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more [Music] our episodes deal with serious and often distressing incidents if you feel at any
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time you need support please contact your local crisis center for suggested phone numbers for confidential support
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please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website it was around dinner time on friday may
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21 2010 when julie kibuwishi received a text message can you come over tonight at midnight
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alone very upset need to talk julie typed a reply asking what was the matter after making her promise that she
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wouldn't tell anyone the sender explained that they were hurting due to some bad family crap
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a short while later julie's cell phone lit up again where are you can you come by i don't
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want to be up late it was approaching midnight when julie pulled up to the camden martinique
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apartments in the californian city of costa mesa the sprawling residential complex
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consisted of multiple low-rise buildings interspersed with winding walkways and palm trees
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after parking her car julie headed towards one of the buildings while texting hey buddy i am here i am walking to your
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place then as she reached the right floor she messaged her brother taka to let him
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know she'd arrived safely at her destination as julie typed she heard a strange sound
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from the other side of an apartment door it sounded like a person sobbing signing off her message to taka julie
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wrote sam is crying it's not good [Music] [Music] hours earlier 23 year old julie kibuishi
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had been out with her brother taka and his fiancee in long beach not far from where she lived in irvine orange county
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the trio were dining at a thai restaurant near taka's home it was a special occasion
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taka and his fiancee had a very important request to make of julie julie was born on valentine's day in
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1987 and others jokingly said that this was the reason she was a hopeless romantic
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so when julie was asked to be a bridesmaid at her brother's upcoming wedding she was overcome with the joy
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after she happily accepted the offer tucker handed his sister a tiara it was both a gift and the finishing
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touch for her bridesmaid outfit julie put it on at once after dinner the trio headed back to
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taka's home to continue chatting julie wasn't planning on staying long though during dinner her red samsung cell phone
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had lit up with text messages from a close friend named sam hare the two had met at orange coast
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community college where they both took anthropology julie had tutored sam in the subject
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helping him achieve an a in that class according to sam's texts he was having a rough night
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after some back and forth julie told sam she would leave her brother's house to visit him right away
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she respected sam's request to come alone and after a short drive julie arrived at the camden martinique
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apartments in costa mesa where sam lived the following morning junko kibuishi stood at the door to her daughter
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julie's bedroom the bed inside had not been slept in and there was no sign of julie anywhere else
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in their house it wasn't like a julie to disappear without telling her parents where she
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would be family had always been of the utmost importance to her born into a close-knit japanese-american
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household julie was the third of four children and had two older brothers when julie's mother junco was pregnant
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with her she was told that her third child would be a boy as well julie was therefore an unexpected though
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happy surprise to her parents they named her jury but as their first daughter grew older she was more
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commonly known to her friends by the americanized version of her name julie now unable to find a julie anywhere
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junko followed up with her friends but none could shed any light on where she might be
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when texts and calls to julie's cell phone continued to go unanswered junko was certain something was wrong
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and contacted the police [Laughter] at the same time that julie's family were worrying about her a couple who
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lived in the orange county neighborhood of anaheim hills were wondering where their son might be
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steve and raquel herr had been expecting a visit from their only child samuel better known as sam
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he spent many weekends with his parents who were only a 30 minute drive away from his costa mesa apartment
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raquel had spoken with sam over the phone around to lunchtime the previous day and he hadn't given any indication
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that he intended to change his plans the couple tried calling sam periodically throughout the day but his
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cell phone was switched off this seemed odd they had never known sam to turn off his
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phone by late evening steve hare was standing at the front door to his son's apartment
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using a spare key sam had given him steve let himself in to check that everything was alright
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the lights were on but all was quiet nothing looked out of place sam's apartment was a typical sparsely
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furnished bachelor pad his acoustic guitar was perched in its stand in a lounge some blankets were
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folded up at the end of the sofa and textbooks sat on a bookcase everything was neat and tidy
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in the kitchen some washed dishes had been left on a drying rack and males sat stacked on a countertop
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empty beer bottles were scattered by the barbecue out on the patio despite the seemingly normal scene in
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front of him steve felt strange as though someone else were in the apartment with him
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he called out his son's name sammy then as steve looked into sam's bedroom he was met with a horrifying sight
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alongside sam's messy and unmade bed was a young woman she was kneeling her torso sprawled over
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the mattress and her lower legs resting on the floor her jeans had been cut at the waistband
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and down through the seat before being ripped down around her knees a message had been scribbled in black
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marker across the back of the grey top she was still wearing it quote all yours [ __ ] you
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the back of her head was bloody as were the sheets beneath her steve saw what he recognized as a
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gunshot wound in her scalp sitting on top of her head in her long matted black hair was a tiara
