possible thing my mom could do, i would still defend her and be her supported. >> did you take her at her word? >> yeah. >> that she didn't do it? >> yeah, i mean, it is my mom. it is my mom. >> narrator: no matter what he saw in that box, no matter what it proved to a court of law, or what others may say about his choice, he is and always will be his mother's son. and he loved them both up there in their place of paradise. still does. regardless of the horror he carries around in that box. [music playing] hello, i'm andrea canning, and this is "dateline."ow? if i had to put it into one word, hello, i'm andrea canning and this is dateline. dateline.

was a young actress starring in the role if i had to put it into one word, one would be the closest. >> she was young actress starring in the role of a lifetime. a mystery. one of her friends was dead. >> there has been a body discovered. >> it's so hard. she was 23. >> another friend was missing and wanted. >> got a dead woman in the apartment. this guy is potentially dangerous. >> two mysteries to solve but one evasive witness. >> rachel didn't tell us this the day before. >> i told the truth to the best of my capability. >> police wondered, had another murder been planned? >> they said if you had gone back that day, they wanted to kill you. >> rachel had a secret. which you keep it? >> this is as diabolical as any

case i have seen. >> was the curtain about to close? >> rachel is the last piece. >> right. >> they are trying to say i'm somebody i am not. this is my life. i'm innocent. hello, and welcome to dateline. rachel buffett and daniel wozniak were struggling actors. they were in love and about to tie the knot. those plans were interrupted when someone was found dead at their apartment complex. at the center of this mystery, police wanted to know, were the actors telling the truth or reading from a script? here is josh mankiewicz with final curtain. >> hello? >> hi, baby. >> hey. what's going on? what do you want me to do?

>> the woman on the phone was hours away from walking down the aisle to mary the man on the other end of the call. en to pledge her love until death do them part. >> i'm going to go do something right now, and you're not going to see me for the rest of your life. >> instead, she found herself in the middle of a twisted murder plot that would change her life forever. >> what did you do? >> i think you know what i did. >> she knew. or did she? her name is rachel buffett. you may remember her from a story we first reported in 2016, about her then fiance, dan wozniak and about two families in search of the truth. >> i know a lot of answers now. more than i had the last time we met. >> now, the final curtain. >> i believe with all my heart, they were trying to get me back

there to kill me. >> there are things people need to know and things that need to be said. >> what would you do for love? we will get to all of that. first, let's go back to where this story began. orange county, california. not too far from the coast, you will find the camden martinique apartments occupied mostly from students from nearby colleges. >> we had the polls. we had the hot tubs. it's where everyone wanted to be. >> she lived there with her husband and that's what they meant a twentysomething couple named dan wozniak and rachel buffett. violet's husband described them to her. >> wine drinkers as opposed to hard liquor. met them and the perfect. how could we go wrong? >> rachel and dan acted in community theater. that's how they met. on stage.

a few years later they connected. >> he had become my best friend and i was hanging out with them so often. >> so i said give me a chance? you thought what? >> i don't want to lose my best friend. >> were you in love? >> i realized, i am in love with this person. >> when he proposed, she said yes. they moved to camden martinique four months before their wedding date. wife -- life wasn't easy. >> throughout our relationship, money was somewhat of an issue. >> rachel picked up or kieran there. once, she said, as a princess at disneyland and dan work sometimes too but nothing steady. >> they seem to struggle financially alive. you kind of felt sorry for them because they seemed they were so excited to get married and

start their life together. >> and, at the apartments, they settled in. >> it got to the point where everybody was hanging out with each other like every night. >> part of that circle was 26- year-old sam. he fought in afghanistan and made it home to california. >> there were a couple things that sets him apart. he seemed more responsible. >> sam was intent on earning his college degree, and that's how we met julie kibuishi. julie helped sam with his schoolwork. >> she got after him if he was s not studying because his grade reflected her tutoring. she took it seriously. >> julie's mom. >> she told me about sam. is like a big teddy bear and always nice to everybody. we got together at his place a lot of times. >> julie who lived at home got to know everyone at the complex, and rachel connected ac

