1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: Please be advised this story contains adult content and graphic language. 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 1: It's called it being recorded and made monitored. Baby, are 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: you sitting down? Yeah? You don't think any left to 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 1: me after I tell you this good That is not 5 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: a good story, Okay, but you need to know. I 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:24,760 Speaker 1: called them and head looked good down to the theater 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: on the bay and I had my dad done fully loaded, 8 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: and when I took him up into the attic, I 9 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: shot him two times in the back of the head. 10 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: It's a horrifying story that drew national media attention, and 11 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: it grabbed me unlike any other murder case I had 12 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: covered as an investigative reporter. It all started in the 13 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: spring of two thousand ten Buffett and wasn'tiac Both community 14 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: theater actors were starring in the play nine, but police 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: say on the same day the couple performed in the 16 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: play Wasniak Lord his neighbor, twenty six year old college 17 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 1: student Sam Hair, who had recently returned from a tour 18 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:13,479 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, into the theater and shot him. Wosniak allegedly 19 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: then dismembered the body. The motive for the killing reportedly 20 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: to steal hair savings account The night of the murders, 21 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: Hair's father went to his apartment. He found the body 22 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: of twenty three year old Julie Cabawishi, a friend and 23 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: classmate of Harrors. She had also been shot and there 24 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: was evidence of a sexual assault. Welcome to sleuth. I'm 25 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: Linda Sawyer. It was winter and I was in Long Beach, California, 26 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: covering a new story for a TV show called Crime 27 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: Watch Daily. It was a profile piece on a psychologist 28 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: who's patients, believe it or not, were some of the 29 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: most infamous serial killers in the eighties. After my interview 30 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: with Dr von der Pelto, she invited me to stay 31 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: for a Christmas gathering at her house that evening. It 32 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: was Friday, December four, and rather than face the l 33 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: A traffic at rush hour, I thought, why not have 34 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 1: a little eggnog and some holiday cheer. The guests arrived, 35 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: and soon the word was out that I was a 36 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:31,959 Speaker 1: crime reporter. And when that happens, people inevitably love to 37 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: tell me some local story or an unsolved mystery. But 38 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: I couldn't have been less prepared for what I was 39 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: about to hear from a gentleman who once owned the 40 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,519 Speaker 1: Liberty Theater, which was located on a local military base 41 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: in Los Alamitos, California. Dan Wasniak was in some of 42 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: our Liberty Theater musicals. He was a friend of our 43 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: daughter Alison, and definitely someone we trusted. We liked him, 44 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: everybody liked them, so I have no idea why he 45 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: would have killed his friend that dismembered him in the 46 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: attic of my theater. There were two shows that I 47 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: did there. One was Charlie's Aunt and the other one 48 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: was Arsenic and Old Lace. I played Carrie Grant's character, 49 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: so a lot of fun. It was the case of 50 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 1: a real life Phantom of the Opera on MA Daniel Wazniak, 51 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: a Southern California community theater actor, in between stage performances, 52 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: killed his friends and chopped up their bodies in the 53 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: attic of the theater prior to and after his showtime. 54 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: And his reason he wanted to drain his victim's bank 55 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: accounts so he could finance his upcoming honeymoon with his fiance, 56 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: Rachel Buffett. Rachel was also an actress and a former 57 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: Disney princess who often played alongside Dan in musicals. You see, 58 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: his role was made for you. I don't want to 59 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: play an I have not as you have three downright 60 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: loss but those are is aren't exactly knocking down my goal. 61 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: I lost something, but I don't know what. I know. 62 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 1: You can help me finds. I was never that is 63 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: what you imagine, but it was always you. He would 64 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: get a lot of roles, do a lot of theater, 65 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 1: much more than I ever did. There's a gazillion movies 66 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: made about the blonde that comes from Oklahoma to be 67 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: a famous movie star. It's a dime a dozen in 68 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: l A, you know, but it's still something I like 69 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: to do, so I continue doing it. Listen to Daniel 70 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: the actor speak about his young victims. The two victims 71 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: were two of my close friends, um Sam and Julie. 72 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: Sam lived in the same complex that me and my 73 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: fiance I lived out. The helped me out on several occasions. 74 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 1: Just he was there for me when you know I 75 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,239 Speaker 1: needed him. And Julie was just a friend in the group, 76 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,559 Speaker 1: just very to the nicest people, to the nicest people 77 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: that I've ever known. So wait he kills them. He 78 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,239 Speaker 1: talks about how great they were, and then he kills 79 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: them for money. Who is this guy? I had to 80 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: know more. I was stunned to learn that while the 81 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: murders took place five years earlier, the trial itself was 82 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: about to begin that following Monday, December seven. Fast forward 83 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: to and I haven't left Orange County since. So I 84 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: started seeking out his high school friends that knew Daniel 85 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: was nia prior to his time with his fiancee Rachel. 86 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: It was a time. Friends tell me that Daniel didn't 87 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 1: do drugs, he didn't steal for food, he didn't really 88 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: do too much of anything that didn't make his parents 89 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: really proud. Everyone that talked to me about him from 90 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 1: his high school years said, he's really a totally decent guy. 91 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 1: Pre Rachel, Daniel was often referred to by those that 92 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: knew him as this happy, go lucky theater geeky, this goofy, 93 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: friendly guy who you know, didn't have his act together. 