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steve knew without a doubt that the woman was dead he pulled out his cell phone and dialed
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9-1-1 when the operator answered he cried out in a distraught voice there's a body in my son's apartment
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steve recognized the deceased woman as his son's close friend and anthropology tutor julie kibuishi
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he had met julie before and thought she was a lovely young woman noting how well she got on with sam
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steve later asked his son if there was a romantic connection between them sam had dismissed the notion telling his
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father that julie was more like a sister to him but it looked as though some sort of
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sexual activity had taken place in sam's room when police arrived on the scene they
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made the same observation way julie's body was posed turned the aggressive removal of her pants
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indicated that she had been sexually assaulted then brutally executed an autopsy later revealed julie had been
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shot twice in the head the message that had been scrawled on her back or yours [ __ ] you
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seemed pointed as though directed at a particular person investigators suspected a love triangle
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most likely sam had been competing for julie's affections with another individual
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upon searching sam's room they found what appeared to be a sex manual as well as a soldier's handbook
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the latter made sense prior to enrolling at college when he was 26 years old sam hare had served in
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the united states army's 173rd airborne brigade combat team he had been sent to afghanistan and
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spent much of his time there fighting on the border with pakistan in a particularly dangerous region that was
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constantly under fire when he returned to the u.s sam exhibited symptoms of post-traumatic
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stress disorder suffering from regular nightmares where he was trapped in a foxhole while insurgents bore down on
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him eager to move on with his life he enrolled in college so he could obtain a degree
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in addition to the books investigators recovered a clean knife with a wide partially serrated blade
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julie's handbag was found in the kitchen with her driver's license and cell phone
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inside an examination of julie's phone revealed how sam had repeatedly reached out to
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her the previous night in a series of text messages he'd begged her to come over to his place while also
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insisting that she come alone and tell no one investigators noted how sam had reassured julie that his desire to see
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her wasn't sexual writing in one message please no sex sam's cell phone wallet and passport
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were nowhere to be found his car a white pontiac was also missing investigators ran a background a check
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on sam hare to find out who exactly they were dealing with as well as learning that sam was an army
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veteran with extensive combat experience they made another more disturbing discovery
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eight years earlier in 2002 sam hare had been charged with murder at the time sam was 18 years old
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he had been friends with another young man named byron benito who had gang affiliations
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authorities said that after some gang members suspected byron of shooting one of their friends sam hare helped them by
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luring byron to a secluded industrial estate according to police after sam and byron
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arrived there a group of assailants attacked byron stabbing and beating him to death
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for his role in the plot sam hare was charged with murder and spent almost a year in custody before going to trial in
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2004. the prosecution argued that while sam hadn't physically hurt byron he had taken him to the side of his death with
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full knowledge of what would unfold unconvinced that these actions proved sam guilty of murder a jury ultimately
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acquitted him relieved and determined to start a new life sam enlisted in the army and went
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on to become a decorated veteran despite his full exoneration sam's history was notable to the detectives
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investigating him for the murder of julie kibuishi almost a decade later similarities between the two crimes were
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clear byron and julie were close friends of sam and both had met a violent end after
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sam lured them to a predetermined destination at this point locating sam became a
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matter of public safety physically fit and strongly built sam was more than capable of defending
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himself if necessary then there was his military combat experience as well as the likelihood
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that he was armed with a gun investigators had to move quickly they interviewed everyone who knew sam
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including a number of neighbours who lived in the camden martinique apartments due to most of the residents being
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college students around the same age the apartments had a thriving social scene and many of the people who lived there
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were friendly with one another one man who lived a couple of floors below sam said he'd seen him the
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afternoon before julie was murdered sam had helped him move some heavy items then he'd left camden martinique with a
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man sam's neighbor had never seen before the man was white and wore a black baseball cap
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the neighbor's fiancee confirmed this sighting adding that the man didn't live at the apartments and she had never seen
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him before meanwhile samhaire's father steve was struggling with the sudden disappearance
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of his son determined to track him down he began carrying out his own private investigation
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sam had previously provided his father with all of his online banking details and passwords in case of an emergency
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on monday may 24 when sam had been missing for two days steve logged into his son's bank account
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almost right away steve noticed that there had been lots of activity over the past few days sam had
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repeatedly withdrawn funds from an atm in long beach each time he opted to take out 400
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the maximum amount his bank permitted him to withdraw in a day overall these increments had added up to
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almost two thousand dollars steve then drove to long beach in the hopes of catching sam in the act
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he staked out the city's atms but didn't see his son then he drove around the area's streets
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and roads keeping a lookout for sam's white pontiac there was no sign of it suddenly a notification came through on
