with speeds up to 10 gigs to the most small businesses. so you can be ready for what s next. get started with internet and voice for $64.99 a month. and ask how to add securityedge™. or, ask how to get up to an $800 prepaid card. . i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. he told me he loved me. i told him i loved him. he said he would be right back. i could hear a commotion of some sort and then i remember hearing gunshots. to see him lying there, it was bad. it s the website where lovers go to meet. and cheat. this was someone looking to have an affair. but this affair was about so much more than deceit. you couldn t write this as a movie. you couldn t write this as a
dianne revealed that she knew sam intimately. she admitted that they were boyfriend and girlfriend. she had stated that they had had only been dating for a few months, and stated that they were in love. so sam was having an affair. yes. which is why sam was at the apartment complex that day. there s some infidelity going on and there s a reason a cause for concern. did you ever think that you d be the kind of person to have an affair? no. dianne told the detectives her affair with sam started as affairs so often do, with an innocent encounter at a bar. he asked me, you know, like if i was married and had kids. and i told him that i was and that no kids. i m like what about you? he said yes, married. in fact, sam had been married for 13 years. but according to dianne, it took just a month for sam to fall in love with her. and she said, the feelings were mutual. what was it about him that
made you fall so hard? he was just the most thoughtful person. he was just comforting. and i just couldn t wait to the always just be around him. did you still feel a little guilty? oh, yes. but dianne said there were already issues in her marriage. i just thought if i m doing this, my marriage is definitely already over. a few months after the affair began, she decided it was time to tell her husband she wanted a divorce. i remember just saying we need to talk. nobody ever wants to hear that. and he looked at me. he said, are you having an affair? wow. and i said, no. why didn t you just be honest at that point? i didn t want to hurt him. what came next? we both got very emotional and he agreed to it. then came the shooting.
cheating on his wife, danielle. now they were learning danielle had also been cheating on sam. everybody here is involved with somebody else. it was interesting to say the least. and challenging for detectives who now had to contend with a second affair. michael minor, the plumber, 13 years younger than danielle, told them the two had met on ashley madison, a website for husbands and wives looking to cheat. the website s slogan? life is short, have an affair. this was someone looking to have an affair. they both were. yeah. but michael insisted this was no casual fling. after all, the affair had lasted four years. what s more, he told detectives he had fallen in love with
probably, the most overarching motive was just jealousy. despite the fact that she was conducting an affair of her own, i think that she was just completely enraged that sam started stepping out on her as well. reporter: but in order to prove that in court, fraivillig felt she would need something she didn t yet have a statement from michael saying danielle acted as his accomplice. so she waited, thinking time would compel him to come forward and admit danielle was involved. he never did. michael maintained danielle played no role in sam s murder. was this possibly a twisted act of chivalry? i think that certainly one of his motivations, if not his sole motivation, was trying to protect the woman that he loved. reporter: did you say to him, why are you protecting her? yes. and he said i m not. he said, i m not protecting her. we were hoping he would contact us through his lawyers and said, hey, i want to tell