94 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: You know, I literally I just saw him as this 95 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: this sweet kid who um, you know, trying to make 96 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: something doing his bass. How is this man that I 97 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: watched in court every day at his murder trial? How 98 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: is he the same guy that his friends described to 99 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 1: me as this fun, generous, kind person that always made 100 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: them laugh. And those same friends said to me, there's 101 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: no way they can reconcile it either that it was there, Dan, 102 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: who was the kind of person that could murder and 103 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: mutilate friends while not missing a mark on stage. I 104 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: knew I had to stick around and find the answers, 105 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: so I moved in and spent time getting to know 106 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: the various people of interest in this story. I mean, 107 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: after all, it's these people who are in the know. 108 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: They had the answers, and like pieces of a very 109 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: intricate puzzle, I was hoping to connect them all. On January, 110 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: Daniel Patrick Wozniak was sentenced to death, and today he 111 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: sits on San Quentin's death row. But my investigation only 112 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: grew deeper. Why Because I suspected there were other accomplices 113 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: that were walking free, accomplices that the courts knew about, 114 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: that the police knew existed, and I had to find 115 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: out why they weren't being charged. I wondered, what kind 116 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: of justice is this for the victims families? You Dan 117 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,559 Speaker 1: are coward. My only regret that in this state won't 118 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: let me kill this coward myself. You took my daughter's beautiful, caring, 119 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: loving daughters precious left to cover up your highness and 120 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: planned crime. During the trial, Daniel was Sniak reached out 121 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: to me on a call from his jail cell. It 122 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: was during the penalty phase of his trial, and he 123 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: told me that one of his victims, Julie Kibuishi, was 124 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: supposed to be killed while he was still performing on stage. 125 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: So who was supposed to carry out this murder? I 126 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: had to find out, And after spending time at some 127 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: pretty shady local haunts where Daniel and his older brother 128 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: Tim was Nia hung out, I found evidence I couldn't 129 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: ignore and I just talked to him and I need 130 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: to make a phone called the detective now because Kin's involved. 131 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: I need to call the detective first, because I need 132 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 1: to call him and by him now before they catched 133 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 1: me on this recording device, because it looks like I'm 134 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,719 Speaker 1: not trying to tell him right away. Him said he 135 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: has evidence with them or there he knew where it 136 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: was or something. Yeah, do you know that Tim had 137 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: some evidence? Oh good, oh god, oh god. Okay, that's 138 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: a ridiculous, And I have to go tell the detectives 139 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: in here. Um Kim Kim good speak up only to 140 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: me so far, and it was in casting. I thought, 141 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to believe taking right now. Danny's interrupted and 142 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 1: he starts freaking out, and he's really frantic, and he 143 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: said something, and something slips that he had evidence, so 144 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: I have to I don't, don't, don't, don't, can't get done. No, babe, 145 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. All of Daniel's friends tell me 146 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: he changed ever since she entered his life, and everyone 147 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 1: that knew them as a couple say Rachel was in 148 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 1: charge and she called the shots. Yet Daniel was still 149 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 1: obsessed to be with Rachel no matter what. If I 150 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 1: was given the opportunity to talk to my fiance right now, 151 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: I'd either say can I be with you out there? 152 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: Can you be with me in here? I mean the bond. 153 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: I just love her like that's that's the hardest part 154 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: about getting through my day. It's just no one that 155 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: I can't be with her period. It's you know, it's 156 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: it's it says absence makes the heart group, wonder does 157 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: it really does? Yet all indications were that Rachel did 158 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: not return that same love, not at all. She actually 159 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 1: told police early Thursday morning after Daniel's arrest the night before. Now, 160 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 1: remember this is just two nights before their wedding was 161 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,839 Speaker 1: supposed to take place. She told police that Daniel was 162 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: a lousy lover and furthermore, he didn't have much to 163 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: work with down below. What a thing to say about 164 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: your future husband. He actually fell for me first, and 165 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 1: um at the time he was he had already kind 166 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: of become my best friend, and I was hanging out 167 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: with them so often. I wasn't head over heels in love, 168 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: but I was okay with him. Halfway through the trial, 169 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,079 Speaker 1: I learned from a source about the existence of a 170 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 1: letter written by a notorious Orange count, a Gelhouse informant 171 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:07,559 Speaker 1: named Fernando Perez. Perez was housed next to Daniel Waznia Excel. 172 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: He said he had a conversation with Daniel and he 173 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: wrote about that conversation to Detective Jose Morales, telling him 174 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: that in this conversation with Daniel, Daniel confided in him, 175 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: saying that Rachel knew about the plan to murder Sam 176 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,959 Speaker 1: for his money, and her alleged response to Daniel was 177 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: do whatever you have to do to make us happy. 178 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: So with any good true crime saga, this one has 179 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 1: it all. Intrigue, greed, lust, love, jealousy, and of course 180 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: the sex tape with an old flame who came back 181 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: into Dan's life for one last fling. The story opens 182 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 1: with a father's discovery of a dead body in his 183 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: missing son's apartment. That father is Steve Hare. He's a 184 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,599 Speaker 1: retired teacher who has a very special relationship with his 185 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: only son, Sam. What I would do is I would 186 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: go over Sam's apartment once or twice a week after work. 187 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: I drive over there because it was closer to his place. 188 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: We will go to the gym and we would work out. 189 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: After workout, Sam, who was known for his volumeless appetite, 190 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: we'd go out and gets on the eat and then 191 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,559 Speaker 1: we go back to his place and just kick back 192 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: and watch him TV. Father son time. We were best 193 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: friends as well as dad and son. And don't forget 194 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: once he got out of the army, he's not a 195 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 1: kid anymore. You're able to talk to your child a 196 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: man to man and these are very very important times, 197 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: but fun times. So boy, I could just tell you 198 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 1: that Sam and I were best buddies. On Sam Hair's 199 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:55,599 Speaker 1: return from his three year military tour in Afghanistan, he 200 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: decided to move into the Camden Martinique apartments, a complex 201 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 1: right us from the Orange Coast College. Sam enrolled there 202 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,079 Speaker 1: so he could earn a diploma with the hopes that 203 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: he would someday become a military officer. The Camden apartments 204 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: in Coasta Mesa, California were very much like a dorm, 205 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: with nearly all of Sam's neighbors enrolled into college across 206 