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steve's phone from sam's bank sam's bank card had just been used to order some pizzas from a long beach
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pizza parlor named eckos steve rushed to the restaurant it sat along a busy six-lane
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thoroughfare with tables and umbrellas set out along the pavement for outdoor dining steve parked in front of echoes
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and alternated between watching its glass door entrance and keeping an eye out for sam's car
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he waited for an hour although other patrons came and went his son never appeared
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the case detectives had also gained access to sam's banking records and were also keeping a watch on account activity
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like steve they had noted the repeated withdrawals being made from long beach there had been four separate withdrawals
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from two different chase bank atms the machines had cameras fitted inside and investigators were able to obtain
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the surveillance footage from both upon examining the footage recorded at the exact times sam's card had been used
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detectives were perplexed standing before the machine was a teenage boy he was white and looked very young
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dressed in a hoodie and a black baseball cap [Music] was this the individual in the black hat
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that sam's neighbors had seen him with on the day of julie's murder the detectives didn't recognize him and
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nor did sam's parents when they were shown a photo investigators contacted ekko's pizza
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parlor where sam's card had been used to make a purchase and asked for the delivery address provided for that
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particular order once they had it a full swat team descended on the property and a
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helicopter was dispatched for an aerial view if sam hare was hiding inside the investigators didn't want to take
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any chances the last thing they needed was a hostage situation on their hands judging from the noises emanating from
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the house a party was in full swing when the occupants were ordered to open up the teenage boy who had been called
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on the atm's camera opened the front door his name was wesley and he was 17 years old
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he lived there with his mother who was a drama teacher [Music] wesley was ordered out of the house
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along with his friends whom he'd invited over to play video games and instructed
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to get down on the ground as he lay on the front lawn officers filed inside to conduct a thorough
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search determined that they would flush out sam hare from wherever he was hiding
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after examining each room it was clear sam hare wasn't in the house but his debit card was
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when confronted with sam's debit card wesley denied having used it or even knowing anything about it
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are you sure about that one of the officers asked this card's tied to a homicide
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wesley's demeanor immediately changed he looked visibly scared as he repeated the words
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a homicide it didn't take long for him to spill what he knew wesley didn't know sam hare
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he had been withdrawing the money on behalf of someone else 26 year old daniel wozniak lived at the
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camden martinique apartments a couple of floors below sam hare's residence he had held a few different jobs here
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and there but his true passion was acting daniel's performances in community theater productions had been positively
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received and he was currently starring in the lead role in a several month long run of the musical nine at an
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alternative theater company in orange county he and sam hare became friendly after
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daniel and his fiancee rachel buffett her fellow aspiring actor had moved into the complex several months earlier in
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february they shared a circle of friends at camden martinique and socialized regularly
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daniel was the downstairs neighbor who had mentioned seeing sam leave with the man in a black baseball cap on the day
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of julie kiba issues murder initially this had appeared to be a helpful clue in the search for sam
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now investigators viewed daniel's story far more critically seventeen-year-old wesley had since
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accused the daniel of supplying him with sam's bank card under the order to drain
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the account was daniel helping sam evade authorities if so was he aware of what exactly his friend
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was running from detectives called daniel wozniack's cell phone seeking an explanation
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he answered that said that he couldn't speak with them that night because he was at his bachelor party
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in two days time on friday may 28 daniel was getting married and he had gone out
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to a japanese restaurant with a few friends to celebrate investigators didn't care
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with sam hare still a threat to the public they needed to speak with daniel right away
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detective jose morales approached the beige single-story building that housed tsunami sushi
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located on the pacific coast highway in huntington beach the restaurant often hosted parties with its teppanyaki grill
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a popular attraction detective morales entered the establishment alone in his plain clothes he wouldn't attract
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much attention the detective walked through the front door and strolled around at the bar area
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scanning the room for daniel wozniack he couldn't see him then towards the back of the
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restaurant in a private banquet room he spotted him daniel was dressed in khaki pants and a
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hawaiian shirt laughing as he drank sake with his friends detective morales radioed for backup and
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more officers soon arrived at the scene they waited until daniel had paid for the meal
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then entered through the restaurant's rear door and filed into the banquet room when daniel looked up and saw them all
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of the blood drained from his face the detectives flashed their badges and padded daniel down before snapping a
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pair of handcuffs around his wrists then he was escorted out of his own bachelor party and into a waiting police
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car once daniel was seated in an interrogation room at costa mesa police station he seemed more relaxed than he'd
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looked at the restaurant before questioning began daniel assured the interviewing
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detectives i'm going to tell you everything i'm sick of covering for sam he said he knew nothing about julie
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kibushi's murder but had been duped into helping supply funds for sam hare's escape
