after the civil trial, the sheriff's department took a fresh look at rebecca's death. eight months later, that review also concluded that rebecca died by suicide. she would like to see authorities reinvestigate her son's case. >> you think they will reinvestigate max's death? >> i think it is the right thing to do. i think it will happen? i really don't know. >> how does a mother ever truly accept the tragic loss of a child? the ripples keep on spreading to this day in a place where nothing bad was supposed to happen. >> that's all for this edition of dateline. i am andrea canning. thank you for watching. r watch hello, i'm andrea canning, and this is "dateline."ow? >> hello, this is dateline. >> how am i doing right now?

if i had to put it into one word numb would be the closest. >> she was a young actress starring in the role of a lifetime, and mystery. one of her friends was dead. >> there has been a body discovered in sam's apartment. >> she was 23. >> and another friend was missing and wanted. >> this guy is potentially very dangerous. >> we were pretty confident he was our guy. >> two mysteries, one of ace of witness. if i told the truth to the best of my capability. >> police wondered had another murder been planned? did rachel have a secret? would she keep it? >> this is as diabolical as any case i have ever seen.

>> was occurring about to close? >> they are trying to say that i am somewhat that i am not. this is my life. this is my entire future. i am innocent. am innocent. >> hello and welcome to dateline. rachel buffett and dan wozniak were struggling actors. they were in love and about to tie the knot. those plans were interrupted when someone was found dead. at the center of this mystery police wanted to know where the action is telling the truth or reading from a script? >> hello? >> hello, baby. >> what's going on? what do you want me to do? >> don't leave me.

>> the woman on the phone was hours away from walking down the aisle to mary the man on the other end of this call, to pledge her love until death do them part. >> i'm going to go do something right now and you are not going to see me for the rest of your life. >> and says 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 than fiance daniel wozniak and about two families in search of the truth. >> i know a lot more than i had the last time we met. >> now, the final curtain.

>> i believe they were trying to get me back there to kill me . >> there are things that people need to know. >> and a question, what would you do for love. we will get to all of that first. let's go back to where the story began. orange county, california. not too far from the course you will find these apartments occupied mostly by students from nearby colleges. >> we have the pools, we have a hot tub. that is where everyone wanted to be. >> back in 2010 by the randolph lived there with her then husband. that is where they found a couple rachel buffett and daniel wozniak. >> is finally a couple that's a little more mature. i met them and i thought perfect. what could go wrong? >> rachel and dan acted in

community theater. that is how they met, on stage. a few years later they reconnected. >> he had already become my best friend. i was hanging out with him often. i thought i don't want to lose my best friend. shortly after we moved in together is when i realized i am in love with this person. >> when he proposed she said yes. they moved to camden four months before their wedding day. life was not easy. >> throughout our whole relationship money was somewhat of an issue. >> rachel picked up work here and there, once she said as a princess at disney world. dan roche sometimes too, nothing steady. >> they seemed to struggle financially alive. you kind of felt sorry for them. they seemed so excited to get

married and start their lives together. >> and at the apartments they settled right in. >> it got to the point where everyone was hanging out every night. >> part of the circle was 26 role sam herr, an army veteran who fought in afghanistan and made it home to california. >> there were a couple of things that affect them apart. he seemed more responsible. >> found was intent on ernie's college degree and that is how he met julie. she helps them with his schoolwork. >> she got after him if he wasn't studying. his great reflected her tutoring. she took it very seriously. >> she told me about them. he fact a big teddy bear. he's always nice to everybody. we get together at his place a lot of times. >> julie who lived at home got to know everyone at the

complex. rachel connected with julie. they were both dancers. >> we had done some ballet moves at the pool and talked about how we should take a couple dance classes together. >> that chance never arrived. on friday, may 21, 2010 julie was at home with her mom. >> i was cooking in the kitchen. she said goodbye, mom. i am leaving. >> sam have been texting julie throughout the day. can you come over tonight at midnight alone? going out for a bit. very upset, need to talk. please, no sex. i need to talk to someone. julie tested back lol, we are like brother and sister. sam texted back i'm hurting with some bad family crap. i can be alone.

no sex. please i am begging as a brother. as always julie was ready to help. she went to sam's place. the next morning june realized julie had not come home. >> i started to feel like this is something wrong. >> across town sam's parents also worried because they could not get a hold of their son. >> i drove down there and i knocked on his door, no answer. i have the key. i walked in there. >> and that is when he saw it. >> i freaked out. >> what had happened in sam's apartment? coming up ... >> my phone rings and it is my husband asking me if i am okay? he's that track down everybody. >> but not everybody could be found. >> he is missing. he's been accused of this before and you think this guy is potentially very dangerous. >> when dateline continues. ero. >> when dateline continues.

