Okay. This affair became a game. A wife and her lover spying on her husband and his lover. You just think what else have they done. And then this spy game turned deadly. One of the four lovers was gunned down. This obviously was not something random. Waiting at the scene a man with a strange story. And waiting for detectives, a strange video. How creepy was that video . Very creepy. An affair to remember. He was the one. An affair to forget. I shouldnt have done it. And one more secret still to be revealed. She said i need you to sit down. I have something to tell you. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. Hello and welcome to dateline. By all appearances sam and danielle had a storybook marriage. Then one tragic afternoon their world came crashing down destroyed by a series of bullets and a senseless killing. As investigators began to dig, they realized not all was as it seemed. Theyd entered a thorny maze of marital betrayal. Heres Andrea Canning with tangled web. Sarasota, flor
in the bushes. detectives said the couple only got bolder there. they discovered evidence michael had brazenly broken into diane s apartment and videotaped the inside. inside the belly of the beast. i believe his first words were i m, in the valley of the beast. it is first thing where he hands over, with the alarm pad, where ways armed unarmed. that could have been bad, right? as michael documented every aspect of dianne s personal life, poking around her drawers, her refrigerator, even inside her bathroom police said danielle played look out. but in this text message to michael, daniel wright, get out of there if you aren t already. getting bad feeling. he s doing it at their quest, basically, have danielle. but what detectives found most alarming where the text
have an affair? no. dianne told the detectives that her affair with sam started as a fair so often do with an innocent encounter at the bar told him that i was. i m like, what about you? he said yes, married. in fact, sam had been for 13 years. but according to diane it took just 14 months for the feelings with mutual. why is it about and that made you fall hard? he was just a thoughtful person. he was comforting. and i just couldn t to always be around him. did you still feel a little guilty? oh but i and said there were already issues in her marriage. i just thought, if i m doing this, my marriage is definitely already over. a few months after the
something that troubled her one evening, just a month before the shooting. a man standing in the woods across the lake, staring at the building. i thought to myself, that that was an odd thing. who would just be standing there? it actives then turn to trish is diane mcknight. they learned diane was holding on to a secret. turns out the witness, diane mcknight, was a lot more than just a witness. she was very important to this case. yes, she was. dianne revealed that she knew sam, intimately. she admitted that they were boyfriend and girlfriend. she had stated that they had only been dating for a few months. and stated that they were enough. so sam was having an affair? yes. which is why sam was at the apartment complex that day. there s some infidelity going on and there s cause for concern. did you ever think that you would be the kind of person to
her apartment. sounded like somebody being chased. and then i heard somebody yell, oh god, no. the unmistakable sound of gunshots followed. four of them in quick succession. trish immediately called 9-1-1. 9-1-1, was the location of emergency? i just heard gunshots. and somebody screaming outside and somebody running outside. i think my heart was probably going a gazillion miles a minute. trish slowly paired out of her apartment door and saw a man lying in the stairwell, believing. she knew he was an a resident of the apartment complex. i had no idea who he was. my concern was to get him over on his side, because he was face down and in a really big pool of blood. trish wasn t the only one at the scene. her upstairs neighbor, dianne mcknight, also try to aid the victim. there is just blood everywhere. and i just didn t know what to do. i ran back into my apartment