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he also admitted that the man in the black baseball cap had never existed he had invented him to cover up for
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himself daniel explained that sam had called him the previous friday morning hours before
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he later attacked and killed julie kibuishi sam had offered to pay daniel if he helped him out with the scheme
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he was planning to drain his own bank account using a third party and then intended to file a claim that his debit
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card had been stolen his bank would have to refund what had been taken and he'd get double the
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payout the author was tempting daniel and his fiancee rachel had little money the community theatre shows they loved
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performing paid nothing and they both worked odd jobs to get by somehow they'd wound up severely in debt
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and months behind on their rant what sam was suggesting was illegal but daniel desperately wanted some cash
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he agreed to participate and sam said he would stay clear of the atms being used
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to make withdrawals that way no one could say they had seen him there and his face wouldn't be
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captured by the machine's cameras daniel lost his teenage friend wesley whom he'd met through their shared
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interest in theatre to make the withdrawals daniel told wesley he was working for a
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bail bonds agent and that the card belonged to one of the agent's clients who had gone on the run after posting
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bail he wanted wesley's help to drain the client's account and had shown the teenager how to use the card and
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withdraw funds in 400 increments he'd said it was vital that wesley always wear a hat and sunglasses when he
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was at the atm because wesley was underage daniel believed he was less likely to get in
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trouble if he was caught daniel insisted that he had no idea where sam hare was now
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setting the credit fraud story aside the interrogators changed the subject back to julie kibuishi
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did daniel know anything about her murder after initially saying he didn't daniel admitted that he did
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sam had told him all about it on the evening of friday may 21 daniel and his fiancee rachel had
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performed on stage in the community theatre musical they were both in before returning home for a quiet night
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watching tv on the couch the next morning daniel was woken by a steady knocking at his front door
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he opened it and saw sam hare standing outside looking nervous when daniel asked if everything was
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alright sam replied not good we're in trouble sam begged daniel to get him out of
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costa mesa and handed over his laptop for safe keeping daniel told detectives where they could
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find the device in his apartment the two got into sam's white pontiac with daniel behind the wheel
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as they headed southbound down the interstate 405 freeway sam suddenly made an admission
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there's a body in my apartment i shot somebody i was not happy about it it was a fit of rage and honestly
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she had it coming she daniel last sam told him the victim was his good friend julie kibuishi
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he had gotten drunk and high on ecstasy the night before and started scrolling through photos of julie on social media
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becoming upset as he looked at the images he started texting julie asking her to come over
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when she arrived at his apartment he propositioned her and she refused so he shot and killed her
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daniel was shocked he knew julie from their social circle at camden martinique she often joined the gatherings there as
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a friend of sam's and now sam had made him a partial accessory to her murder by asking for
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his help daniel pulled off the highway and began to shout what the [ __ ] what have you gotten me
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into what are you doing sam ordered daniel not to tell anyone and threatened i know where you live
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you rap me out i'm going to [ __ ] kill you and better yet i'm going to start with your wife
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the two struck a deal sam would give daniel the entire contents of one of his bank accounts a
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sum that totaled sixteen thousand dollars if daniel would help him conceal his crime and escape
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daniel adamantly denied that he helped sam in any other way aside from getting him cash and driving him out of town
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when asked where exactly he had taken sam daniel said he had dropped him off at the los altos shopping center in long
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beach sam took off somewhere unknown while daniel drove sam's car to a quiet street
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nearby and abandoned it investigators informed daniel wozniack that they needed one more thing from him
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a dna test just so they could eliminate him as a suspect although daniel was happy to oblige and
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allowed a detective to swab his mouth he suddenly added another new detail to his
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story he had been in sam's apartment on the afternoon of friday may 21 he'd only gone in there briefly to use
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the bathroom and he might have also quickly ducked out to the patio if the detectives found his dna in those
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locations that was the reason why with daniel now admitting to visiting sam's apartment on the day of julie
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kibuwish's murder the detectives began to push harder had he assisted sam in cleaning up the
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crime scene was there a chance he had seen julie's body did sam tell him what he'd done with the
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murder weapon daniel answered no to every question his tone growing louder and increasingly
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belligerent each time having cooperated with investigators every step of the way
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daniel seemed confident that he would be allowed to go home he stood up as did the detectives
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but his latest admission meant he was now being charged with accessory to murder after the fact
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when the detectives informed daniel that he wouldn't be going anywhere shock washed over his face
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suddenly growing panicked he blurted out i will talk to you about anything if it
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gets me to my wedding on friday that's what i will promise he repeated his earlier claims but
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continued to deny having seen julie's body in sam's apartment the detectives kept pushing
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eventually daniel yelled in a dramatic and booming voice i don't know what else you want me to
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say i don't know i don't know he hovered his hand briefly in front of his face as though shaken then anxiously
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began running it through his hair one of the detectives calmly replied tell us the truth