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: the street. It was there he met his newest friend, 207 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:25,319 Speaker 1: Reuben Menacho, who himself was a former Marine, and the 208 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,839 Speaker 1: two of them hit it off. Damn told me that 209 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: he was going to do something that Friday. The night 210 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 1: before we went out to dinner, Sam, Julie and I 211 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: and so we went out to dinner. After dinner, we 212 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 1: had a great time. He took some price from me, 213 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: which how you really don't like people take photo eight 214 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: out of my bake. But that wasn't given to Sam. Yeah, 215 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: that's he didn't. He used to do that just to 216 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: piss me off to people would say he would literally 217 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: order it, would never order an entree. He'd ordered just 218 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: like a side of fries and then would wipe up 219 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: every body else's place. You're going to eat that? Are 220 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: you gonna finish that? Like the flour? They even thought 221 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: about being done. It's like you're done with that, you know, 222 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 1: And and all of a sudden he had a full meal, 223 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 1: and I was he paid for some friends. Yes, he is. 224 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 1: After Sam's night out with his friends, he mentioned to 225 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: Reuben that he promised someone he'd helped them with an 226 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: errand the next afternoon and Ruben had to remind him 227 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: that their mutual friend Dave Barnhard was hosting a beach barbecue. 228 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: Sam assured him that he'd make it after he was done. 229 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: Friday came, we went to the beach day was having 230 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: a barbecue with his family, UM a couple of friends. 231 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: And when I started asking for Sam, nobody knew where 232 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: he was at. So Sam was invited to this barbecue. 233 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: He was supposed to be there, Yes, I believe so. 234 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: I mean if I was there, then he must have 235 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: been invited, because they never invited me to something without Sam. 236 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: So and I did ask the guys about Sam, so 237 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: they said, oh, I think Dave told me that he 238 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: was helping out a friend. Even that night we went, 239 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: we went out and had some drinks with the guys, 240 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: and Sam was not found when we were at cam Then. 241 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: I think it was either Jake or Dave that went 242 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: to knock at his door and then nobody was there. 243 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: They came back and said, okay, it was a normal day. 244 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 1: You know, Sam is not answering the phone. But that 245 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: afternoon when he wasn't showing up for the barbecue, you 246 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: were calling him, you were texting, you were trying to 247 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: reach out, and at one point did did someone inswer 248 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: the phone? Yes, there was another person in Lyne that 249 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: answered the phone. And when they answer, it was very windy. 250 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: And I said if he was driving a car or 251 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: standing outside because it was a windy day. But I 252 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: asked him where, I said Sam, and he goes yes, 253 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: And I'm like, they didn't sound like Sam. I was like, 254 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: where are you? What do you sound weird? And he goes, oh, no, 255 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: I'm just having some issues. And he made the mistake 256 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: to say that he was having issues with his father. 257 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: So that was a flag to me because Sam him 258 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: has a great relationship with his father and mother. So 259 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: that immediately gave you pause automatically, and I questioned him. 260 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: When I questioned it more, he hung up and then 261 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: I called again, no answer. I texted, no answer, so 262 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: and that that's when I got a little bit more 263 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: worried and asked, I started asking the guys more question, 264 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: but since they say no, I don't know, so I 265 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: just let it go. But the idea that you know, 266 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: you did kind of press this person and they hung 267 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: up on you really must have heightened your your concern 268 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: at that point, Yes, and hand my concern, but since 269 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: I didn't see it from the other guys, it lowered 270 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: it again. While Reuben was uneasy over the whereabouts of 271 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: his friend Steve Hair, Sam's father was still expecting his 272 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: son to arrive at their home that weekend. It's Friday 273 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: when you had an expectation that your son at some 274 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: point that Friday was going to head up to your 275 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: and your wife's home in Anaheim Hills. Well, what it was. 276 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 1: Raquhel had spoken to Sam around twelve twenty on Friday afternoon, 277 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 1: that was the afternoon of one, and they had mentioned 278 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,360 Speaker 1: Raquel wanted to speak to him, and he said, Mom, 279 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: I'm busy, I'm helping somebody, But we were anticipating Sam 280 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:24,639 Speaker 1: to come over for the weekend. However, knowing Sam, I 281 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: probably I was not expecting him really until Saturday. It 282 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: looks Sam was in a war zone. He was a 283 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: decorated combat veteran. He was an a war zone. He 284 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: would call every two or three months when he got 285 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 1: off the hill, his observation posts and what have you. 286 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: So I certainly not really overly concerned, saying I wonder 287 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: where he is. I wish he'd dropped me a line 288 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: let us know if he's coming or not. By Saturday 289 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: early evening, there's still no word from Sam, So Steve 290 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 1: decides it's time to get in his car and drive 291 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 1: down to Sam's place in Coasta Mesa. I had a 292 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 1: key to his place, so that wasn't an issue. So 293 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: I arrived there approximately nine o'clock and I knocked at 294 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: the door. There was no response. I said, okay, I 295 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 1: have got the key, and I let myself in. I 296 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: opened the door, turned on the lights, livering was fine, 297 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: Everything looked very neat in place. Peeked into the bedroom. 