with julie. they were both dancers. >> we had done ballet moves in our bathing suits at the pool and said we should take a couple dance classes together. >> that chance never arrived. ju on may 21, 2010, julie was at home with her mom. >> i was cooking in the kitchen and she said bye, mom, i am leaving. >> sam had been texting julie throughout the day. can you come over tonight at ca midnight alone? going out for a bit. lo very upset. need to talk. then please, no sex. i need to talk to someone,. >>e, we are like brother and sister. no sex. >> i'm hurting with some bad pham . i can't be alone. no sex. i'm begging like a brother. >> julie was ready to help. the next morning, june realized

julie had not come home. >> i started to feel something is wrong. >> across town, sam in parents, also worried because they could not get a hold of their son. >> i drove down there. i had the key to his apartment. i walked in. that's when he saw it. >> what's going on here? i freaked out. >> what had happened is sam in apartment? coming up. >> my phone rings and it's my husband asking me if i'm okay. yes, why? he said track down everybody. >> but not everybody could be found. >> he's missing. he's accused of this before. this guy is potentially very dangerous. >> when dateline continues. .

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discovered it in sam's apartment. track down everybody. >> rachel and dan had returned from the theater where they were costarring in a play. >> dan is wondering was i the last one to see sam? oh, my god. rachel is in the chair next to me and she is squeezing her head. she has a terrible headache. >> all your new best friends you hang out and one is missing. a body was found in one of their apartments. it was affecting the whole atmosphere. >> the police detective responded to the call. >> we have a twentysomething- year-old female on the bed and she's in a position that appears she was sexually mac assaulted. >> police i.d. the victim. sam's tutor and friend, julie kibuishi. they had to tell julie's parents. >> i think i was screaming, no. that's not my daughter.

it's not my daughter. >> julie had been shot twice in the head. her pants were down and someone had written on her sweatshirt the word all yours. police found julie's phone in the apartment and saw those weird texts sam had sent her. they learned about his combat tour and how he some high had night terrors. when police searched his name in their database, they found something sam in friends already knew. >> he had done some jail time. >> in 2002 at 18, sam herr was charged in the murder of another teenager. he was acquitted for sam in dad knew in hindsight, it did not look good. that didn't buy you a lot of rhythm from law enforcement? >> no. i understood that. it was imperative to start looking immediately. >> he wanted to find is son to

prove he was innocent. the orange county prosecutor also wanted to find sam quickly for entirely different reasons. >> he has a dead woman in his apartment and he's missing. you factor in afghanistan and he was a trained killer. he's been accused of this before and this guy could be potentially dangerous. >> the detectives and the data hunted sam independently. but on parallel tracks. detective spoke with sam in neighbors. >> i saw sam that day and had a short conversation with sam. >> rachel and dan said he was with another man they did not know. a man in a black hat. it seemed a potential lead. meanwhile, steve them there were recent transactions on the bank account he and sam shared. the trio led to long beach where sam's atm card was used to order a pizza. cops staked out the delivery address. >> ready to hit it like someone

committed a murder is inside. >> and that someone is sam herr? >> yes. >> instead it wasn't. but instead they found this guy. >> sitting in front of officers of the law handcuffed, i'm obviously my balls are inside of me. i would [ bleep ] myself and i was nervous. >> wesley told police that he had no idea who sam herr was. he said he got the atm card from a guy. >> he worked for bail bonds agency and he wanted me to withdraw money from an atm for legal reasons. >> wesley said he believed the guy because it was a fellow actor he looked up to. rachel buffett's fiance, dan wozniak. >> coming up. detectives want to talk to dan.

