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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...

Court, the prosecutor since she would need something she didnt yet have. its 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 maintain that daniel played no role in -- sams murder. >> this is possibly a active chivalry? >> i think one of his motivations, if not his -- motivation was trying to protect the women that he loved. >> did you say to him, why are you prot...

Her upstairs neighbor, dianne mcknight also tried to aid the victim. >> there was just blood everywhere. and i didnt -- i just didnt know what to do. i ran back into my apartment and got towels. >> as the minutes ticked by, trish began to worry the shooter might still be in the area. >> then all of a sudden, you start to think, wow, i wonder where the person is that did this and for all i knew, the person upstairs shot him. >> but those questions would have to wait. soon paramedics arrived on th...

Sam, man-to-man. he wanted to come clean about his love for danielle. >> he wants to the confront sam basically tell him that hes the other man. >> i concocted this scheme to go up there and tell him you know, yeah, im seeing your wife. >> that day, michael said he tracked sam down and found him in the parking lot of dianes apartment complex. he also said he brought a gun because will he no idea how sam would react. >> hes bigger than me so i just brought my firearm, you know? i intended to go u...

And said, hey, i want to tell you the truth. i want to tell you what part she had in it. that never happened. >> reporter: 2 1/2 years after shooting sam, michael minor agreed to plead guilty to second degree murder. >> and it will live with me forever, and it will haunt me forever. >> reporter: in exchange for his plea, michael received a sentence of 30 years. >> i would not give him anything less than that. i mean, he pulled the trigger. and he didnt pull it once. he pulled it four times. >> i...

And said, hey, i want to tell you the truth. i want to tell you what part she had in it. that never happened. >> reporter: 2 1/2 years after shooting sam, michael minor agreed to plead guilty to second degree murder. >> and it will live with me forever, and it will haunt me forever. >> reporter: in exchange for his plea, michael received a sentence of 30 years. >> i would not give him anything less than that. i mean, he pulled the trigger. and he didnt pull it once. he pulled it four times. >> i...

I want to tell you what part she had in it. that never happened. >> reporter: 2 1/2 years after shooting sam, michael minor agreed to plead guilty to second degree murder. >> and it will live with me forever, and it will haunt me forever. >> reporter: in exchange for his plea, michael received a sentence of 30 years. >> i would not give him anything less than that. i mean, he pulled the trigger. and he didnt pull it once. he pulled it four times. >> i was glad that he was going to jail. michael ...

Sam, man-to-man. he wanted to come clean about his love for danielle. >> he wants to the confront sam basically tell him that hes the other man. >> i concocted this scheme to go up there and tell him you know, yeah, im seeing your wife. >> that day, michael said he tracked sam down and found him in the parking lot of dianes apartment complex. he also said he brought a gun because will he no idea how sam would react. >> hes bigger than me so i just brought my firearm, you know? i intended to go u...

Mcknight also tried to aid the victim. >> there was just blood everywhere. and i didnt -- i just didnt know what to do. i ran back into my apartment and got towels. >> as the minutes ticked by, trish began to worry the shooter might still be in the area. >> then all of a sudden, you start to think, wow, i wonder where the person is that did this and for all i knew, the person upstairs shot him. >> but those questions would have to wait. soon paramedics arrived on the scene. they learned the vict...