dancer, college student, and free spirit, julie kibuishi. born in southern california, thriving in the golden sunshine, respecting her japanese heritage but thoroughly embracing what it means to be 23 along the beaches sun-soaked orange county, california. >> i would say julie is definitely an all-american japanese girl. she liked to sometimes bow, just for kindness. >> reporter: kindness. that's the word you hear over and over to describe julie. a quality no one ever expected could be her undoing. >> 911. >> there's a body in my son's apartment. >> is it female or male? >> female. >> reporter: it couldn't be julie -- could it? the innocent, lively, creative young woman with a big circle of friends, most of them known well by her parents. >> and her friends and the people she hung out with, never any danger. >> no. >> reporter: nothing really for a mother to worry about. >> my kids, they didn't go anywhere that they should not go. >> reporter: but mom had never met the new man in julie's life, 26-year-old sam herr, older and much more experie

>> reporter: prosecutor matt murphy challenges the jury to honor sam herr and julie kibuishi and punisisthe man who not only killed them, but desecrated them. >> danny wozniak treated him like trash. he treated julie like trash. so the question that i ask you to answer, in your verdicts, are they? >> reporter: daniel wozniak's defense is that he is not the worst of the worst, that he is deserves to live, to reform. >> he has it in him, and he's going to make a difference. is that a mitigating factor to you that warrants life? i hope so. >> reporter: back in the jury room, the vote for death is split. >> it's very different, when you are the one sitting there almost literally pulling the trigger to decide it. >> reporter: the initial vote, 10-2, death. but when the jury's thoughts turn to the surviving families, the doubt melts away. >> steve herr. the rage, the anger that he had on that stand during the penalty phase, that was just overwhelming. when they showed the photograph of the funeral for sam. >> reporter: his life was real to you. >> absolutely, mrs. kibuishi. you know, when she's t

the senseless murder of an innocent near-stranger, julie kibuishi. >> julie is basically being killed, it's horrific. >> reporter: and here's what you didn't know until now. after killing him, dan wozniak takes sam's phone and sends julie those urgent texts to lure her to her death. >> julie was wearing, like, a crown tiara. she had just come from her brother's. i said, well, i have a key. let's go in. >> and? >> and then said, oh, by the way, did you see this in sam's bed? and when she was leaned over i put two bullets in the back of her head. >> why did you feel you had to kill julie? what was the rationale behind that? >> seriously, to cover up sam. >> how would that cover up sam? >> to make it look like he was on the run and he did it. >> his plan is to make sam herr look like not only just a killer, but a rapist and a crook. his plan is to destroy his memory and destroy his reputation. >> the search continues here in a heavily wooded area of this park. >> we had search teams broken up into different quadrants. some went out this way, some went back here, some went in this part of

f an innocent near-stranger, julie kibuishi. >> julie is basically being killed to cover this thing up. ean, it's horrific. >> reporter: and here's what you didn't know until now. after killing him, dan wozniak nds julie those urgent texts to lure her to her death. >> julie was wearing, like, a crown tiara. she had just come from her brother's. have a key. let's go in. >> and? >> and then said, oh, by the bed? and when she was leaned over i put two bullets in the back of her head.u had to kill julie? that? >> seriously, to cover up sam. r up sam? >> to make it look like he was on the run and he did it. >> his plan is to make sam herr look like not only just a nd a crook. memory and destroy his reputation.s here in a heavily wooded area of this park. >> we had search teams broken up into different quadrants. , some went back here, some went in this part of the park. >> i transported them inside the backpack. i got plastic bags from mimi's cafe , put them in the backpack.e able to just full of body parts? >> he came in with just plastic trash bags and then kind of dug shallow holes and c

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