lot more than just a witness. she was very important to this case. yes, she was. 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 fairs 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 can 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
one of the shots was to the back of sam s head. so sam is laying here and michael is right on top of him basically giving him the final shot? he would have had to have been. that s what the evidence indicates. one shot might have been an accident. not the three or four shots that he actually fired. that was not accident at all. but detectives wanted to know if this wasn t an accident, why then did michael shoot sam? got all these pieces to the puzzle and you try to fit them all together. that s when michael revealed something that would turn the case on its head. he told detectives about an affair. but it wasn t the affair between sam and dianne. it was an affair he was having with the victim s wife, danielle dreher. they had been having an affair for four years. it was a mind-spinning moment. detectives had just discovered the victim, sam, had been cheating on his wife, danielle. now they were learning danielle had also been cheating on sam.
would you expect? why now, though, really? why now? well, after she was outed in 2003, and she issued that written statement, in the years that followed people were writing about her in their books and she finally decided she w t wanted to own her own story. she saw things that were not true, and she felt that in order to find closure for herself she needed to put down in writing what she had experienced. when i asked her if she regretted the affair, she said it wasn t the affair she regretted. it was holding on to the secret because that just ate her up for so long. great of you to come over, meredith. i can t wait to see it tonight. meredith s entire exclusive interview airs on rock center with brian williams tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on nbc. if you ve been following this story, a chilling phone call from the social worker who dropped josh powell s two boys off at his house just moments before the fire that killed them. more of that harrowing recording
well, one of your friends, i believe, commented on it after the fact you didn t have an affair with the president. you had a play date. it did seem a little bit like that. i think maybe i reminded him of a wrung er time in his life. and as implausible as it seems today sometimes she actually spent the night with him it at the white house. did you start to get the sense that people within the white house knew what was going on? secret service might have known, but nobody ever talked to me about it. did you feel at any point guilty about the relationship? i should have felt guilty. he was married to mrs. kennedy, but i didn t at the time feel guilty because i think i felt this closeness to him. several people tied to the jfk administration confirm she was an intern and had special access to the president. but what makes her story so sad, one of the things, she always believed that she was special. she never realized there were other women in his life at the same time. she o
an explosive tell-all from a former intern of president john f. kennedy hit store shelves today. it s once upon a secret and it was written by mimi alfred. meredith vieira sat down with her in an exclusive interview and is here to tell us more about the story. it airs tonight, a new time for rock center with brian williams. i don t know what it is, we are still so fascinated by john f. kennedy. she seems like a compelling woman. very compelling and credible this is a secret she spoke for 50 years, never spoke publicly about it. she was actually outed in a book back in 2003. and at that point she issued a written statement saying, yes, i am the mimi who had the affair with jfk.