so who was it? cops staked out the atm hoping the mystery man would return. they also went to the pizza parlor where an employee told them that he thought he knew the person who bought the pizza and the detectives got a possible address. we re set up at that point on the house. we have surveillance teams behind the house on each corner of the house. we re geared up. we got our raid vests on. reporter: while surveillance teams hoped and waited, detectives questioned people in sam s circle. neighbors rachel buffett and her fiance dan wozniak already knew about the body found in sam s apartment. we had discussed the idea that maybe being an accident. but like i said earlier, sam seemed like a pretty intelligent person. if it was an accident, he wouldn t have like taken off and like left his apartment and like tried to run. reporter: both rachel and dan told the detectives the last time they saw sam was friday, the day before the murder.
just saying, yeah, i lied to you. and i m in trouble now. and i owe bad people money. and, you know, i m going to get hurt. reporter: rachel says she saw sam herr that day leaving the apartment with dan. but remember, she and dan both told police sam had last been seen with a third man. a guy in a black hat. rachel now says she never claimed to have seen that person with her own eyes. when dan and sam left, there was no third person with them? i was under the impression that there was a third person. i heard about that person. reporter: from dan? i believe so. that s how i remember it now. reporter: but at the time, police say, rachel did say she saw the nonexistent third man. it s a major reason she was charged as an accessory. you know, of course, that the issue of the third person is a
they were saying that i shot both of them and decapitated one of them. it s not true. reporter: 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? reporter: 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. reporter: you think she knows more than she s saying? oh, definitely. reporter: just what did rachel know? i asked her. this is my name. this is my life. this is my entire future. and i have nothing to hide, and i m innocent.
detectives were you essentially doing dan s work for him? no, i was not. that was the way he set it up made that the obvious conclusion that everybody should look for sam. the police were doing that, too. and me, as an outsider, would assume that that was a logical thing to do. reporter: did you at any time make any statement or take any specific action to shield dan from scrutiny or suspicion? not in any way. reporter: police and prosecutors don t believe you were honest with them. mm-hmm. reporter: were you honest with them? i was. i know my heart, and god knows my heart. and that s my comfort is god s in control, and god knows i m innocent. i never tried to help dan wozniak. i told the truth to the best of my capability to try to help the police get to the bottom of things.
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