298 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: That's going on, sirs? What once I went into the 299 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 1: apartment and then I saw the body. That's when my 300 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: whole world changed. Dead body? Are you sure, sir? Does 301 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 1: your son know who it is? Okay, we're standing people, sir. 302 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: I've got someone on the way. Okay, I'm just gonna 303 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: get information from you. Are right on Friday May, Julie Kibuishi, 304 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 1: Sam's close friend and tutor, also went missing. Julie's friends 305 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 1: were texting her frantically. It was text after text coming 306 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: in her phone. Hey, Julie, your mom called, Can you 307 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: call me please? Is everything okay? By the next day, 308 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,439 Speaker 1: Julie's mom was desperate. This kind of thing never happened 309 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 1: to my daughter. So we called it police and I said, 310 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care where you find her, 311 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 1: but I need to find her. It's cose to MASA 312 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: detective Michael Cohen who arrives at the crime scene. As 313 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: we walked in, you know, the kitchen look clean. Everything 314 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: looked very clean inside until we went into the bedroom 315 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: or a male. Once we were in the bedroom, we 316 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: had seen a lone female slumped over the bed that 317 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: appeared to have a gunshot wound to the back of 318 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: her head. Initially, we saw blood and it appeared to 319 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: us that it looked like some type of either blood 320 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:54,239 Speaker 1: force object had hit her or it could have been 321 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: a gunshot, when we weren't sure initially at first from 322 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: our initial investigation until we found more later. She was 323 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: bent over the bed actually with her knees partially on 324 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 1: the ground. Her torso was slumped over on top of 325 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: the bed, almost like in a kneeling position. Her pants 326 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:17,959 Speaker 1: were somewhat ripped and pulled down. It appeared to us 327 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: like maybe there was a sexual assault that had gone bad. Yes, 328 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: in the bedroom, but there's some such activities. There's the 329 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 1: one call was from Sam, her father, and he was 330 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 1: looking for his son also, so we felt that Sam 331 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: was on the run and had maybe had some involvement 332 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: with this homicide. For June and Massa Kabuishi, they both 333 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 1: feared that fateful knock at their door. It's any parents 334 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,159 Speaker 1: worth nightmare, and it was Detective Michael Cohen's job to 335 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: deliver the news. My partner and I when we had 336 00:20:54,800 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 1: to make the death notification to Kibayashi family, it was 337 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: tough because we had a young girl who was twenty 338 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: three years old, and now we had to make contact 339 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: with her parents. My partner and I drove over to Mr. 340 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 1: And Mrs Kubayashi's home, knocked on the door and made 341 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 1: contact with her and her husband. Once we walked in, 342 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: they had to sit down on a couch, which I 343 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,640 Speaker 1: remember still to this day. They sat down. I then 344 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 1: proceeded to tell Mr. And Mrs Kubyashi that we had 345 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: located their daughter and an apartment complex in Costa Mesa, 346 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 1: and that she had been basically murdered. When I made 347 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 1: that statement, two Mr and Mrs Kubayashi, Mrs Kubyashi basically 348 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 1: just broke down and started crying. Her husband tried to 349 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: calm her down, and we we tried to calm her down, 350 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,679 Speaker 1: which we finally were able to after a few minutes. 351 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: And it was just a very tough situation. When you 352 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: see the pairs become so emotional, and as detectives, and 353 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 1: not only as detectives, but as fathers of having our 354 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: own children, you start thinking about how you would react 355 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: to that type of situation. Julie was loved by everyone 356 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: who knew her. She was a talented dancer and a 357 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: budding fashion maven, and she was also really smart, which 358 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 1: is why Sam's parents said. Julie would help Sam often 359 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: with his studies as his tutor. She looked up to him, 360 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: and she was very good at tutor and him in 361 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 1: anthropology and he got in a in that class. I said, 362 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: sim is there anything going on with you and Julie? 363 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: And he says absolutely not that she's like my kid's sister. 364 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: Steve realized that he knew very little about Sam's friends 365 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: at the Camden apartments, but he was certainly determined to 366 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: find out more and to find his son. Okay, I 367 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: got the list of names by calling those few numbers 368 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 1: that I had on my phone of Sam's friends. The 369 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: first two I called were Ruben Menatro and Dave Barnhardt. 370 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: I spoke eventually Dan Moseniack. I spoke to a number 371 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 1: of people, and each one of those people were telling 372 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: me while when the last time they saw Sam, what 373 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 1: did they hear? What do they know? And I took 374 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: it from there and I called for a few hours 375 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: speaking to people, and then I got a few hours sleep, 376 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: and then on Sunday was this was Saturday evening, Saturday night, 377 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,120 Speaker 1: Sunday morning when this was all occurring, got a few 378 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: hours sleep, awoke, and then was out searching again. Steve 379 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: had a feeling that finding Julie's body in Sam's apartment, 380 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 1: combined with Sam's military background and his knowledge of handling guns, 381 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 1: would certainly make Sam a person of interest for the authorities. 382 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,880 Speaker 1: But the other news Steve was about to tell police 383 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,160 Speaker 1: would leave little doubt for them that Sam was their 384 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: reasonable prime suspect and could very easily be on the run. 385 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 1: We put all points Bolton out for him because we thought, 386 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 1: you know, right now, he's our loan suspect. There's nobody 387 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: else that we should be looking for other than him, 388 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: because we can't find him and his father is trying 389 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: to call him and answering his phone. So we felt 390 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: at that point in time he was the initial suspect 391 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,639 Speaker 1: of interest and we need to find the situation at hand. Lawrence, 392 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: you got to speak to the police. What have you 393 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: fill them in on what you know. So they took 394 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: me down to the station and took me to an 395 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: interview room, and of course your whole world is crashing 396 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,880 Speaker 1: around you, and then they started questioning common senses. There's 397 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: a dead body in your child's apartment and your child 398 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,640 Speaker 1: is not there. The first thing I thought, they're gonna 399 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: suspect him, understandably. So so as they were questioning me, 400 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: I said, look, before you find out, I'll let you 401 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 1: know he was involved before. When I say involved, he 402 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: was charged with a murder. So I let them know 403 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: that there was a situation at wouldn't look good for him, 404 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,879 Speaker 1: but I also emphasized that he wouldn't do that. And 405 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: it goes back to I knew he would not harm 406 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: a woman. One name on Steve's list of Sam's buddies 407 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 1: gave Steve his first warning sign it didn't seem right, 408 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: changed his story a little bit, and then I asked him, hey, 409 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 1: you know, have you seen Sam? How was his disposition? 410 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: And and Dan Bosniak said, well, I was nervous, but 411 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: he said no, Sam was even nervous. He was upset. 