>> what's going through my head is shock. it's probably a huge mistake. >> and dan has quite the story to tell. >> when dateline continues. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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that's when the story took a turn. detectives discovered the sam in neighbor might somehow be wrapped up in the mystery. now, they were about to bring dan in for questioning or he would make a stunning admission and change the course of the entire investigation. once again, here is josh mankiewicz with final curtain. detectives on the hunt for their prime suspect sam herr traced his atm card to dan wozniak. they found him at his bachelor party. >> immediately, when he saw me. he turned pale. >> the detective hauled him to the stage and and charged him with accessory to julie's murder. dan seemed eager to come clean. he told police that sam confessed to him that while drunk and on drugs, sam asked julie for sex. >> he said no and he shot her

twice in the head. like, julie. julie is like a friend. >> then dan said sam threatened him and his wife to be. he agreed to help sam escape. according to dan, he offered him money and dan took it to help pay for his wedding. as to the anonymous man in the black cat? dan had a confession to make. >> he doesn't exist. >> detectives went to the camden apartments to tell rachel dan was in custody. >> what's going through my head is shock. it's probably a huge mistake. it will be dropped in time for the rehearsal dinner tomorrow night. >> detectives didn't fully believe the story so they brought rachel in to see him. she is on the side of the angels when you put her in that room thinking he'll get him to tell us everything. >> that was our goal.

>> dan told rachel the same story he told detectives. sam killed julie and then dan helped sam escape. >> there's nothing you can do at this point to make it better. >> absolutely. he can be truthful with us and truthful with you. >> then detective spoke with rachel alone. rachel told them she and dan received an eviction notice. dan had to borrow money to make the rent. she said dan had told her only recently that he borrowed the money from dangerous people. >> he told me people were going to break his legs. >> she said on the day dan was supposed to pay the light breakers $2200 or else, sam stopped by. >> he came down to the apartment because he was going to give dan a ride. >> she said dan and sam live together than dan came back alone, but, with money.

>> he had 400 somehow on friday. >> rachel said she could not believe that dan was mixed up and julie's murder. is that when you start to think to yourself, this guy i am about to marry is somebody i don't even know? >> i was still thinking i knew his heart. the crimes he was saying he did? at least that wind up with someone who would do anything to help somebody in need. >> did he tell you about this? did he tell you his involvement? >> hell no. >> detectives drove rachel back to the apartments. >> i go to my friends and knock on the door. at that point just start bawling. >> she is shaking violently and said dan has been arrested. she is a mess. >> rachel win her parents home

to tell them dan was in jail and the wedding was off. >> my mom, she has lost it. >> the day was to get more traumatic. at the police station, dan asked to speak with detectives again. this time, he said something that blew the case wide open. >> i went crazy and i did it. i killed julie and i killed sam. >> you didn't see that coming. >> no. >> dan wozniak confessed that he did not help sam herr but he killed him. dan said they drove to a theater where he performed and dan asked sam to help move something from the attic. >> he bent down and i grabbed a gun and shot him. >> so he fired again. >> he started bleeding. he wasn't moving. >> dan then drove to a

different theater later that evening to appear on stage with rachel in the musical. in this video of the performance, dan showed no signs of stress as he played the starring role. dan told police that during the show he texted julie from sam's phone, pretending to be sam. after the play, dan said he went to sam in apartment and leeward julian to sam in bedroom. >> a said lean over. when she leaned over and put two bullets. >> he admitted scrawling those nasty words and julie's back and splitting her pants with a pair of scissors. the next day, he said he disposed of sam's body and gave another pitch perfect performance, captured on videotape. detectives asked, why? >> enter motive behind killing sam was?

spent money and insanity. >> sam had more than $60,000 in the bank. his saved up combat pay. and julie kibuishi? dan said he killed her to cover his tracks and to frame sam. >> this is as diabolical as any case i have ever seen. >> police delivered the news to sam in parents. their son had been murdered. >> for whatever reason i said at least he was not dismembered. the next morning, we want to let you know that sam was dismembered. that's when i lost it. >> dan wozniak was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. the news hit the wire. at the police station, the phone rang. the caller had a story to tell. one that cast a new light on dan's leading later, rachel