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you're not that good of an actor after shaking his head for several moments daniel finally declared
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yes i saw the god damn body is that what you want to hear he explained that sam hadn't actually
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confessed to him in the car instead he had told daniel about the murder while they were still at camden
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martinique sam had asked him for help cleaning up the crime scene so daniel followed sam
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to his apartment upon entering the bedroom he saw julie's body lying by the bed moving in for a closer look he leaned
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over julie and examined her when asked what did you see daniel replied saw two gunshots in her head
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daniel wozniak was taken to a holding cell although he had hoped police would release him in time to attend his
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wedding there was no way they were allowing an accessory to murder to walk free by now it was thursday may 27 and he'd
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been in custody since late the previous night he was supposed to be getting married
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the following day inside his cell daniel had access to a telephone he placed a call to his fiancee 22 year
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old rachel buffett rachel hadn't had much sleep the night before a detective had visited her at home to
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let her know daniel was being interviewed and asked her to answer some questions as well
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rachel agreed to accompany him to the station and was released within a couple of hours
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realising how serious the situation was she had driven to her parents house to let them know that the wedding wouldn't
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be going ahead then she paid her future in-laws a visit informing them that daniel had been
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arrested when her cell phone rang a little while later she had pulled in at a gas station
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hi baby daniel greeted her in a flat voice when rachel demanded to know what he had
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done daniel explained how he had helped sam cover some stuff up he said he had also helped sam acquire
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some quote hardcore ecstasy which sam had been high on when he murdered julie daniel knew his actions were wrong that
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said they needed the money rachel reprimanded daniel telling him we never need money we need to be good
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people and to just have each other then she added something else rachel mentioned how she had spoken to
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daniel's older brother tim wozniack that morning she bumped into him when she was leaving
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daniel's parents house and told him how daniel had been arrested upon hearing this tim seemed agitated
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and started fiddling with his cell phone he blurted out something about having evidence
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you support case file [Music] almost two weeks earlier on saturday may 15 daniel wozniak had been arrested in
00:48:04
costa mesa for driving while under the influence he was booked at orange county jail
00:48:10
where he placed some phone calls to friends trying to source funds so he could be released on bail
00:48:17
money was an issue for daniel he had two bank accounts both of which were overdrawn and owed a couple of
00:48:25
months rent to his and rachel's landlord now he was only going to be in more trouble with bail required and a
00:48:33
criminal charge to defend one of daniel's friends tried to help him find the cash by phoning other
00:48:41
acquaintances who might be willing to contribute some bail money he got in touch with daniel's neighbor
00:48:48
sam hare and asked if he'd be willing to assist sam refused although he had about 62 000
00:48:57
thanks to his meticulous saving of his combat pay he wasn't that close to daniel and didn't want to get mixed up
00:49:04
in his criminal charges daniel had to spend a night in custody but managed to scrape together enough to
00:49:12
pay his bail and was released the next day that one night behind bars had been enough he subsequently told his friends
00:49:22
he never wanted to go back there again [Music] when he bumped into sam hare at one of
00:49:28
camden martinique's jacuzzis he shared his experience with him complaining about how awful jail had been
00:49:36
sam was incredulous he had spent more than a year in la county men's jail while awaiting trial
00:49:43
for murder when he was 18 years old one night was nothing i know all about being in jail he told
00:49:51
daniel before explaining how he had been charged in relation to a friend's homicide
00:49:58
it was the first that daniel had heard about sam's past before he became a soldier and college student
00:50:06
around the same time sam learned that daniel and rachel were behind on their rent and facing eviction
00:50:14
he offered to help pay what they owed although he didn't want to be responsible for daniel's bail money rent
00:50:22
was a different matter he took daniel to a nearby atm to withdraw some cash as he punched in his pin number and his
00:50:32
account's total balance flashed on the screen daniel watched closely the southern california city of los
00:50:45
alamitos is home to the joint forces training base a military facility that is featured in hollywood films over the
00:50:52
years its proximity to the center of american filmmaking has made a convenient backdrop for military-themed
00:51:00
movies in 1942 the base opened the liberty theatre where shows were staged and films were screened for service men and
00:51:10
women daniel wozniak was well acquainted with the liberty theatre it was close to his family's home in
00:51:19
long beach and he had performed on its stage multiple times he struck the theater owners as a
00:51:25
charismatic and cheerful person who loved to tell jokes and be the center of attention
00:51:32
it was at the liberty where daniel struck up a rapport with the younger cast member wesley and became something
00:51:39
of a mentor to the teenager on the morning of friday may 21 2010 daniel asked his neighbour sam hare to
00:51:49
help him with something he needed a hand moving some items that were stored at the liberty theater
00:51:57
sam was all too happy to assist when his mother called him at 12 25 pm that day he mentioned how he was in the
00:52:06
middle of helping someone out and would call her back soon he never did daniel and sam drove to the theater in
00:52:16
sam's car once there they headed backstage and towards a ladder that led upstairs to a small attic where the
00:52:24
theatre's lights were the two men climbed the ladder and daniel directed sam towards a piece of
00:52:31
furniture stating i need you to help me move this sam began to lift the item as sam knelt with his back to him
00:52:43
daniel pulled out a 38-caliber semi-automatic pistol that he had previously stolen from his parents house
00:52:52
daniel aimed at the gun at sam and pulled the trigger shooting sam in the back of the head
00:52:59
sam fell to the floor shocked and confused looking up at daniel he said i need help something hit me
00:53:09
it felt like an electric shock daniel pulled the trigger again but the pistol jammed
00:53:18
he ejected the stuck round reloaded the weapon and with sam still staring at him
00:53:25
he shot him once more in the temple after killing sam daniel grabbed his victim's belongings including his keys
00:53:37
bank cards and cell phone then he went back home leaving sam's body in the attic of the liberty theatre
00:53:46
that evening he headed to a different theater where he was the lead in a production of the musical nine
00:53:54
his fiancee rachel co-starred alongside him one reviewer had previously described
00:54:01
daniel's performance as the best thing about the show but that night he seemed slightly less
00:54:08
polished than usual sometimes he paused before delivering lines causing other cast and crew
00:54:15
members to worry that he might have forgotten them while backstage daniel used sam's cell
00:54:23
phone to text the julie kibuishi pretending to be sam he wrote can you come over tonight at midnight
00:54:32
alone very upset need to talk seemingly wanting to reassure julie that sam's motivations were pure he twice
