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>> there may be but please question me and any gaps that i, i want to fill. absolutely. >> as far as your participation in this thing. >> as far as my participation? >> yeah. >> okay. >> talk to me. >> i am, officer. >> huh? >> yes, i helped him get away. yes, i knew that he had killed someone, and, yes, i knew that -- >> stop. stop right there. stop right there. >> they circled back to the dna. >> we got your dna. >> yes. >> okay? where's that dna going to be showing up? >> in sam's car. >> what about on julie? >> no, it wouldn't be on julie. >> you sure about that? >> yes, i'm positive about that. >> did you see julie dead in the apartment? >> no, i did not. no, i did not. no. >> you better think about that.

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sam herr's apartment. and then he -- i think he said, your daughter's body was found or something like that. and then i just -- i think i was screaming like, no, no, that's not my daughter. you know. it's not my daughter. >> julie had been shot twice in the head. her pants were down to her knees. and someone had written on her sweatshirt the words "all yours f-u." she was still wearing the tiara her brother had given her the night before. >> but i was still in disbelief of, you know, it was not my daughter. just can't be my daughter. i wanted to see, and they didn't allow me to see. they said i wasn't allowed to go. >> june could barely absorb what she was hearing. julie was dead. and the only logical suspect was her college friend, sam.

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that's what? that's bull? >> that's bull, yeah. >> you had no idea what he was going to say. >> that's correct. >> rachel said she didn't know that dan had murdered sam and julie until he called her from his jail cell to confess. and that's first time you knew about it? >> that's correct. >> investigators found more reasons to suspect rachel. for example, the way she echoed dan's claim that sam was having family problems. sam's parents and friends all say that was a lie. your repeating that story is being taken by police and prosecutors as an example of you continuing to advance a narrative that your boyfriend set up to make the murder happen. >> well, two things. i told them that, yeah, dan said it, but also i think sam confirmed it. like sam also told me that or confirmed it in some way. i don't understand why people think it's odd that i would use the same language or terminology that dan had used. because obviously i'd heard it, you know. >> detectives also wondered why,

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phone and then drove to the theater to face an audience. in this video, shot by a cast member's husband that very night, you can see dan and his fiancee rachel performing in the musical "nine." this was a different theater from where sam herr's body now lay. and dan, who had just committed murder hours earlier, showed no signs of stress as he played the starring role apparently effortlessly. dan told police that during the show, backstage, he texted julie from sam's phone pretending to be sam. those were the odd texts that interrupted julie's dinner at her brother's house. >> i was saying, you need to come over tonight. you need to come over tonight. >> uh-huh. >> no sex, just i need you to come over tonight. >> after his twin performances, one onstage, and the other as sam herr, dan drove back to the apartment complex and waited. julie arrived, wearing the tiara her brother had given her that evening. >> i said like, sam just called me, and he was going through some stuff. she said, yeah, me, too.

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sinker. >> all of it so well done it was hard to tell what was real and what was an illusion. >> i just remember his performance being -- it was very, very real. >> this is a story of a man who seemed to be at the end of his rope. >> it looked like he was having some sort of panic attack or heart attack. >> but on this stage at the final curtain, the darkness remained. because this story wouldn't win any awards. this was all real life. >> julie is my first daughter. she was my valentine baby. >> for june and masa kibuishi, a japanese couple who built their american dream here in orange county, california, their third child came as a pleasant surprise. >> doctor kept telling me it was another boy.

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the head. that was, that was your, that your -- >> that's not what i meant. that's not what i meant. i apologize. >> dan was getting tangled up in his story. first he said he only helped sam after the fact. then he admitted he'd seen julie's body. he also contradicted himself, first saying sam told him about the bullet wounds, then saying he, dan, had seen them. with every slip, dan seemed to put himself closer to the actual murder. dan says he could see two gunshot wounds? >> yep. >> meaning he was there when she got killed. >> yep. that's when the lightbulb went off. >> but dan still insisted he had nothing to do with julie's murder. but now he admitted he did help sam clean up the scene. >> went into his apartment. and that's when he -- that's when i saw julie. and i freaked out. looked over and then i said, okay, what do i need to do? so we found the two shell casings.

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>> i was planning a lot of stuff to do with her. so we're going to be the buddies to go shopping or, you know, that's what i told julie. and we're planning to do that. that was right before it happened. it's so hard, you know? she was 23. >> 23 years young, and her life taken from her in the most senseless way. >> she loved to kind of design things. so she really wanted to be a stylist. >> now that would never happen. police were looking hard for sam herr. detective ed everette. >> he's on the run and he's in the wind. and now it's our job to find him and see where he's at and ask him why. >> not a whole lot of question of who the suspect was at this point. >> no. we were pretty confident he was our guy. >> steve herr was also eager to find sam but for an entirely different reason. to clear his son's name. so steve began his own

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a sort of psychic souvenir of the battlefield. sam did share that with ruben, who was also a war veteran. >> he'll tell me that, you know, sometimes he feels like -- he'll be sleeping and he'll wake up in his sleep and he'll be in a foxhole. so he'll start screaming or looking for a weapon, and he'll wake up sweating and, you know, just very stressed, i guess. yeah. >> that's tough. >> it is very tough. >> but, said ruben, sam seemed to be coping. and then came may 21st, 2010. it was a friday afternoon. julie was going to hang out with her brother taka that evening. he was getting married, and julie was helping with the wedding plans. >> then after i was cooking in the kitchen and she said, okay, bye, mom, i'm leaving. and then she -- she just went out the door. >> julie made it safely to her brother's home in long beach.

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>> she told me that he's taking the same class with her and that he told me that -- he's like big brother to me and to everybody in the class because he's a little older. and he came back from the -- afghanistan. >> this guy that she thought of as a big brother, suddenly he's the suspect. >> it was just the bizarrest. but i still couldn't connect everything together. >> what happened in sam's apartment that night was horrific. julie had gone there to help sam, and now she was dead in his bedroom. and sam was somewhere in the wind. >> all of your new best friends that you hang out with every day? one of them's missing. a body was found in one of their apartments. this is something that, like, was affecting the whole atmosphere. >> detectives soon found out sam was a war veteran, heard the stories of his night terrors. they also found julie's phone in the apartment and saw sam's text messages to her. sam seemed plenty upset that

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that wasn't guilt? >> that was acting, and, you know, you sit there and like you think of anything that's made you upset throughout the day or week when you're trying to cry for a scene. and that's what i was doing. and it was because i had had a stressful day, i guess. >> but that crying episode wasn't the only thing investigators found odd. after the two performed in "nine" that night, dan was back at home texting from sam's cell phone, ultimately luring julie kibuishi to sam's apartment. sam had a flip phone which had a very different look from dan's smartphone. you never noticed that the phone he was texting on was not his regular phone? >> no, i didn't. >> and then there was the couple's shared computer in the apartment. the computer on which police later found searches for how to hide a body and quick ways to kill people. you ever see any indication that he had searched for anything relating to murder or

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