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welcome back. dan wozniak confessed he killed sam herr for his money and later shot julie to muddy the investigation and point police towards sam. the actor's admission turned the case on its head. now, a witness was about to step forward with information that would push dan's fiance to center stage. once again, here is josh mankiewicz with final curtain. >> ♪ >> california draws people who want to perform. >> it sure does. pursuing the same dream. >> chris williams moved from canada to california for school. >> i ended up falling in love with jazz music and falling in love with california. i have been down here 20 years. perform and love it. >> ♪

>> in 2010, chris was undergoing serious health problems. the working musician did not have insurance so his friends organized a benefit concert. >> a couple thousand people showed up. it was pretty amazing. >> raising money to keep you healthy. >> yeah. >> and it worked. here you are. >> it did. it changed my whole life. >> chris who had been keeping to himself began to socialize again and met two struggling young actors, dan wozniak and rachel buffett. dan was charming. >> he was. very open and personable. i felt we had a lot in common. rachel is beautiful and they were very welcoming to me. >> chris soon learned his new friends had financial troubles, and he offered to help by lending them money. >> all my friends had just done

this big benefit for me. >> time to give back. >> yeah. >> chris wanted to make sure he got his money back so chris told a story that was 100% falls. >> i said, well, i cannot lend you the money personally, but i know people i can get it from. they are not good people so we got to get it back. >> he lent dan and rachel $2000. dan promised to pay him back by the end of the week, friday, may 21. on the appointed day, chris drove to dan and rachel's apartment. who was there beside dan and rachel and you? >> i didn't know his name at the time but it was sam. >> dan left with sam and told chris to hang back with rachel. >> in my mind it was a 10 minute thing. >> meanwhile, rachel seemed

stressed. >> she's on the computer looking for work and looking for ways to get money. >> three hours later dan wozniak returned without sam. >> he throws $400 down right in front of me. he is like shaking. there's this wild look in his eyes. he's breathing. almost like a panic attack. i'm sitting there and go, like, everything is okay, man. everything is okay. he is like, he slumps down in the chair. i said, is this every penny you have? >> chris said he handed dan a $20 bill and noticed rachel was visibly angry. >> things were tense. >> so the relationship was like a clenched fist. >> something was terrifying in the feel of the room. i wanted out of there.

>> he left and around 20 minutes later says courage, rachel called. >> rachel goes, i think you left a 20 year. i think you dropped some money. you should come back. i said i'm not coming back. i did not drop a 20 but i left a 20 so you guys could get dinner. she said no you should come back. >> chris did not return. a week later as he was getting ready to attend their wedding, he heard about the murders of sam and julie. and realized they happened on the same day as his weird meeting with dan and rachel. chris immediately called police. >> we were shocked to learn it. we went back, rachel didn't tell us this the day before. >> detectives interviewed rachel again, this time not as a witness but as a suspect.

>> why don't you tell me why you forgot to tell me about this? >> because i was afraid that if you knew that chris had seen us that day, i don't know who chris knows. and i don't know if he knows anybody bad. >> did you think we were not going to find out? >> i guess not. i'm a little afraid. >> chris had told dan and rachel the money he lent them came from other people, dangerous people. was it her safety rachel was worried about? detectives did not think so. >> she's giving herself more time to think of which is going to tell us what she has to tell us. >> and she's protecting dan. >> protecting herself and dan. back >> they asked her to take a kind of lie detector. rachel agree and the hitter with an aggressive question. >> did you plan the murder with dan? >> the results came quickly.

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said the feeling in the room was terrifying. turns out it was the same day that julie kibuishi and sam herr had been killed. rachel never told police about the meeting with chris so they wanted to know why? once again, here is josh mankiewicz with final curtain. >> a reluctant rachel buffett to gave voice stress analyzer. the results were less than encouraging. >> i gave you three test today. okay? >> i know my stories and time lines are kind of juggled up because my mind is not there right now. i'm trying to remember everything i can. i've told you everything i know. i'm completely innocent. >> maybe. now, detectives smelled blood. they circled back to that friday when dan left with sam and came back without him. >> he's gone with three hours and comes back having a heart attack.