412 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,400 Speaker 1: And I said, really, like what? And Dan Mosniak said, 413 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: Sam told me he had girl problems and he had 414 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: family problems. If you want to see red flags, lightning bolts, 415 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 1: shooting cannons firing off in Monday night, I went through 416 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 1: the list with Raquel and we looked and since everything 417 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: was being purchased from Long Beach, we looked at the 418 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: list and on that list of about fifteen, there was 419 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 1: one prefix with a Long Beach prefix on a cell 420 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: phones I had the only prefix with Long Beach belonged 421 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: to Dan mos n Steve was always very coopertive and 422 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: had given us information as to when it was being 423 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: taken out, what banks they were being taken out, so 424 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: he was very credible. In fact, Steve mentions that he 425 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 1: can recall you saying to your partner on the way out, gee, 426 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 1: maybe we do have the wrong guy. I think that 427 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: gave him some level of hope, at which point you 428 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: guys went out and got some warrants right for some 429 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: bank statements and yeah, and on those bank statements were 430 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,360 Speaker 1: purchases from Echoes, pizza and Long Beach that were being 431 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: made by whomever had possession of Sam's card at the time. 432 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: That was kind of the breaking of the case. I 433 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: would say, um, and I think a lot of the 434 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: other guys would say the same, because we were able 435 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 1: to track where the pizza was being delivered. We actually 436 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 1: eventually raided that house and was able to talk to 437 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: a young kid and I don't remember his name, with yes, 438 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:03,640 Speaker 1: he mentioned he definitely said that Daniel Wasniac gave the card. 439 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 1: From what I recall, I guess they had an agreement 440 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 1: with each other to go. Wesley was going to get 441 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: money out and give him the money. And but Wesley 442 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: really had no clue as to what was going on 443 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,680 Speaker 1: that all. He knew that he was gonna get a 444 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 1: little something out of it. From Dan Wassniak, and that 445 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: was it. Yeah, he got he got something, all right. 446 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: As I look closer at those bank records, I realized 447 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,199 Speaker 1: that he in fact took four hundred dollars out over 448 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: the weekend himself, even though he told Dan I couldn't 449 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 1: get to it on Saturday. I couldn't get to it 450 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: on Sunday. So yeah, there's there was more to his story. 451 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 1: But you know, he was young and and naive, I 452 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 1: guess enough to think that he could get away with 453 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: what he did. So you know, he's not as innocent 454 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,719 Speaker 1: as people think he is. But you guys needed him, right, 455 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: You needed him for the for the trial, Yes, yes, 456 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 1: we needed him so and he was you know, he 457 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: cooperated with us and it worked out really well for us, 458 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: so having him as a witness on the stand. And 459 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,639 Speaker 1: how did Dan get Sam's pin number to give to 460 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 1: Wesley for the A t M withdrawals? Well, earlier that 461 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: week of the murders, Dan and Rachel faced yet another 462 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: eviction and Sam offered to help with the rent, so 463 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: he brought Dan to his bank a t M. It 464 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: was there Dan focused in and watched while Sam entered 465 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: his pin um. When Adam help me pay for the round. 466 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: I forgot a glance but his bank account number. At 467 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: this point in the investigation, Dan Wozniak was still only 468 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: a suspect that police believe was helping Sam, still on 469 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: the run, but the police wanted to bring him in 470 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 1: for questioning because Dan was their best lead at the time. 471 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 1: And I believe it was Hose that called him to say, 472 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 1: we'd like you to come in and talk at Ed's directive, 473 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: and I think Daniel told Jose, well, he's heading off 474 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: to Tsunami Sushi over in Huntington's Beach because it was 475 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: his bachelor party, right, Yes, that was his bachelor party 476 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: at the sushi place. Just having a great old time 477 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: over there. That's where we contacted him a little bit 478 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: more than contacted. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we um actually, you know, 479 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: relocated there. I initially went inside the bar, just kind 480 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: of playing clothes, walked around. I saw him sitting way 481 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 1: in the back of a kind of like a banquet room. 482 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 1: As he's in there enjoying life and having fun. You know. 483 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: I get on the radio and I trying to call 484 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: I think at the time it was at Everett believe 485 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: m was Keith Davis with a learner, other sergeants and 486 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 1: lieutenants at the time, and they ended up coming in 487 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 1: the back door, making contact with him and arresting him 488 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: right there at his bachelor party. Police scort Dan back 489 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 1: to the station, where they hope to unravel the mystery 490 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,479 Speaker 1: of where Sam is still hiding. At this point, they 491 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: want to learn what role, if any, Dan Wozniak has 492 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 1: played in Sam's disappearance, and that's when Dan's story was 493 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: first tested. He's like, I'm not good. I did something that. 494 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: What did you do? It's like, there's a dead body 495 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 1: in my party. I shot somebody. It was a fit 496 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: of rage. You're not thinking of we both, you know, 497 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: after we took a little break a partner and are 498 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: looking at you and going, wow, you know this guy 499 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 1: he thinks he's acting in front of us, you know, 500 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: with this story. And same with her when we interviewed her, 501 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 1: when Detective more Alice interviator and when I actually did 502 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 1: the voice stress analyzer test on her. You know, she 503 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: just trying to be utilizing their acting persona on us. 504 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: And it was terrible, it really was. They were pretty inseparable, 505 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 1: they were always together. I don't know how she could 506 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: not have known what was going on. You know, we 507 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: can't use it in quote. I did a voice what 508 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: we call a voice tress analyzer. It's kind of like 509 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: a lie detective test, and she failed it. She failed 510 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 1: all three of them, from what I understand, Yeah, I 511 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: had to. Initially I did the first test. I couldn't 512 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: get any good valuable graphs from her comments because it's 513 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,480 Speaker 1: just yes and no answers, because there's time to disguise 