00:54:43
clarified that he wasn't asking her over to have sex julie who was replying in between having
00:54:50
a meal with her brother and his fiance seemed to find this suggestion absurd writing
00:54:57
lol sam we are like brother and sis no sex she agreed to come over to sam's apartment at midnight by herself
00:55:10
after the performance concluded daniel headed home and waited sitting on the couch with his fiancee
00:55:18
rachel he watched a film and then some light-hearted television at close to midnight he tucked a blanket
00:55:26
over rachel who was dozing snuck out of their apartment and headed upstairs to sam's he claims he was standing outside
00:55:36
the front door when julie kiba wishy arrived concerned about her seemingly distraught friend
00:55:43
daniel explained that he was worried too sam had just called him upset and said he was going through some stuff
00:55:53
me too said julie daniel told her he had a spare key and suggested they go into sam's apartment
00:56:01
together to check he was alright the two walked inside daniel directed julie to sam's bedroom
00:56:11
asking oh by the way did you see this in sam's bed as julie leaned over to see what daniel
00:56:20
was talking about he pulled out the pistol and shot her in the back of the head just as he had done with sam
00:56:30
after firing twice daniel posed to julie's lifeless body by ripping her jeans and scribbling a crude message on
00:56:38
her back he wanted it to look as though there had been a sexual assault the following morning daniel headed back
00:56:48
to the liberty theatre where sam's body still lay in the attic he cut sam's clothes off with a pair of
00:56:55
scissors then using a saw and hatchet that he had borrowed from his fiancee's brother
00:57:01
daniel removed sam's head one of his hands and one of his forearms which was tattooed
00:57:09
daniel hoped that removing these body parts would prevent the remains from being identified
00:57:16
as he dismembered his former friend daniel began to laugh aloud to himself he couldn't quite believe what he was
00:57:25
doing interviewing detectives were unsurprised by daniel wozniak's chilling confession
00:57:36
they had long suspected his involvement in julie's murder went far beyond what he'd originally claimed
00:57:43
and they weren't the only ones [Music] steve hare sam's father had started to wonder about daniel when he began
00:57:52
looking into his son's disappearance on his own another friend of sam's had given steve
00:57:58
daniel's contact details so he could ask whether he had seen his son steve noticed that daniel's phone number
00:58:06
had a long beach area code the same neighborhood where withdrawals were being made from sam's bank account
00:58:14
when steve checked the numbers of sam's other friends he realized that daniel was the only one with the connection to
00:58:22
long beach daniel had further provoked steve's suspicions during a conversation they
00:58:29
had over the phone when steve asked if daniel knew of anything that had been troubling sam
00:58:36
daniel replied that he'd mentioned having some girl problems as well as some family issues
00:58:43
the latter raised a huge red flag for steve he and his wife raquel were extremely
00:58:50
close to their only child and sam had no family problems to speak of steve shared his suspicions with
00:58:59
investigators who'd also noticed some strange details surrounding julie's murder and sam's disappearance
00:59:08
although the crime scene suggested julie had been raped and her killing was sexually motivated her autopsy revealed
00:59:15
no evidence of a sexual assault moreover there was nothing to suggest that sam had ever harboured romantic
00:59:24
feelings for julie or that the two were anything other than close friends once the withdrawals from sam's bank
00:59:33
account were definitively linked to daniel wozniack it looked as though steve hare's instincts had been correct
00:59:42
throughout their lengthy questioning of daniel in the early stages of their investigation detectives were struck by
00:59:49
the way his story kept changing their growing suspicions were cemented during a pivotal moment in the
00:59:57
interrogation when daniel described seeing julie's murdered body in sam's apartment
01:00:04
in an attempt to coax information from him the detectives had lied telling him that the results of his dna swab were
01:00:12
back already his genetic material was found on julie's body trying to explain this away
01:00:23
daniel detailed how he had leaned over julie while in sam's apartment perhaps his dna had fallen onto her
01:00:33
when asked to describe what he saw when he looked at julie daniel said there were two gunshot wounds in her head
01:00:42
but only one wound was visible steve hare and even the seasoned investigators who had attended the crime
01:00:50
scene all thought that julie was shot once until her autopsy result came through
01:00:58
it was only possible for daniel to know she had been shot twice if he was somehow involved in her murder
01:01:12
daniel had only killed julie to cover up his true target sam his hope was that sam would be blamed
01:01:22
for julie's murder to daniel's thinking sam's previous criminal charge would make him a
01:01:28
plausible suspect in another violent attack hopefully investigators would assume he
01:01:35
raped and killed julie then escaped to live on the run daniel had known his fate was sealed
01:01:44
when his fiancee rachel told him she intended to tell the police about evidence his brother had
01:01:51
after killing julie and sam daniel had given his brother tim a box telling him firmly not to open it
01:02:00
inside was a backpack containing money daniel had stolen from sam's apartment the pistol used to kill both victims
01:02:09
shell casings sam's passport and bloody clothing and the tools daniel had used to cut up his body
01:02:18
supposedly tim had looked inside the box despite daniel's strict instructions and
01:02:24
subsequently called daniel to ask about the items daniel knew that if the police learned
01:02:31
about that evidence then he was doomed when investigators asked to daniel what his motivation for the grizzly double
01:02:41
homicide had been he replied money and insanity then he gave a strange high pitch to
01:02:50
laugh daniel knew that sam had a significant amount of money and he wanted to get his
01:02:58
hands on it he explained that he was a pathological liar who couldn't bear to tell his
01:03:04
fiancee rachel that he was broke and they were about to be evicted he had also wanted to give her the
01:03:12
honeymoon of her dreams rachel's parents were paying for the wedding but daniel wanted to take her on
01:03:20
a cruise afterwards sure enough when investigators checked daniel's computer they found internet
01:03:27
searches for resorts in mexico he had also googled how to hide a body and quick ways to kill people
01:03:41
detectives found sam hare's body in the attic of the liberty theatre as daniel wozniak had described he was
01:03:49
missing his head and portions of both arms but he was identifiable by a large tattoo on his chest that daniel had
01:03:58
apparently missed it depicted a large love heart surrounded by roses with the words mum
01:04:05
and dad inked across the center after daniel dismembered sam hare's body he had placed his head arm and hand in
01:04:15
plastic bags then he stashed those bags in a backpack belonging to sam daniel told investigators that on
01:04:26
saturday may 22 while sam and julie's families were trying to locate them he had driven to the eldorado nature center
01:04:34
a 105 acre park in long beach he dug shallow holes in several locations then placed the plastic bags
01:04:44
containing sam's body parts in separate holes daniel covered each one with loose dirt
01:04:51
and leaves before leaving to get ready for a social event he was attending that night
01:04:58
the musical he was starring in was wrapping up the next day so the cast were all celebrating with a
01:05:05
party search teams headed out to the el dorado nature center on friday may 28th the park was split up into quadrants
01:05:17
with each team covering a different area by the end of the day police had recovered sam's forearm and hand
01:05:26
the following day saturday may 29 would have been sam hare's 27th birthday on what should have been a day of
01:05:36
celebration his father steve found himself in the position of having to pray that his son's head the final piece
01:05:44
of his body would be found and brought home for burial steve's prayer was answered with
01:05:52
searchers locating sam's head before the day was out steve and his wife raquel had never
01:06:00
believed for a moment that their son had killed julie kibuishi from the beginning they had been certain
01:06:08
that he was the victim of a crime not a perpetrator although steve already suspected his son
01:06:16
was dead having his worst fear confirmed was devastating he later told keith elliot greenberg
01:06:24
author of the book killing for you that he was haunted by daniel wozniack's motivation for killing his son and julie
