining sam as a suspect? which was at the time exactly the theory that dan wanted the
sam had a flip phone which had a very different look from dan s smartphone. you never noticed that the phone he was texting on was not his regular phone? no, i didn t. and then there was the couple s shared computer in the apartment. the computer on which police later found searches for how to hide a body and quick ways to kill people. you ever see any indication that he had searched for anything relating to murder or violence or how to cover up a murder? no, i did not. 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? uh-huh. that caused police to question another part of rachel s story. that she didn t see dan leave the apartment that night.