514 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: her voice, you know. So then I had to do 515 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: it again, and by it's the third time, I think 516 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,360 Speaker 1: I finally got some decent patterns. The patterns show that 517 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: she was she's not truthful. I'm a big advocate of 518 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: that machine, you know, I was trained on. It gives 519 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 1: me a lot of investigative tools to go further. And 520 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 1: so when I got all the information, I was able 521 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: to tell Detective to hey, you know, she's not telling 522 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: the truth. At this point in Detective Cohen's interview, he 523 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,479 Speaker 1: tells Daniel that he wants a sample of his DNA, 524 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: and Dan's reaction reveals quite a lot to the detective 525 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: slow for he said, you guys interesting. So I remember 526 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 1: very specifically when I asked him to do a DNA sample, 527 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 1: and I pulled out the little kid. He just sat 528 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: backed up in his chair and you could tell his 529 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 1: wheels for spinning. And next thing you know, he's like, well, 530 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 1: you know, I've been in Sam's apartment before, and you 531 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: might find my DNA in the bathroom and you might 532 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,719 Speaker 1: find it over here. And he starts telling me all 533 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 1: these places you might now find I knew at that 534 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 1: point in time he was lying. You know, he's not 535 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 1: telling the truth. Now. I was in Sam's apartment Friday afternoon. 536 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: Dan's next version of events, where Sam is the suspect 537 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: on the run, leads Dan into making a critical error 538 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 1: and he totally loses his cool. Okay, fine, you know what. 539 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 1: He didn't come down. He came down and said, helped me. 540 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 1: I went upstairs and yes, I saw the gandham body 541 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: is that what want to end? We want to hear 542 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 1: the truth. That is the truth. Okay, and tell us 543 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: what happened? How did that? How did that play out? 544 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: So how did you get honor that? I don't DNA 545 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 1: doesn't just fall off. I don't know. I didn't touch her, 546 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 1: I didn't do anything. What did you see? Two gunshots 547 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: in and that was Dan Wasniak's undoing. He thought he 548 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,760 Speaker 1: was the smartest guy in the room. He thought he 549 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: could outwit and act his way out of a situation 550 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: he found himself in. But this wasn't a play, this 551 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 1: was no joke. This was a murder investigation, and these 552 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: detectives were narrowing in on his blunders. Lieutenant Ed Everett 553 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: was in the room with Dan at the time and 554 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 1: describes what he felt was the break in their case 555 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 1: because when we were in the apartment and we all 556 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 1: looked in, it was only one visible to our eyes. 557 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: And then when he had mentioned he saw two gunshot wounds, 558 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 1: I said, well, was there when she was shot. He 559 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 1: was there when she was killed. And we all kind 560 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 1: of simultaneously when we're in that interview when he said 561 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: to my partner and I, we kind of looked at 562 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 1: each other. And then that's when Lieutenant Evert said the 563 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 1: two shots and you could see wosniacs face, you know, like, oh, 564 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,240 Speaker 1: I guess my acting job just went down the toilet. 565 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,440 Speaker 1: And and because as you said earlier, you couldn't tell 566 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,959 Speaker 1: on the scene if there were two wounds to Julie's head, 567 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 1: you could, you could not. And there's no way you could. 568 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,359 Speaker 1: You know, there's too much excess blood that's intermingled within 569 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: the hair, and and even if you tried to move 570 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:36,799 Speaker 1: the hair around, you're not gonna be able to tell 571 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 1: the wards two it looks like just one blood spot. 572 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 1: Until the body goes to the corner's office and actually 573 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,839 Speaker 1: an autopsy is performed, you're not going to know at 574 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,360 Speaker 1: the time. I don't even think that from what I recall, 575 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,240 Speaker 1: the corner didn't even make a determination as to anything 576 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,359 Speaker 1: until the autopsy came back officially for Wosnia to say 577 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: two shots. We knew right then and there that he 578 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:08,719 Speaker 1: was totally involved, and now we've got him. You you 579 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: can't even keep your life straight. His story kept changing. 580 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: I think he thought that his acting ability was going 581 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,680 Speaker 1: to carry him through this, this performance, so to speak, 582 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 1: and it wasn't doing it. Dan is ushered back to 583 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,720 Speaker 1: a holding cell in the jail. There, Dan has access 584 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,200 Speaker 1: to a phone. As the pressure mounts, he really needs 585 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,080 Speaker 1: to talk to his fiancee. It ends up being the 586 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,799 Speaker 1: call that will take down the curtain for Dan's last performance. 587 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:44,440 Speaker 1: What please you realize you're recording the song conversation anyways, 588 00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 1: You're being an absolute ask to try and lie again. Yeah, 589 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:56,760 Speaker 1: I am, because they're the bad um. You're talking about 590 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 1: their credit card theme. They already know all about it, 591 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 1: no more than that that. What I'm saying is that 592 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,279 Speaker 1: if they can't find up, they can't I know. But well, 593 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. I thought it was 594 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,759 Speaker 1: a murder weapon. I don't know what you're talking about 595 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,400 Speaker 1: other evidence. I don't know what Kim how decides that 596 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,240 Speaker 1: then said he had a murder weapon. So that's exactly 597 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 1: what Kim told me. So I'm gonna go tell the 598 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,680 Speaker 1: detective now, So what do you want me to do? 599 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 1: I don't want you to tell the detective anything, and 600 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,080 Speaker 1: I don't want them involved like that. I mean, now 601 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,799 Speaker 1: I'm now I'm dead. Now I'm really dead. Maybe you're 602 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,440 Speaker 1: already dead. You said you wanted to talk to me. 603 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm crazy and I did it. You 604 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 1: did what they killed Julia and I killed Sam. Okay, 605 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:51,400 Speaker 1: tell me how you you killed Sam two shots using 606 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 1: my father's gun that I had, and you're motored behind 607 00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:03,280 Speaker 1: Uh killing Sam was money and it's in money. And okay, 608 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,359 Speaker 1: tell me about the same incident on what you did. 609 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,439 Speaker 1: I told him that I needed to move some stuff 610 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,640 Speaker 1: from the theater. I said, you need to bend down 611 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,719 Speaker 1: and help me lift this thing up. And when he 612 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,280 Speaker 1: bent down, I grabbed the gun. I never really fired 613 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:19,840 Speaker 1: the gun before, so I pulled it back and I 614 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,360 Speaker 1: shot him. Term Is there anything that you said to 615 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:27,920 Speaker 1: Julie Pryor sharing her? No? I didn't. I had I 616 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,400 Speaker 1: got her in. I was downstairs in my apartment. I 617 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,120 Speaker 1: was still text messaging. That was Sam's phone. You were using. Yes, 618 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,640 Speaker 1: what what sort of text precage on where you're doing that? Before? 