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You know, a lot of times. >> reporter: sam was a war veteran. he'd fought in afghanistan and made it home to california after three years overseas. sam lived across the street from the college at an apartment complex. >> it's not a dorm, but i would call it a college dorm. >> reporter: sam's good friend, ruben, often hung out there with sam. >> and the poolside always had people, you know, drinking and having fun. having fun at the pool. >> reporter: but despite his surroundings, sam was focused. >> he seemed more responsible. he seemed like he had, like, more of a plan on where he was going. ...

F-you." 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. it 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. >> reporter: june could barely absorb what she was hearing. julie was dead. and the only logical suspect was her college friend, sam. >> 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 a...

Anything. it's just like, you know, i can't even leave the message. so i called the irvine police. and then -- >> reporter: and what did they say? >> oh, she's 23? okay. well, she might be in -- drinking at the bar, or like you know, it's -- excuse me. >> reporter: no, said june. not her daughter. julie was always quick to respond to her texts or phone calls. across town, about 20 miles away from the kibuishis, sam's parents, steve and raquel herr also worried because they couldn't get a hold of sam. >> i thought it was a little odd that when i called his phone, it went directly to the answeri...

Here in orange county, california, their third child came as a pleasant surprise. >> doctor kept telling me it was another boy. but, voila, she was born on valentine's day. >> reporter: two big brothers had preceded her. >> first place. >> reporter: so naturally, it was julie who became an all-star softball player as a young girl. but her passion was dance. she grew into a beautiful dancer and a remarkable young lady with the kindest of hearts. >> and that can kind of sometimes frustrated me. okay, you're too nice. but you know, that's how she was. >> reporter: and that is how she met sam herr...

So who was it? cops staked out the atm hoping the mystery man would return. they also went to the pizza parlor where an employee told them that he thought he knew the person who bought the pizza and the detectives got a possible address. >> we're set up at that point on the house. we have surveillance teams behind the house on each corner of the house. we're geared up. we got our raid vests on. >> reporter: while surveillance teams hoped and waited, detectives questioned people in sam's circle. neighbors rachel buffett and her fiance dan wozniak already knew about the body found in sam's apart...