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Been accused of this before. and you think, okay, this guy is potentially very dangerous. he's out there on the street. >> reporter: then came a break. sam's atm card was being used. $400 withdrawn about 17 miles north of the crime scene. and security cameras captured the person who was waiting as the cash came out. it was the start of a whole new mystery. >> coming up -- >> we were pretty confident he was our guy. >> but sam's father was convinced he wasn't. and determined to prove it, he turns amateur detective. >> i said, okay, we've got movement here. let me see. ♪ we would walk on the s...

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. >> reporter: 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 evening. and when they searched his name in the law enforcement databases, they ...

Rachel says when she was called to the police station interview room a few days later. she was shocked when dan, whose story was still evolving, told her his elaborate tale of helping sam cover up a murder. >> there's nothing he can do at this point to -- >> sure, sure, absolutely. >> -- to make it better? >> absolutely. he can tell be truthful with us. >> you know, i was just like speechless at this time. i'm kind of on overload. and in shock and also growing angry. >> reporter: but if you watch the tape, rachel seems rather calm. >> why did you lie to me? what does noah have to do with any o...

>> dan's brother and his girlfriend pull up and kind of wave us down. and so i get out and i walk up to the car window and tell them, you know, dan's been arrested, yada, yada, yada. and he freaks out and has this like look of fear in his eye. >> reporter: a short time later her phone rang. it was dan calling from his jail cell. the call recorded by police. >> what did you do? >> i helped sam cover some stuff up and helped him get some drugs. that's it. i didn't murder anybody. >> babe, why on earth would you try and cover for him? >> because we needed the money. >> no. we never need money. we...

Her? >> i normally do, but the thing was, though, she was with her brother and then happened to be that saturday it was my youngest daughter's senior prom. and then when i woke up and then when i didn't see her, i was like okay. >> reporter: by now, it was saturday morning. june texted julie. no response. then she called julie. still no answer. so june called her son taka. >> so when i called him, he -- he was like, what? >> reporter: taka told his mom about sam's texts. >> i started to get this little kind of my -- you know, weird feeling that, i started to feel like, okay, this is something'...