619 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 1: I was saying you need to come over tonight, You 620 00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,520 Speaker 1: need to come over tonight. What what did you say 621 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: to Julie? Tally was wearing like a crown tr She 622 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,200 Speaker 1: had just come from her brother's eye. Had said like, um, 623 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 1: Sam just called me and he was going through some stuff. 624 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,600 Speaker 1: She said, yeah, me too. When I said, adm key, 625 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,800 Speaker 1: let's go in, opened the door. I listen. I just 626 00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:58,680 Speaker 1: went to the bathroom and quick, because I was really 627 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:03,719 Speaker 1: nervous into gun again. I went back out into the 628 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,000 Speaker 1: hallway and then said, oh, by the way, did you 629 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,560 Speaker 1: see this in sam Stead? And I said, rasinging over 630 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,319 Speaker 1: look at it right there? When she was lead over 631 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,680 Speaker 1: and put two mills in the back of around. Okay, 632 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,640 Speaker 1: when did you feel you have to kill Joey? What 633 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,880 Speaker 1: was the rationale behind? Man was called crazy? But seriously, 634 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,360 Speaker 1: seriously to cover up Sam and so well, why how 635 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,800 Speaker 1: would that cover up? To make it look like he 636 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:33,400 Speaker 1: was on the run and he did? Why could you 637 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:37,279 Speaker 1: try and cover for him? We needed the money, No, 638 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,240 Speaker 1: we never need money. We need to be good people 639 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:49,200 Speaker 1: and you have each other. Sorry, on that call, you 640 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:55,320 Speaker 1: hear Rachel lecturing Dan on being good people. Meanwhile, Rachel 641 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,120 Speaker 1: knew Dan kept a sex tape of a former girlfriend 642 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 1: in their heartment safe she found that tape, which was 643 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 1: located right next to Dan's father's gun. Rachel confronted Dan, 644 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,520 Speaker 1: and he told her he filmed it with the purposes 645 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:17,160 Speaker 1: of planning to extort money from his ex girlfriend and 646 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:22,840 Speaker 1: her family. Rachel actually told police this explanation of the 647 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,640 Speaker 1: sex tape the night Dan was arrested after his bachelor party, 648 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,759 Speaker 1: as if it was a matter of fact, because that 649 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: was part and parcel with her lifestyle with Dan. It 650 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:39,200 Speaker 1: was that lifestyle that we now know included stealing, lying, cheating, 651 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,800 Speaker 1: and conning people out of money. So the idea that 652 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,759 Speaker 1: she's telling him, we have to be good people and 653 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:51,120 Speaker 1: we don't need money. Because Rachel knows the police are 654 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,800 Speaker 1: recording her, she knows about the sex tape. It was 655 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,040 Speaker 1: in the apartment, she knows what Dan planned to do 656 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,720 Speaker 1: with it, and she seemed to have have no problem 657 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:06,040 Speaker 1: with it. I was able to get some calls that 658 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,520 Speaker 1: were made that happened between Dan and Rachel, and he 659 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,800 Speaker 1: seems to be sort of taking her through the murders 660 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,520 Speaker 1: just so that she's up to speed on the details 661 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,959 Speaker 1: of how much he's told you, guys, did you feel 662 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,080 Speaker 1: that way? Would you listen to the call? She knows 663 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,600 Speaker 1: a lot more than she's saying. I think he's telling 664 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,560 Speaker 1: her piece by piece, each detail as to what's going on. 665 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,279 Speaker 1: And I don't know if he's doing that to protect her, 666 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,120 Speaker 1: to make it look like he's the only one involved. Again, 667 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,480 Speaker 1: in my opinion, I know she knows a lot more. 668 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,919 Speaker 1: There's no doubt in my mind that she probably knows 669 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,640 Speaker 1: every detail. This caller is being recorded and maybe monitored. 670 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:47,839 Speaker 1: They are you sitting down? They don't think any left 671 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:49,680 Speaker 1: me after I tell you this good This is not 672 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,200 Speaker 1: a good story, Okay, but you need to know I 673 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,959 Speaker 1: called Pam and Ted look go down to the theater 674 00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:00,160 Speaker 1: on the baby and I had my dad done at it, 675 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,520 Speaker 1: and when I took him up into the attic, I 676 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,239 Speaker 1: shot him two times in the back of the head. 677 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,240 Speaker 1: And Rachel continues to profess her innocence to the media 678 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:14,880 Speaker 1: as yet another victim of Daniel Wozniak. After I'm finding 679 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,879 Speaker 1: all this out, I'm starting to question if I've ever 680 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,520 Speaker 1: known him. I absolutely feel like I was stuped by Dan. 681 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,680 Speaker 1: Rachel says she was duped by Dan, but let's start 682 00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:30,720 Speaker 1: with the Fernando Perez letter, where he writes that Rachel's 683 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,839 Speaker 1: response to Dan when he tells her of the plan 684 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,239 Speaker 1: to kill Sam for their honeymoon money, is to do 685 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,600 Speaker 1: whatever you have to do to make us happy Dan. 686 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,400 Speaker 1: Rachel claims that Dan hid their debt from her, but 687 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:49,040 Speaker 1: based on former friends of Rachel's, they all agree she 688 00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:53,480 Speaker 1: was completely aware of their financial status. Sources shared with 689 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:57,640 Speaker 1: me that Rachel and Dan stole nearly on a daily basis. 690 00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:03,880 Speaker 1: A bridesmaid of Rachel's said Rachel stole their bridesmaid's dresses 691 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:08,080 Speaker 1: for the wedding. Rachel and Dan stole furniture for their apartment, 692 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,719 Speaker 1: along with food and alcohol. Chris Williams said on the 693 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:17,240 Speaker 1: day Sam was murdered. When Dan and Sam left the apartment, 694 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,719 Speaker 1: he stayed back with Rachel and she got on Craigslist 695 00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:26,839 Speaker 1: looking for stripper jobs and nude model jobs. Why would 696 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:31,359 Speaker 1: Rachel do this if she thought they had money? Neither 697 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,759 Speaker 1: Dan nor Rachel held a steady job, so I'm not 698 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,719 Speaker 1: sure where Rachel thought the money was coming from. She 699 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,440 Speaker 1: said she didn't realize that Dan was a prolific liar, 700 00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,120 Speaker 1: but Rachel told police that he was an absolute pathological liar. 701 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:52,040 Speaker 1: So it's all Rachel's lies and inconsistencies that serve as 702 00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:56,040 Speaker 1: the blueprint to the truth in this case. And you're 703 00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,960 Speaker 1: absolutely right about Rachel Buffett. How could you not know? 704 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,080 Speaker 1: You know, you're counter over gone, you're into red, You're 705 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,680 Speaker 1: constantly borrowing money from everybody, and all of a sudden, 706 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,840 Speaker 1: your husband to be comes up with money from somewhere. 