you know he was killing sam at that point. >> i thought he was overreacting because he was afraid of loan sharks. >> rachel insisted she knew nothing about the murders until dan confessed to them. the detective had suspected otherwise from the moment he brought her into the interrogation room to see dan. >> what happened? >> it was almost like they were looking at each other, feeding off each other, and she was waiting for her next line. >> remember, rachel and julie had been friends. her reaction when she heard what sam supposedly did to julie did not seem to match that. >> i'm sorry that i am not the -- desert and loses their mind when they hear this. >> you were in shock. >> the young actress was not convincing her audience. ever learned dan called rachel

from jail before his confession. the jail, of course, recorded those calls. >> babe, listen to me. i'm going to good do something and you're not going to see me for the rest of your life. do you understand that? >> no. no. >> she doesn't say what is it? her responses no, no. i think she realizes her world has the potential to come crashing around her. >> in other words, maybe rachel already knew what dan had done and what he might tell detectives. or, was it rachel was figuring things out? >> what did you do? >> i think you know what i did. >> are you the one that killed them? >> dan did not answer that. he asked her to come down to the station. as she drove, dan continue to

call her. >> i love you, baby. you are so insane and so stupid. but i know in your twisted little mind, you are doing it because you wanted to be happy with me. and i hate you for screwing it up. >> as rachel got closer to the station, she was in tears. >> i love you. i'll be right there. okay? >> before rachel arrived, dan sat down with detectives and confessed to the murders. then he called rachel again and told her what he had done. >> i shot him two times in the back of the head. and then i grabbed his credit cards and i

grabbed wesley, and took money out of his account. >> how does wesley involve? how did you get him involved? >> rachel didn't seem to react. in instead she asked about wesley? when dan described killing julie, rachel continue to focus on details. >> i opened up the door sam in apartment. shot her twice in the back of the head. >> how did nobody hear the gun? >> i don't know. >> detectives wondered did rachel know about the murders before they happen? and, did she participate? >> i think she may have been present when julie was killed. i do not think julie would've gone into the apartment with daniel by herself. >> hard free homicide detective to imagine. >> you don't look at a disney person is -- present princess as it calculated murderer.

>> thinking it improving it are two different things. perhaps rachel was another victim of the murder plot. there was no physical evidence placing her at the scene of either murder, and she and dan both insisted she did not know about them in advance. >> two years into the investigation we made the determination. we did not have enough to charge her for murder. >> instead, rachel was arrested and charged as accessory to murder after-the-fact. the only case against her is she did not tell. >> that's right. >> according to the da, she lied about two important figures in the case. the man in the black cat who was not there and the jazz musician who was. you did catch daniel. you did find out about chris. what affect did rachel's lies really have? >> we got her walk police officers who solved the case anyway, but is it okay for her

to lie to the police? the law says no. >> sam and julie's parents also thought rachel was more involved than she was letting on. >> they are 24/7 together. how could you not know if your fiance committed that kind of crime. how could you not notice? >> i want them to charge her with murder. i am not the one who has to prove it to everybody. >> rachel pleaded not guilty. she posted bail and was released. later that day, she held a press conference. >> are you saying you are innocent? >> innocent. >> she was willing to bet a jury would agree. >> rachel on trial. >> are you an honest person? >> i think so. >> there's not a doubt in my mind that rachel new.

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as long as welcome back to "dateline." dan wozniak confessed to the murders of sam herr and julie kibuishi. back. dateline. dan wozniak confessed to the murders of sam herr and julie kibuishi, and he told police he acted alone. there was no physical evidence tying dan's fiance, rachel buffett teether killing but detectives believed she lied to

them to protect dan. now the couple once the toast of the community theater pace two separate trials. would two grieving families finally learn the truth? in december, 2015, five years after sam and julie's murders, the lives of two young actors were playing out not on stage but in court. dan wozniak went on trial first. it did not take long for jury to convict him of murder and sentenced him to death. he is appealing the conviction. salmon julie's parents confront their children's killer. >> you are a coward. a need for the death penalty in california. my only regret in this state will not let me kill this coward myself. >> you took advantage of my daughter's kindness and care