01:06:33
quote i cannot believe that somebody would do something like this to a young man and a
01:06:40
young woman just for a few thousand dollars my boy is gone and i'm thinking what a
01:06:47
waste what a waste he saved all his money so he could buy a house go to college and get married
01:06:56
and this guy takes it all away julie kibuishi's family found themselves reliving the last night of her life over
01:07:06
and over thinking of how things might have been different julie's brother taka wished he'd poured
01:07:14
her more alcohol during dinner so she would have gotten drunk and had to stay over at his place
01:07:22
her mother junko had given julie advice about avoiding traffic while heading out
01:07:27
to long beach not realising that she was in danger of anything else that night [Music]
01:07:37
friday may 28 2010 was supposed to be the day of daniel wozniak's wedding sam hare had been an intended guest with
01:07:48
detectives finding an invitation typed in elegant font amongst the male in his apartment
01:07:55
instead daniel was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for killing sam and julie
01:08:03
he attempted to take his own life shortly after confessing to the crimes and was taken to hospital where he made
01:08:10
a recovery police recovered the evidence that daniel had given to his brother tim for
01:08:16
safe keeping and tim was charged with being an accessory to murder after the fact
01:08:25
despite daniel wozniak's confession he intended to plead not guilty it was expected that he wouldn't face
01:08:33
trial for at least a couple of years while the prosecution put their case together
01:08:38
but the process ended up taking more than five years the prosecution team had decided the
01:08:46
crimes warranted a death sentence which contributed to further delays as the defense sought to have that option
01:08:54
removed from the table the prosecution ultimately prevailed daniel wozniak's trial would proceed as
01:09:03
a death penalty case the trial finally began on december 9 2015. the prosecution informed the jury how
01:09:14
sam hare and julie kibuishi had been brutally killed due to daniel wozniak's desire for financial gain
01:09:23
they relied heavily on video recordings of daniel's confession and also called upon several witnesses
01:09:31
one of these was sam hare's father steve who had to describe to the court how he had gone to his son's apartment
01:09:39
to check on him only to discover julie kibuishi's murdered body inside prosecutor matt murphy said that the
01:09:49
double homicide was as ruthless as a murder gets it's as cold blooded as a murder gets
01:09:56
it's as unnecessary as a murder gets defense had no opening argument and called no witnesses to the stand
01:10:08
within five days the jury had retired to consider their verdict it didn't take long
01:10:16
for two counts of murder in the first degree they found daniel wozniack guilty [Music]
01:10:26
they also had to carefully consider his sentencing death penalty cases were rare in orange
01:10:33
county only being sought by prosecutors in about four percent of eligible cases the defense insisted that their client
01:10:42
wasn't the worst kind of murderer and deserved a chance for redemption but the prosecution argued that if ever
01:10:50
a killer deserved the death penalty daniel wozniak did because he had treated his victims quote
01:10:58
like trash addressing the jury directly matt murphy asked are they sam and julie's parents also spoke in
01:11:11
favour of a death sentence and shared deeply personal memories of their children with the court
01:11:18
after deliberating on the matter for more than an hour the jury came to a unanimous decision
01:11:25
daniel wozniak would be sentenced to death the hares and the kibuishi's were given
01:11:34
an opportunity to address him directly when it came time for junko keeper ishii to speak she asked her daughter's killer
01:11:42
a question that had haunted her ever since she had learned that julie had been used as a prop in daniel wozniak's
01:11:50
scheme quote you took her precious life and then you disgraced her why what did she do to you
01:12:01
how could you do anything like that to my baby reading his victim impact statement
01:12:10
aloud steve hare said [Music] you dan are a coward and a poster boy for the need for an effective death
01:12:19
penalty in california my only regret is that this state won't let me kill this coward
01:12:26
myself although daniel wozniak was the only individual convicted of killing sam hare
01:12:37
and julie kibuishi investigators and the victims families were certain he hadn't
01:12:43
acted entirely alone both daniel's brother tim and his fiancee rachel buffett were charged with
01:12:51
being accessories to murder after the fact but some were convinced that their involvement with the crimes went above
01:12:59
and beyond that like daniel rachel buffett was an aspiring actor who performed in
01:13:06
community theatre productions to earn money she'd played the part of ariel from the little mermaid at the
01:13:14
disneyland theme park in anaheim rachel's small frame and wide blue eyes meant she was perfectly suited for the
01:13:22
role of a disney princess but those who were close to the couple hadn't seen it as a fairy tale romance
01:13:31
they claimed that daniel had changed after meeting rachel he dropped out of college and his
01:13:37
relationship with his family became strained after his parents caught him stealing money
01:13:44
nevertheless it was clear that he was crazy about rachel it seemed to outsiders as though she
01:13:51
called the shots and daniel would do anything to make her happy detectives had taken rachel in for
01:13:59
questioning almost immediately after first arresting daniel they were suspicious of the way she'd
01:14:06
initially repeated his story about seeing sam hare leave the apartment building with a man in a black baseball
01:14:13
cap rachel had said that she didn't recognize the man implying she had seen him with her own eyes
01:14:22
despite daniel now admitting he had made the man up when queried about her early acclaim
01:14:30
rachel amended her story to say that daniel had merely told her about the individual he supposedly saw sam with
01:14:38
and trusting him she repeated his version of events verbatim rachel adamantly denied knowing that she
01:14:47
and daniel were in financial trouble insisting that he kept that information from her
01:14:53
but investigators learned that the couple had already been evicted from another apartment building they lived in
01:14:59
previously and had been notified that they faced eviction from camden martinique
01:15:05
it seemed highly unlikely that rachel hadn't realised that they weren't paying their bills
01:15:11
[Music] a witness named chris also shed more light on the matter he was a jazz singer who met daniel and
01:15:20
rachel through mutual friends just a few weeks before the murders daniel had told chris that he was broke
01:15:27
and asked to borrow three thousand dollars chris agreed to lend him 2000 but said
01:15:34
he'd need to be repaid by friday may 21. when that date rolled around chris headed over to the couple's apartment to
01:15:43
collect his money daniel and rachel were both there as was their neighbour sam hare
01:15:52
after about 10 minutes daniel and sam left together with daniel promising he'd pay chris when he returned
01:16:00
chris waited at the apartment for several hours privately wondering what was taking daniel so long
01:16:08
he chatted with rachel while she sat at the computer and looked for jobs on craigslist
01:16:15
finally daniel reappeared by himself he handed chris a wad of cash that he said was 400
01:16:24
and promised to repay the rest soon chris noticed that rachel was glaring at daniel
01:16:33
eager to escape the apparent tension brewing between the couple chris left quickly after pocketing his money
01:16:42
chris's story placed same hair in the couple's apartment mere hours before his murder and indicated daniel had wasted
01:16:50
no time in helping himself to sam's money it also suggested some hostility between
01:16:57
daniel and rachel rachel had told the police about daniel leaving with sam that afternoon too
01:17:05
but in her version he had only been gone for a brief window of time she had never mentioned chris at all
01:17:16
at around midnight that night daniel claimed his next victim julie kibuishi rachel told police she had been asleep
01:17:26
when daniel snuck out to meet julie but records of her online activity revealed something curious
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about an hour before the second murder rachel had sent a facebook message to none other than julie
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kibuishi the message was a reply to a friendly message julie had sent earlier that day offering congratulations for
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rachel's impending nuptials at around 11 10 pm rachel replied promising that the two of them would
