somebody set fire to haley s motel. i am sure my mouth was hanging open. just going, can this get any more bizarre. what was this all about? we just didn t know. dead or alive, where was subpoena? coming up, sabrina s husband. that 100,000 policy. wasn t the whole story? came up later that it was 300,000. money, a motive, or maybe just jealousy. i had been caught having sex and room 11 at haley s motel. when dateline continues. teline continues a place where everyone lives life well-protected. and even when things go a bit wrong, we ve got your back. here, things work the way you wish they would.
do have the option of refiling at some in the future. but at this point, jill has never convicted of any crime in connection to vern s death. if it wasn t for jill putting it all together, helping daniel put the pieces together, this may not have happened. i think that s, uh, criminal. it s y know, shouldn t have happened. she, in my opinion, definitely got away with murder. and when you walk out of this interview, she might be standing on the street. yeah. y know never know. it crosses my mind. reporter: we wanted to talk to jill taylor. and it turned out, she wanted to talk with us to tell us a story of betrayal. but in her telling, she s the one who was betrayed. when we sat down with jill, she d been out of jail for about three months, claiming she was
there s probable cause to think that you are an accomplice and that s why you re under arrest. within hours, detectives had adriana s boyfriend in custody as well. through an interpreter, luis gomez-monges too initially told a story about adriana contacting vern to sell a mobile home. that s bull you re you re telling me lies. and adriana started off tellin me the same lies. she said that you hit the guy from behind when he wasn t even looking. no. i don t think that your story is gonna hold up. you are under arrest for the attempted murder of vernon holbrook. reporter: detectives were convinced they had the two people who d attacked vern that saturday in may. but they also knew, or thought they knew, there was a lot more to the story. these suspects certainly weren t trained hired assassins. they were so clumsy they d even used their own phone.
was having none of it. you re obviously sticking to your story, but i do not believe it. so at this time i m going to tell you that you are under arrest for the attempted first degree murder of vernon holbrook. reporter: and for the first time and stand up. put your hands behind your back. daniel blizzard s demeanor changed. he was definitely surprised and he looked like he might be ill. what went through your mind when police told you that they had arrested daniel blizzard? thank god. finally. relief. yeah. reporter: it sounded like a case neatly tied up. two attackers linked to a man with motive and millions to gain. but that wasn t the whole story. there was someone else involved, the detective believed, someone else who had betrayed vern s trust. and to say it was someone close to vern would be an understatement. in fact it s someone you ve already met. coming up arrest number four. satisfaction? huge satisfaction. reporter: is about to split the family
estate. i know a couple people that used to work there. who s that? daniel? what goes through your mind when she says that? well the bells and whistles definitely start going off. reporter: bells and whistles because after vern had been assaulted, his family had flooded detectives with calls. so you sit down and you start thinking to yourselves, who d wanna hurt him? one person. his name is daniel blizzard. reporter: daniel blizzard. that ambitious agent to whom vern was going to sell the company. someone vern had once trusted. did you think daniel had something to do with it? well, yeah i was pretty sure. reporter: why, with zero proof, would so many believe blizzard was behind the attack? detective perrault soon heard a story that went like this, in the fall of 2008, vern called employees like bookkeeper judy craven to a meeting.