707 00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,319 Speaker 1: It's not from working hard as a starving actor. It's 708 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,720 Speaker 1: like he's got four or five hundred bucks in his pocket, 709 00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,480 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Where'd that come from? In an 710 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,879 Speaker 1: effort to clear her name, Rachel appears on the Dr. 711 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:26,320 Speaker 1: Phil Show, and it's confronted by Steve Hair because of 712 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,600 Speaker 1: how much these people are hurting and they think that 713 00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,360 Speaker 1: I had anything to do with that. It's bringing up 714 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,759 Speaker 1: a lot of pain for me. Do you believe she 715 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,839 Speaker 1: belongs in prison? Yes? I didn't. You're lying and you're 716 00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,480 Speaker 1: covering it up. My son and his friend, his tutor, 717 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,840 Speaker 1: they're both dead. He was cut up into pieces. And 718 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,479 Speaker 1: you to come on here and go on the TV 719 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,040 Speaker 1: stations pour me? That offends me. And how does Steve 720 00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:55,280 Speaker 1: Hair feel about Rachel Buffett's claims of innocence. There's fifty 721 00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,160 Speaker 1: a hundred different times you you lie to the police. 722 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,520 Speaker 1: You came out and like out and right, So just no, 723 00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,279 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to live with this and you're gonna 724 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:08,520 Speaker 1: have to live through social media now. Is that every 725 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,520 Speaker 1: time your name comes up, you're going to be associated 726 00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:14,120 Speaker 1: with the murder? And more importantly, is that you lied 727 00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:18,880 Speaker 1: about it? That says volumes about you? Baby? Where are you? 728 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:23,880 Speaker 1: I don't hear they won't mean they already told them, no, no, no, 729 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,560 Speaker 1: What was what on your line when you were just 730 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:34,080 Speaker 1: remember you buy it? Just Rember his hands water, laughing. 731 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:46,400 Speaker 1: Why do you think you're doing? I don't know. I 732 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:52,360 Speaker 1: don't know, and the heartbreak for Steve Hair continues. The 733 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,000 Speaker 1: police called to Steve. Before you find out from the TV, 734 00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,799 Speaker 1: we have to tell you that Sam was dismembered. That's 735 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,359 Speaker 1: when I lost it. That's when I lost it. They 736 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:06,480 Speaker 1: were looking for body parts at a park. That was Friday. Saturday, 737 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,640 Speaker 1: May twenty nine was Sam's birthday. And I'll never forget, 738 00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:15,920 Speaker 1: but on my son's birthday, I was praying that day 739 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,879 Speaker 1: would find his head. This was a boy, a man 740 00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,480 Speaker 1: who had on a tattoo on his chest, huge tattoo 741 00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:28,160 Speaker 1: on his chest of flowers and hearts with mom and 742 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,600 Speaker 1: dad in the middle of it. That's how they identified 743 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,960 Speaker 1: my son's body because he didn't have a head, needed 744 00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:36,840 Speaker 1: some arms. What Daniel wasny I did to that body, 745 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,480 Speaker 1: the way he left him there with just no regard 746 00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,960 Speaker 1: for human life was so disgraceful. And I swore that 747 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,200 Speaker 1: I was going to promise Sam that I wasn't going 748 00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:48,400 Speaker 1: to stop until I found out what happened to him. 749 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,640 Speaker 1: Over the next ten episodes of Sleuth, we will discover 750 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:58,319 Speaker 1: whether Dan wasnia committed these murders on his own well 751 00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,960 Speaker 1: here from countless witnesses, and reveal more evidence that points 752 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,480 Speaker 1: to others who may have helped Dan Wozniak plan and 753 00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:10,240 Speaker 1: execute the murders of our victims. Sam Hair and Julia 754 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: Kibuishi will learn of possible accomplices that authorities decided either 755 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,680 Speaker 1: to ignore or chose to overlook because they needed their 756 00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:22,919 Speaker 1: testimony in the prosecution of Daniel Wasniak's death penalty case. 757 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,879 Speaker 1: There's no statue in homicide. So you know, even though 758 00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,680 Speaker 1: we have one guy in prison right now on death row, 759 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:34,440 Speaker 1: there's still funny more room for others to follow. And 760 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,439 Speaker 1: so this odyssey that I've been on for the last 761 00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:41,120 Speaker 1: two years has really been not only about answering the 762 00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,840 Speaker 1: questions for me on a personal level, but more importantly 763 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:49,920 Speaker 1: helping these victims families, helping them understand what really happened 764 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,759 Speaker 1: to their loved ones. That hoping that the rest of 765 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,920 Speaker 1: the people involved are found guilty of the crimes they 766 00:46:55,960 --> 00:47:00,160 Speaker 1: committed as well, because it wasn't just Daniel Wasniak, It 767 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,399 Speaker 1: just wasn't There's no doubt in my mind she might 768 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,960 Speaker 1: be the mastermind of this whole thing, and Dan's just 769 00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,399 Speaker 1: taking a hit on his own. Theyb are you sure 770 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:12,520 Speaker 1: you're not making this up? Because you're under pressure. Don't 771 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,040 Speaker 1: have to God, truth time, it can be truthful. And 772 00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:17,960 Speaker 1: now all I want to do this dietause my life 773 00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:23,759 Speaker 1: is over. Why baby, because I don't want to live. No, 774 00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:29,399 Speaker 1: I mean why we'll get that back? What I really got? Bad? 775 00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:34,200 Speaker 1: Why did it back? Feel bad? Not have anything money 776 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:55,479 Speaker 1: for him? Next week, on Sleuth, victim Sam Hare's father, 777 00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,839 Speaker 1: Steve Hair, returns to share the details regarding the three 778 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:04,640 Speaker 1: felony counts Dan wazne x X fiance Rachel Buffett faces 779 00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:09,160 Speaker 1: in her upcoming trial for accessory after the fact. To date, 780 00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:13,200 Speaker 1: prosecutor Matt Murphy has only been willing to charge Buffett 781 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,840 Speaker 1: with the lesser crime of accessory, as he suggests he 782 00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,160 Speaker 1: can only prove she aided in covering up the murders, 783 00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:25,040 Speaker 1: Yet his own police who investigated the case, feel Buffett, 784 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,439 Speaker 1: the former Disney princess, should have been charged with murder. 785 00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:32,240 Speaker 1: Matt Murphy has offered Rachel a deal to plead guilty 786 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:36,560 Speaker 1: to a misdemeanor with no jail time and in one year, 787 00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:40,680 Speaker 1: he says, the entire charge will be dismissed, but Rachel 788 00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,600 Speaker 1: has turned down the offer because she says she wants 789 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:47,600 Speaker 1: her day in court. Next week, here with Steve and 790 00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:53,040 Speaker 1: I learned in our investigation and decide for yourselves Rachel's 791 00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:59,040 Speaker 1: role in the murders. If you enjoyed this episode of Sleuth, 792 00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,080 Speaker 1: share with the friend and be sure to leave a 793 00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:06,120 Speaker 1: rating or review. Follow Sleuth on I Heart Radio, or 794 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,319 Speaker 1: subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts so that you never 795 00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:10,440 Speaker 1: miss an episode