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>> and steve tried to tell detectives. you said, sam couldn't do this. and police said, a, he's missing and, b, he was a suspect in a murder case once. >> correct. >> that doesn't buy you a lot of rhythm from law enforcement. >> no, and i understood that. i'm not that naive. i absolutely understood that. that's why it was imperative to start looking immediately. >> steve called sam's friend ruben to see if he had talked to sam. and ruben told him a curious story. ruben said he'd been trying to get ahold of sam, too, because sam was a no-show at a beach party. ruben called him. multiple times. ...

And dan felt he had no choice. >> and then i said, after 30 days i'll have all your full money or whatever and then you're going get the [bleep] out of my life. >> then dan told detectives he dropped sam at a shopping center parking lot in long beach. and dan said that was the last time he saw sam. he later ditched sam's car. and dan said he was sorry he had lied to police at first when he told them he last saw sam in the company of a man wearing a black cap. >> he doesn't exist. that's a lie. that's a 100% lie. i apologize for that. i just got -- i got so scared, detective, i'm sorry. >> dan ...

>> 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. >> ...

Wanted to know, what was all this about? what drove dan to do it? >> your motive behind killing sam was? >> money and insanity. >> money and insanity. [laughter] i don't know. i don't know why i did it. >> the centuries-old motive -- money. more than $60, 000, in fact. sam herr's combat pay. >> when he was deployed, basically all the money that he was earning in the military just went into a savings account. he didn't spend it when he was deployed. >> and dan wozniak wanted that money? >> yes. >> and julie kibuishi? dan said he killed her to cover his tracks and to frame sam. >> to make it loo...

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. >> 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 need to be good people and just have each other. >> i'm sorry. >...