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>> there is a body in my son's apartment -- a dead body. >> is it someone that you know, sir? >> i have no idea who she is. >> after sam hears the dad called 911 the news break quickly at camden martinique.

>> my phone rings and it is my husband asking me if i am okay? yes, why? there's been a body discovered in sam's apartment. track down everybody. >> rachel and dan had just returned from the theater where they were costar in a play. >> dan is wondering was i the last one to see sam? rachel is sitting on the chair next to me squeezing her head. she's got a terrible headache. >> all of your new best friends that you hang out with every day, one of them is missing, and body was found in one of their apartments. this was something affecting the whole atmosphere. >> the costa mesa police detective and everett responded to the call. >> we have a 20 something-year- old female in a bad and it appears she was sexually assaulted. >> police soon i.d. the victim, julie kibuishi. they had to tell julie's parents. >> i think i was screaming like

that's not my daughter. it's just not my daughter. >> julie have been shot twice in the head. her pants were down and someone had written on her sweatshirt the words all yours. police found julie's phone in the apartment and saw the weird text sam had sent her. they learned about his combat tour and how sam sometimes had night terrors. when police searched his name in their database they found something sam's friends already knew. >> he had done some jail time. >> back in 2002 at 18 sam herr was charged in the murder of another teenager. he was acquitted, but sam's 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. that is why it was imperative to start looking immediately.

>> steve wanted to find his fun to prove he was innocent. matt murphy also wanted to find them quickly for entirely different reasons. >> we have a dead woman in his apartment. he is missing. you start thinking if he a trained killer? he has been accused of this before. your thinking this guy is potentially very dangerous. >> the detectives and the dad hunted them independently but on parallel tracks. detectives spoke with his neighbors. >> i saw sam that day. i had a short conversation with sam. >> rachel and dan said sam was with another man they didn't know. a man in a black hat. it seemed a potential lead. meanwhile, on the bank account he and sam shared the trail led to long beach where sam's atm card was used to order a pizza. cops staked out the delivery

address. >> on file, ready to hit it like someone committed a murder inside. >> that someone is sam herr ? >> yes. >> except it wasn't. instead the cops found this guy. >> sitting in front of officers of the law handcuffed, i am obviously literally, i can't say it, is g-rated. but my balls were inside of me and i was nervous. >> wesley told police he had no idea who sam was. he said he got the atm card from a guy he knew who told an elaborate story. >> that he works for a bail bondsman agency and that he wanted me to withdraw money from an atm for legal reasons. >> wesley said he believed the guy because it was a fellow actor that he looked up to, transcendence fiance daniel wozniak . -- rachel buffett's

fiance, daniel wozniak. >> what is going through my head is shock. this is probably a huge mistake. >> and dan has quite a story to tell when dateline continues. tell when dateline continues.

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welcome back. police believed sam herr murdered julie kibuishi in cold blood and then went on the lam. >> welcome back. police believed sam herr murder julie kibuishi in cold blood and one on the lamb.

it was an all-out manhunt. detectives discovered sam's neighbor daniel wozniak my somehow be wrapped up in the mystery. now they were about to ring him in for questioning where 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 final suspects sam herr traced his atm card to the fiance of rachel buffett , daniel wozniak. they saw him at his bachelor party. >> immediately when he saw me he turned pale. >> he hauled dan to the station and charged with accessory to murder. dan seemed eager to come clean. he told police sam kump asked that while drunk and on drugs sam asked julie for sex.

