i looked up to him as, you know, my director and as a fellow actor. dan directed tessia in her high school play. she says the students all loved him. i ve worked with many directors, and he was by far my favorite to work with. he was professional and knew what he was doing. but it seemed that acting was what dan wozniak was built for. he was incredible. and you know, with all the one on one teaching he, you know, gave us as actors, it was right on. dan was prominent and very active in the local community theater world said his fiancee rachel buffett. it s hard to fill the male roles in non-paid community theater. so he would get a lot of roles, do a lot of theater. much more than i ever did. that s how dan and rachel
very painless. when the detective explained what he planned to do with the dna sample, dan paid very close attention. you re being up front with us, you re being honest, you have nothing to do with anything. there should be no reason why we should find your dna anywhere in certain areas and stuff like that. that s why we re doing it. now, i was in sam s apartment friday afternoon. okay. and i know i did use the bathroom. you did use the bathroom. i used the bathroom. and i went i m not sure if i went out on the patio or not. most of the time i do. but that day i don t know if i did or not. okay. okay. dan seemed worried they might find his dna in sam s apartment. detectives wanted to know why. and the tone of the interview changed. i think you know a little more about this thing than you re divulging to us. no, i don t. i think there s a little, a whole lot more.
where do you think sam s at now? like i said, the last place that i saw him, honestly now, was when i dropped him off at the los altos shopping center, bellflower and spring, in long beach. dan was cooperative, but he said he didn t know where sam was. he can t tell you the location or he won t tell you the location? didn t know at that point. thought he wasn t going to tell us. didn t want to. so they applied a little more pressure. what we re going to do is, this is a swab. we need to get a swab from you just to eliminate you. should only take a second here. oh, eliminate me? yeah, eliminate you from any, uh, any issues. okay. and that s why i want to get a sample from your saliva. just to eliminate you, okay. okay. i mean it s in your best interests. so basically just open your mouth for me. that s it. that s it. oh, okay. very painless.
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 perhaps involved somehow in julie s murder. they tried again. go ahead and have a seat. they brought dan back to the interview room for one more crack at him. but dan didn t waver. i told you what happened to sam. i dropped him off. and then a reality check. you re arrested for murder, 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
love, but i was okay with it. rachel said money was tight for the young couple. you know, neither of us had career jobs or anything. so yeah, money was always up and down and hard to get. but rachel says she and dan continued to plan for that may wedding, and that her parents said they d foot the bill. my parents are traditional, and they were going to pay for it. of course, that wedding never happened. one week before their scheduled nuptials, on friday, may 21st, 2010, the day dan wozniak told police he murdered sam herr, rachel says her fiance was acting strangely. he said he had borrowed money to pay the rent, and he had borrowed it from loan sharks and 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. 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