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>> hello. im ann canning. and this is dateline. -- >> told me he love me. i loved him -- he said hed be back. >> id hear a motion of some sort. and then i remember, hearing gunshots. >> -- one there. >> its the website where -- to meet and cheat. >> its someone looking to have an affair. >> but this affair was about so much more defeat. >> -- the affair became a game, a wife and her -- spying on her husband and his lover -- >> you just think, what have they done? >> and that the spy sp...

i told him i loved him. he said he would be right back. i could hear a commotion of some sort. and then i remember hearing gunshots. looking to see him lying there, it was bad. >> its the website were lovers go to meet and cheat. >> this was someone looking to have an affair. >> but this affair was about so much more than deceit. >> you couldnt write this as a movie. you couldnt write this as a book. >> this affair became a game. a wife and her lover, spying on her husband and his love...

Cheating on his wife, danielle. now they were learning danielle had also been cheating on sam. >> everybody here is involved with somebody else. it was interesting to say the least. >> and challenging for detectives who now had to contend with a second affair. michael minor, the plumber, 13 years younger than danielle, told them the two had met on ashley madison, a website for husbands and wives looking to cheat. the websites slogan? life is short, have an affair. >> this was someone looking to ...

Sure. after all, michael shot sam not once but four times. >> one of the shots was to the back of sams head. >> so sam is laying here and michael is right on top of him basically giving him the final shot? >> he would have had to have been. thats what the evidence indicates. >> one shot might have been an accident. not the three or four shots that he actually fired. that was not accident at all. >> but detectives wanted to know if this wasnt an accident, why then did michael shoot sam? >> got al...

One of my brothers supposed fire brothers. >> reporter: whats your advice to this guy, this firefighter? >> watch your back, you know. the last two guys involved with danielle, ones dead, ones in prison. >> reporter: as for dianne, shes now left to reflect on a life with sam that could have been. did you two talk about marriage? >> yes. >> reporter: and was that in the cards? >> oh, absolutely. >> reporter: did you ever feel like im being punished for having this affair? >> oh, yes. i might have...

With every inch of me. revenge will be mine and it will be very, very sweet. >> it was very obvious that danielle had some kind of hatred toward him. that there was -- she wanted to hurt them. >> and based on the text messages, it seemed clear to detectives that she had persuaded michael to feel the same way. >> i absolutely think she poisoned michaels mind as far as what sam was. everything he knew about sam was that he was a violent person. >> he was described to him as a drunk. as a cheater. ...

Telling you, that danielle was indirectly involved, directly involved or -- >> she wasnt involved. >> reporter: had no part in this whatsoever? >> she wasnt involved in that homicide. >> reporter: news of the decision not to prosecute danielle for sams murder made sams sister, cindy, furious. >> do i think its a tough case? yes, absolutely. but you know what? their job is not to prosecute cases that are easy. their job is to prosecute criminals. >> reporter: but just when everyone thought daniel...

Conducting an affair of her own, i think that she was just completely enraged that sam started stepping out on her as well. >> reporter: but in order to prove that in court, fraivillig felt she would need something she didnt yet have -- a statement from michael saying danielle acted as his accomplice. so she waited, thinking time would compel him to come forward and admit danielle was involved. he never did. michael maintained danielle played no role in sams murder. was this possibly a twisted a...

Refrigerator and even inside her bathroom, police said danielle played look out. in this text message to michael, danielle wrote get out of there if you arent already. getting bad feeling. >> and hes doing it at the request basically of danielle. >> but what detectives found most alarming were the text messages michael and danielle sent each other. >> michael writes i want to blow his head off and then put two on her for just good measure. >> he goes on to say bang, bang done. i wont though beca...

>> i cannot believe he did this. >> danielle went on to say she had no idea michael planned to talk to sam that day. >> so michael never said anything about going over there? >> no. >> but detectives were sceptical. they thought she knew more about michaels intentions than she was letting on. >> at this point, i dont know who to believe or not. >> youre not done with danielle. >> were not done with her. >> for the time being, it was up to danielle to reveal the identity of the shooter and explai...