>> she said no and he shot her twice in the head. >> then he said sam threatened him and his wife to be, rachel buffett. so he agreed to help him escape. according to dan he offered money and dan took it to help pay for his wedding. as to the anonymous man in the black hat, dan had a confession. >> that is a lie. >> detectives went to the camden apartments to tell rachel that dan was in custody. >> was going through my head is shock. this is probably a huge mistake. it's going to be dropped and everything in time for the rehearsal dinner tomorrow night. >> detectives did not fully believe dan so they brought rachel in to see him. >> she's on the side of the angel when you put her in that

room. >> that was our goal. >> when is the last time you saw sam? >> dan told rachel the same story that he had told detectives. >> there's nothing you can do at this point to make it better. >> he can be truthful with us, truthful with you and truthful with everyone. >> detective spoke with rachel alone. rachel told them she and dad had received -- dan had received an eviction notice. she said dan told her only recently that he borrowed money from dangerous people. >> he told me the people were going to break his legs and he was scared out of his mind. >> she said on the day that dan was supposed to pay the 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 up together and then dan came back alone but with money.

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

rachel went to her parents home to tell them dan was in jail and the wedding was off. >> my mom has lost it. she cannot speak. >> today was about to get a lot more traumatic. back of the police station dan asked to speak with detectives again. this time he says something that blew the case wide open. >> i am crazy and i did it. >> you did what? >> i killed julie and i killed sam. >> you didn't see that coming. >> no. >> daniel wozniak that only confess he did not help sam herr, he killed him. he said they drove to a theater where he performed and dan asks sam to help move something from the attic. >> he bent down. i grabbed the gun and i shot him. >> so wozniak says he fired again. >> he started bleeding. he wasn't moving. he wasn't talking.

>> dan then drove to a different theater later that evening to appear on stage with rachel in the musical "nine." in this video he showed no signs of stress as he played the starring role. dan told police during the show he texted julie from sam's phone, pretending to be sam. after the play dan said he went to sam's apartment and the word julie into sam's bedroom. sam' and to splitting her pants with a pair of scissors. dan admitted scrolling the nasty words on julie's back and his splitting her pants with a pair of scissors. the next day he said he disposed of sam's body and then gave another pitch perfect performance captured on videotape. detectives asks why? >> and your motive behind killing sam was?

>> money and insanity. >> okay. >> 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. police delivered the news to sam's parents. their son had been murdered. >> for whatever reason i said at least he wasn't dismembered. the next morning i get a call. if that's the for if i'm not we want to let you know sam was dismembered. that is when i lost it. >> daniel 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 whole new light on dan's leading lady, rachel

buffett. >> coming up, a witness. >> something was terrifying in the field of the room and i wanted out of there. >> and a new suspect. >> we were shocked to learn it. rachel didn't tell us any of this the day before. >> when dateline continues. ore. >> when dateline continues. ixe, the #1 prescribed biologic by dermatologists and allergists, that helps heal your skin from within. serious allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems such as eye pain or vision changes including blurred vision, joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection. don't change or stop asthma medicines without talking to your doctor. ask your eczema specialist about dupixent.

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i'm andrea canning. dan wozniak confessed to police that he killed sam herr for his money >> welcome back to dateline. i am andrea canning. daniel wozniak confessed to police that he killed sam herr for his money and maybe -- later shot julie kibuishi to muddy the investigation. 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 rachel to center stage. once again here is josh mankiewicz with final curtain. [ music ] >> california draws people who want to perform. if it sure does. everyone is kind of pursuing the same dreams. >> chris williams moved from canada to california for school. >> i end up falling in love with jazz music in california. i've been down here 20 years.

i perform and i love it. >> in early 2010 chris was undergoing some serious health problems. the working musician did not have insurance of his friends organized a benefit concert. >> a couple thousand people showed up. it was pretty amazing. >> raising money to keep you healthy, and it worked. >> it sure did. it changed my whole life. >> crystal have been keeping to himself began to socialize again. he met two struggling young actors, dan wozniak and rachel buffett. >> dan was very charming? >> he was. i felt like we had a lot in common. rachel is obviously beautiful. they were very welcoming to me. >> chris soon learned his new

friends have financial troubles. he offered to help by lending the money. >> all of my friends had just done this big benefit for me. >> time to give back. >> yeah. >> chris also wanted to make sure he got his money back. chris told a story that was 100% false. >> i said well i cannot lend you the money personally, but i know people that i could get it from. they are not good people. we've got to get it back. >> he let dan and rachel $2000 cash. dan promised to pay him back by the end of the week, friday, may 21. on the appointed day chris rolled to danna rachel's apartment. who is there besides dan, rachel and you? >> i didn't know his name at

