she was living with a firefighter, as a matter of fact. one of my brother s supposed fire brothers. reporter: what s your advice to this guy, this firefighter? watch your back, you know. the last two guys involved with danielle, one s dead, one s in prison. reporter: as for dianne, she s now left to reflect on a life with sam that could have been. did you two talk about marriage? yes. reporter: and was that in the cards? oh, absolutely. reporter: did you ever feel like i m being punished for having this affair? oh, yes. i might have said those exact words myself. reporter: it all started in a club with an innocent conversation. mm-hmm. reporter: was it all worth it? falling in love with sam? i would never change having met sam. reporter: was he the one? he was the one. without a doubt. he still is the one.
this affair became a game. a wife and her lover spying on her husband and his lover. he would just say, well, what else have they done. and then this spy game turned deadly. one of the four lovers was gunned down this obviously was not something that was random. waiting at the scene, a man with a strange story and waiting for detectives, a strange video. how creepy was that video. very creepy. very creepy. al affair to remember. he was the one. an affair to forget. i shouldn t have done it. and one more secret still to be revealed. she said i need you to sit down. i have something to tell you. the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. i m lester holt and this is dateline. here s andrea canning with
danielle candidly described it as troubled. we had been not getting along for many months. danielle also explained that she knew sam was having an affair despite sam s best efforts to conceal it. dull know where he went today? today? i m sure he went to his girlfriend s, yeah. but he always goes to her house. i m not surprised by that. danielle then admitted she too was unfaithful. she was pretty straightforward, told me about the affair. it was wrong. i shouldn t have done it. nobody should cheat. little by little, the detectives led danielle to believe they were focusing their investigation on her lover michael. so it would kind of shock you if michael went and confronted him? yeah. that s what happened. really? and we have michael. do you? it wasn t the reaction the detective was expecting. he found her tone to be strangely flat and unemotional. that was troubling to me. that was disturbing to me. i cannot believe he did this.
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?
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. mike 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 danielle into it was like i really found my soul mate. man, it was so thunder bolt. i really had every intention of marrying this girl. he was smitten. i mean, he was totally obsessed with her and in love with her. he went on to say that on the day of the shooting, he decided it was finally time to talk to