wave us down. and so i get out and i walk up to the car window and tell them, you know, dan s been arrested, yada, yada, yada. and he freaks out and has this like look of fear in his eye. a short time later, her phone rang. it was dan calling from his jail cell. the call recorded by police. what did you do? i helped sam cover some stuff up and helped him get some drugs. that s it. i didn t murder anybody. babe, why on earth would you try and cover for him? because we needed the money. no. we never need money. we need to be good people and just have each other. i m sorry. rachel revealed she had new information for detectives. my mom s working on canceling all the wedding plans now. and i just talked to tim, and i need to make a phone call to the detectives now. why?
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. this is my life. this is my entire future. and i have nothing to hide, and i m innocent. coming up rachel the actress or rachel the accomplice? that conversation between the two of them felt rehearsed? yeah, and i was expecting, oh my god, what did you do. rachel the actress? or rachel the accomplice? police and prosecutors don t
phone and then drove to the theater to face an audience. in this video, shot by a cast member s husband that very night, you can see dan and his fiancee rachel performing in the musical nine. this was a different theater from where sam herr s body now lay. and dan, who had just committed murder hours earlier, showed no signs of stress as he played the starring role apparently effortlessly. dan told police that during the show, backstage, he texted julie from sam s phone pretending to be sam. those were the odd texts that interrupted julie s dinner at her brother s house. i was saying, you need to come over tonight. you need to come over tonight. uh-huh. no sex, just i need you to come over tonight. after his twin performances, one onstage, and the other as sam herr, dan drove back to the apartment complex and waited. julie arrived, wearing the tiara her brother had given her that evening. i said like, sam just called me, and he was going through some stuff. she said, yeah,
so who is rachel buffett? she says just a wannabe actress with some very realistic dreams. there s a gazillion movies made about the blonde that comes from oklahoma to be a famous movie star. it s a dime a dozen in l.a., you know? but it was still something i liked to do, so i continued doing it. and in the course of doing what she loved, she met dan. he actually fell for me first. and at the time he was he had already kind of become my best friend, and i was hanging out with him so often. he eventually professed his love and asked her to give him a chance. to win your heart? something like that, yeah. and he did win her over. he proposed, and she said yes. i wasn t head over heels in
and i have to go tell the detectives the truth. no. baby, baby, tim did speak up? only to me so far, and it was in passing. i said i m going to the police station right now, danny s been arrested. and he starts freaking out. he was really frantic and he said something and something slipped that he had evidence. no, don t, don t, don t, don t, don t. that can t be found. dan sounded desperate. no, babe. i m going to do it. listen to me, no, no. what? trust me, please. dan begged rachel to come back to the police station. he said he was about to do something that was going to change everything, and he wanted rachel to be there for it. i have to tell the truth on what i did. and i think you know what it is. and it s bad.