the time. it was sam. >> dan left with them and talk with the back with rachel. >> in my mind this is going to be a 10 minute thing. >> meanwhile rachel seemed stressed. >> she's on the computer trying to look for other work and ways to get money. >> three hours later dan wozniak returned without sam. >> he throws this $400 down right in front of me. he is like shaking and there is this wild look in his eyes. he's almost like in a giant panic attack. i go hey, everything is okay, man. everything's okay. he is like, he slumps down in the chair. i said is this every penny that you have? >> chris said he handed dan at $20 bill. he also noticed that rachel was visibly angry. >> things were tense. >> so that relationship was like a clenched fist? >> yeah. something was terrifying in the

feel of the room. i just wanted out of there. >> he left. around 20 minutes later rachel called. >> rachel goals i think you left a 20 here, i think you drop some money. you should come back. i said i'm not coming back. i didn't drop a 20. i left a 20 so you guys could get dinner. she goes you should come back. >> chris did not return. one week later as he was getting ready to attend danna rachel's wedding he heard about the murders of sam and julie and realized they happened on the same day as his we are meeting with danna rachel. chris immediately called police. >> we were shocked. again, we went back to rachel didn't tell us any of this the day before. >> detectives interviewed

rachel again. this time not as a witness, as i suspect. >> why don't you tell me why you forgot to tell me about this? >> 'cause' honestly i was afraid if you knew chris has signified a, i don't know who chris knows. >> you didn't think that we were not going to find out? >> i guess not. >> remember, chris had told danna rachel the money he led them from other people, dangerous people. so was it her safety rachel was worried about? detectives didn't think so. >> she's giving her some more time to think about what she's going to tell us when she has to. >> and she's protecting dan. >> herself and dan. >> they asked her to take a voice stress analyzer. rachel agreed and the cops hit her with an aggressive question.

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chris loaned money and on the day he came to collect he said the feeling in the room was terrifying. it turns out that was the same day julie kibuishi and sam herr have been killed. rachel never told police about the meeting with chris and now they wanted to know why. once again here is josh mankiewicz with final curtain. >> a reluctant rachel buffett took a voice stress analyzer. the results were less than encouraging. >> i gave you three test today. all three are deceptive. >> i know that my stories and timelines are mixed up because my mind is not there. i am trying to remember everything i can. i am completely innocent. >> maybe. now detectives smelled blood. they circled back to that friday when dan left with sam and came back without him. >> is gone for 3 hours and comes back having a heart

attack. you know he's out killing sam. >> i thought that he was just overreacting because he was afraid of loan sharks. >> rachel insisted she known -- had no nothing about the murders until dan confessed. detective everett 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 and feeding off of each other and she was waiting for her next line. >> remember, rachel and julie have been friends. her reaction when she heard what sam supposedly did to julie did not seem to match that. >> comsar that i'm not the kind of person who just goes berserk and loses their mind when they hear this. >> you weren't in shock. >> the young actress was not convincing her audience.

everett learned dan had called rachel for -- from jail before the confession. which of course recorded those calls. >> listen to me. i am going to go do something right now and you are 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 response is no. 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. was it just that rachel was figuring things out? >> what did you do? >> i think you know what i did. >> were you the one that killed them? >> dan didn't answer. instead he asked rachel to come down to the station so she could be present when he spoke with detectives.

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

and i grabbed wesley and we took money out of his account. >> how -- how is wesley involved? >> rachel did not seem to react. instead she asked about dan's unwilling accomplice wesley. when dan described killing julie rachel continue to focus on details. >> i open up a door of sam's apartment and i shot her twice in the back of the head. >> how did nobody hear the gun? he met i don't know. i got lucky. >> detectives wondered if rachel knew about the murders before they happened? more disturbing, did she participate? >> i think she might've been present when julie was killed. i don't think julie would've gone into the apartment with dan by herself. you don't look at a disney princess as a hardened, cold-

blooded murder. >> of course thinking it and proving it were two different things. perhaps rachel was just another victim of dance murder plot. there was no physical evidence placing her at the scene of either murder. she and dan both insisted she did not know about them in advance. >> two years into the investigation we made a determination we didn't have enough to charge her for murder. >> and that on november 20, 2012 rachel was arrested and charged as an accessory to murder after the fact. the only case against her is that she didn't tell the truth. >> that's right. >> according to the d.a. rachel lot about two important figures in the case. the man in the black cat who was not there and the jazz magician who was. >> you find out about chris. what affected rachel's lives really have? >> yes in the end we have ruined police officers who

solve the case anyway. is it okay for her to lie to the police? the law says no. >> likely sam and julie's parents also thought rachel was more involved than she was letting on. >> they are literally 24/7 together. how could you not know if your fiance committed that kind of crime? how could you not notice? >> i wanted them to charge her with murder. i am not the one who has to prove it. that is not my job. >> rachel pleaded not guilty. she posted bail and was released. >> later that day she held a press conference. >> are you saying you are innocent? >> completely. >> she was willing to bet that a jury would agree. >> coming up rachel on trial. >> are you an honest person? >> i think so.

