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court, the prosecutor since she would need something she didn't yet have. it's 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 -- sam's 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 protecting her? >> yes. he said, i'm not, i'm not protecting her. >> -- contact us through his lawyers and said, hey, i want to tell you the truth. i want to tell you about she had didn't. that's never happened. >> two and a half years -- shooting sam -- michael minor agreed to plead no contest to second-degree murder. >> it will live with me forever and it will haunt me forever.
and so -- of michael and headed to the hospital where daniel had been waiting for updates on sam's condition. all daniel have been told us in had been shot. no one told her by whom. >> when i get over there, she was crying, she was very upset. >> detectives recorded interview. >> trying to piece together where it all -- >> at first detective -- revealed what he knew about daniels lover, or that it was michael who shot -- and instead he started by asking daniel about her marriage to sam. he candidly described as troubled. >> we have but not getting long for many months. danielle also explained that she knew sam was having an affair, despite sam's best efforts to conceal it. >> did you know where he went? today? >> sure he went to his girlfriend. >> daniel admitted that she too
>> no, went down with her. >> for the time being szalbirak, left daniel to be at the hospital to be with sam's family. it was up to daniel to reveal the identity of the shooter and explain the sorted details of how she was connected to him. >> she said, i need you to sit down i have something to tell you. and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. >> first, cindy learns and mcdaniel were getting a divorce. then the baton yell and sam were having affairs. most shocking of all, it was danielle's lover who shot sam. >> did i just hear what i just heard? >> for adults and snared by lies and deceit. one clinging to life. but this tangled story was about to get a whole lot more twisted. >> coming up -- >> danielle was just totally obsessed with what sam was doing. which went beyond anything that i've seen before in investigations. >> when dateline continues with a potent blend of nutrients
>> the detectives wanted to know, if this was an accident, why did michael shoot sam? >> we had all these pieces of the puzzle and he's trying to fit them altogether. >> when michael revealed something that would turn the case on his head -- told detectives about an affair. but it wasn't an affair between sam and diane. it was an affair he was having with the victim's wife, danielle dreher. >> he had been having an affair for four years. >> who is a mind spinning moment. -- had just discovered the victim, sam, had been cheating on his wife daniel. 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 palmer, 13 years younger than daniel, told him the two head madden actually madison, a website for husbands and wives looking to cheat. the website slogan? life is short, have an affair.
fraivillig has prosecuted, she and the case of sam dreher's murderous specially frustrating. >> it's hard to remain -- unemotional at a martyr. -- except following of with another woman. >> michael minor may have shot sam, but prosecutor -- believed daniel manipulated him to do it. and that her motive it was more than just money. >> -- was a financial motive, certainly. it's probably just the most overarching motive, which just jealousy, despite the fact he was conducting an affair of her own, i think that you just completely enraged that sam started -- on her as well. >> in order to prove that in
he also said he brought a gun, but had no idea how sam would react. >> -- i brought my firearm. -- up there and scare him. >> according to michael, his mano a mano with sam didn't go as planned, and when samsung michael -- he fled. >> don't run. -- trying to force -- to talk to me. >> michael ran -- sam up the stairs -- he said -- while the two were in the stairwell, sam turned -- >> michael claims that he was in fear, and close his eyes and just fired -- >> then he comes towards me and i just -- close my eyes and just pulled the freaking trigger. i'm so sorry. >> with all the things he's tell you -- relationship with daniel, do you start to think, we need to talk to danielle giroir? >> the next step -- daniel story.
deadly, one of the four lovers gunned down. >> it obviously -- was random. waiting at the scene and with a strange story, and where detectives, a strange video. >> how could -- that video. >> it was very creepy. an affair to remember, an affair to forget. and one more script still to be revealed. -- >> -- >> hello and, welcome to dateline. by appearances, sam and daniel drearier had a storied marriage and then one tragic afternoon their world came down, destroyed by a series of bullets -- as investigators began to dig,
and he deserve to be happy. >> come down pretty hard on daniel for here. sam was also having an affair. >> yes. >> do you condemn him for that behavior, as well? >> no. i don't think he intended to meet someone. i don't think he intended to have an affair. he met diane dianne, he had known or three months. that's a far cry and a world apart from danielle seeking a man on ashley madison and having a long term affair with him for four years. >> in the weeks following the funeral, the detectives continue their investigation. to have their shooter. but they also had lingering questions about whether danielle had somehow been involved. >> obviously, first things come to mind is the wife has a hand in this. she's linked and she's got to have something to do. >> and as mcdonald and shell
>> -- so that danielle -- other staff. she somehow -- associated. >> i think she is. >> -- dreher -- as much if not -- responsible for the man that shot him. >> cindy told detectives -- hatred -- only motive. but that she was also -- age-old incentive. >> i believe it was the money, to divorce the half of it. -- to get down with it. i think it was money. i think it was always money. >> just over 1 million dollars, and in fact. >> it was a substantial amount of money that she was going to gain if sam turned up dead. and that's exactly what happened. >> we asked daniel to sit down this for an interview. both she and her attorney declined. but during danielle's interview with the detectives, she methodically denied having anything to do with sam's murder. >> i >> would never kill my husband. i would never kill another
curiosity. >> i had to see for myself that it was a girl. it broke my heart. >> how did you -- >> i don't know why. -- >> that's the question, right? we were doing it for years. and why did break your heart -- >> i think i still love my husband, i have feelings for him. >> what's more, daniel said she and michael had stopped their spying before the shooting. detectives also asked about those text messages, which they found so troubling. daniel said they were all in fun. the first question danielle about the text michael center. >> i want to -- his head off and then put two in her, just for good measure. do you remember him saying that? >> i don't. >> -- >> but he said it before. things like i will kill -- bleep -- >> -- >> they then asked danielle about the messages she sent back to him. >> i'm so close to introducing them -- to daisy. >> i remember that i didn't