for her friend. you took her precious life and then you disgraced her by pulling off her pants? to you, my daughter was just a decoy. nothing else. >> the pot -- the spotlight turned to rachel buffett. she faced a felony charge, accessory after the fact. >> police and prosecutors do not believe you were honest. were you honest with them? >> i was. i know my heart and god knows my heart. that's my comfort. god is in control and knows i'm innocent. >> are you an honest person? >> i think so. to the best of my capability. i told the truth to help police get to the bottom of things. my heart was in the right place. >> dan killed sam and disposes of sam's body.

sam lowers julie to sam's apartment using his phone. dan kills julie. during all that time, you never suspect a thing. >> not a thing. >> in 2018, eight years after the murders, the aspiring actors went on trial, accused of lying to protect the man she loved. >> this is my name. this is my life. this is my entire future and i have nothing to hide. i am innocent. >> some of her former friends did not agree. violet testified against her. >> knowing the details they unraveled and the lies and looking at her and going, how dare you. >> violet told the jury the night they learned sam had disappeared while dan was wondering if he was the last person to see sam. >> rachel is telling dan to shut up. shut up. that's not what happened, dan. you are messed up.

memories are screwing up my story. >> the jury heard from chris williams, the jazz musician who spent hours with rachel the day of the murders and like detectives, there were things he was an accessory before the murders and not just after them. >> there was not a doubt in my mind that rachel knew. >> chris came to believe that when rachel called him and asked him to come back to the apartment, it was not to return is $20. >> that's what the police told me. they said, if you would've gone back that day, they wanted to kill you. >> because you are a loose end. >> what i believe is when he got back, rachel said, chris saw you with sam. >> that was suspicion and not evidence. the trial focused on false statements rachel made to detectives.

statements her attorney argued were easily explained. >> anyone who has ever experienced planning a wedding knows the extreme pressure and stress that goes along with that. >> add murderer he said and then an arrest original's soon to be husband. >> the incredible stress she was under with all these things occurring, is it possible she's not entirely accurate about certain things? of course it is. >> rachel's actions can be explained but dan wozniak's could not. >> he is a monster. a pathological liar. what he did to those two is unthinkable. rachel had nothing to do with that. >> yes, she did, so the prosecutor. she lied, trying to help dan get away with murder. >> everything he just said about dan wozniak is accurate. he is a pathological liar.

he is a monster, but he is her little monster. she knows him and all the stuff goes on under her nose. >> the jury took five hours to reach a verdict. >> we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant, rachel buffett, guilty . >> when you heard the sound of the clicks of the cops, to me it was a sweet sound because her arrogance and her lies are now caught up with her. >> salmon julie's parents spoke at the sentencing. >> part of my son's body lies dead and dismembered in the attic of a los alamitos theater, rachel buffett was spreading lies.was was lying and my son's apartment, rachel was deceiving the police, attempting to throw them off the trail of her lover, dan wozniak. >> to me, you and that monster two peas in a pod.

you are both self-centered and truly heartless, and i hope you live every day regretting your disgusting decisions. >> the judge sentenced rachel to 32 months behind bars. it was the final scene of this real-life drama. chris williams always wondered, should he have seen the warning signs? could he have stopped the murders from happening? >> i spent all those years wishing i could have done something. i walked out. i did something to help. that's what i wanted. >> what two families wanted were some answers and some relief from their pain. those answers finally came. >> i'm pretty much satisfied right now. never prove 100%. but, i'm not going to get much more.

>> unfortunately the criminal justice system has never doubled as a grief therapist. some wounds are too great to be healed in a courtroom. >> her voice, what she was wearing, i am getting old and you forget a lot of stuff. those things, i don't want to forget her image intervoice. it's hard. no matter how many years passed by. of dateline. i am andrea canning. thanks for watching. good a morning and welcome this sunday edition of morning joe weekend. here are some of the key conversa