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detectives believe she had lied to them to protect dan. now the couple faced separate trials. two grieving families, with a finally learned the truth? here is josh mankiewicz with the conclusion of final curtain. >> in december 2015, five years after sam and julie's murders, the lives of two young actors were playing out not onstage, but here in court. dan wozniak went on trial first. it didn't take long for a jury to convict him of murder and sentenced him to death. he is appealing his conviction. sam and julie's parents confronted the children's killer. >> you are a coward and a poster board for the need of the effective death penalty in california. my only regret is that in this state you won't let me kill this coward myself. >> you took advantage of my

daughter's kindness and her care for her friend. you took her precious life and then you disgraced or by pulling off her pants. her pant. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): the spotlight then to you my daughter was just ela decoy and nothing else. >> the spotlight then turned to rachel buffett. she faced a felony charge, accessory after the fact. >> police and prosecutors do not believe you are honest with them. were you on this? >> i was. i know my heart. god is in control and god knows i am innocent. >> are you an honest person? if i think so. to the best of my capabilities. i told the truth to try to help the police get to the bottom of things. my heart was always in the right place. >> dan kills sam.

dan disposes of sam's body and lures julie to sam's apartment. dan kills julie. during all that time you never suspect a thing? >> not a thing. >> in september 2018 eight years after the murders the aspiring actress went on trial, accused of lying to protect the man she loves. >> this is my name. this is my life, my entire future. i have nothing to hide. >> some of her former friends did not agree and testified against her. >> knowing all the details 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 him to shut up. that is not what happened. you are messed up. your memory

is growing up my story. >> the jury also heard from chris williams the jazz musician who spent hours with rachel the day of the murders. like detectives, chris thinks rachel was an accessory for the murders and notches after. >> there is not a doubt in my mind that rachel knew ahead of time. not a doubt. >> chris also came to believe that rachel called him and asked him to come back to the apartment it was not to return his $20. >> the police said if you would've gone back that day they wanted to kill you. >> because you are a loose end? >> what i believe is that when dan got back rachel said chris saw you with sam. >> of course that was suspicion and not evidence. the trial focus 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 murder to that equation and then an arrest of rachel's soon-to-be husband. >> the incredible stress she was under with all of these things occurring, is it possible she's not entirely accurate about certain things? of course it is. >> rachel's actions could be explained, he said, the dan wozniak's did not. >> wozniak is a monster, a psychopath and a pathological liar. what he did to those two is unthinkable. rachel had nothing to do with that. >> as she did, said prosecutor matt murphy. she lied trying to help dan get away with murder. >> everything that mr. medina just said about dan wozniak is

accurate. he is a pathological liar. he is a monster, but he is her little mark. she knows him and all of this stuff goes on right under her nose. >> the jury took five hours to reach a verdict. >> we the jury find the defendant rachel buffett guilty . >> when you heard the sounds of the clicks of the cuffs, to me it was a sweet sound. her arrogance and her lies have now caught up with her. >> sam and julie's parents spoken rachel sentencing. >> as part of my sons body lie dead and dismembered in the alley rachel buffett was running lies. as julie kibuishi was lying in my son's apartment she was deliberately deceiving the police, attempting to throw them off the trail of her lover, dan wozniak. >> to me you and that monster

are two peas in a pod. you are both self-centered and truly heartless. 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've done something. i walked out and i went i did something to help. that's all i wanted. >> what two families wanted were answers and some relief from their pain. those answers finally came. >> i'm pretty much satisfied with the answers right now. i'll never prove anything 100%, but i am 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'm getting old and you forget a lot of stuff, but those things. i don't want to forget her image and her voice. it is hard. no matter how many years passed by. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i am andrea canning. thank you for watching. for wat >> hello and good sunday morning to you. we are al