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catch up after her wedding quote we'll hang out when everything settles in the summer sun
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police suspected that the plot against the julie had only been concocted after sam's murder
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daniel had been using sam's phone after killing him and sent a message to julie in the afternoon before his later
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messages begging her to come over in the earlier text he wrote that he was helping his neighbor dan
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perhaps this slip up linking daniel to sam had led to julie becoming the target for daniel's cover-up
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police suspected that rachel had been in on the plan perhaps her facebook message to julie
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was a kind of alibi to profess her ignorance friends and acquaintances of the couple
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had noticed both of them behaving strangely in the immediate aftermath of the two murders
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as detailed in the book killing for you one of their co-stars in the production of nine said rachel seemed sad and
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distant on the night of friday may 21 in one scene that required her to act upset
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rachel actually cried on stage and continued crying afterwards as well she had never wept during that scene
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before at the following night's show rachel's co-star asked her how she was rachel allegedly replied
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my friend is missing i think she's missing i think she's dead i think my friend did it
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this conversation took place almost five hours before julie kibuwish's body was found by steve hare
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when daniel wozniak called rachel from custody less than a week later their entire conversation was recorded
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rachel made it clear throughout the call that she was aware of this when she informed daniel that she was
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notifying a detective that his brother tim was in possession of evidence she made a point of stating
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i need to call him and let him know before they catch me on this recording device because it looks like i'm not
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trying to tell them right away daniel tried to convince her to stay quiet to which rachel retorted
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you realized they're recording this phone conversation anyways you're being an absolute ass to try and lie again
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in a dejected voice daniel said now i'm really dead baby you're already dead rachel replied
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although detectives believed a rachel could be a co-conspirator and not just an accessory they didn't have enough
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evidence to back up their theory they also suspected that tim wozniak knew more than he was letting on
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when sam here's father steve saw a photo of tim in the news he suddenly remembered something that had happened
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while he was trying to find his son steve had gone to the long beach pizza parlor where sam's card had been used
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and waited outside for any sign of sam or his vehicle he never saw either but he did notice an
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agitated looking man inside the restaurant pacing back and forth while on his cell phone
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upon seeing the photo of tim wozniak steve realized he had been that man prosecutors didn't want to proceed with
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tim wozniak or rachel buffett's charges until daniel's trial was done in february 2013 while court proceedings
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were still ongoing rachel accepted an invitation to appear on the television talk show dr phil
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she said that she was doing so to clear her name but some believed she was trying to
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boost her profile with a view to furthering her acting career throughout the interview rachel insisted
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she had known nothing about the crimes until her fiance was arrested when confronted with the fact that she
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had told the same story as daniel about seeing a suspicious individual in a black hat she insisted she was only
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guilty of trusting daniel rachel told host phil mcgraw and the studio audience that daniel had been a
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pathological liar with secrets she had known nothing about discussing the impact of the double
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homicide rachel stated it's absolutely horrific but i think i know i'm not the main
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victim sam and julie were the main victims and then i think even secondary would be
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their families i'm after all of that i realized that steve hare was seated amongst the studio
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audience and given the opportunity to address rachel directly he was horrified by her decision to
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appear on national television and told her as much quote i was aghast when i get a call saying
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you're going on tv my son is dead he was cut up into pieces and you come on here and go on the tv stations
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poor me that offends me rachel told steve she understood his feelings but denied presenting herself
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as a victim pointing out that she hadn't gone to hollywood in an attempt to sell her
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story not yet steve replied after daniel wozniak was convicted prosecutors finally proceeded with
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taking rachel buffett to court on two felony charges of accessory to murder after the fact
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they accused her of lying to and misleading investigators about what daniel had done and what exactly she
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knew rachel contested the charges but in november 2018 a jury found her guilty she was sentenced to two years and eight
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months in orange county jail with credit for time she had already served while awaiting her trial
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the final six months would be served on probation [Music] once again the victims families were given the
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chance to address the court steve hare who was convinced rachel's involvement went above what she was
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charged with stated rachel knew exactly what she was doing she could have saved us eight years and
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six months of grief julie kibuwish's mother junco asked rachel directly all these years
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have you shown remorse no none daniel wozniak's brother tim had also been charged as an accessory after the
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fact for holding on to the murder weapon and other crucial evidence that daniel had given him
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he struck a plea deal with prosecutors pleading guilty in exchange for a sentence of 10 days in jail that had
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already been served and probation he was also required to enroll and participate in an anger management
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program although prosecutors were determined that daniel wozniak received the death
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penalty it is uncertain whether this sentence will ever be carried out in 2006 the state of california placed a
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moratorium on capital punishment after a federal court ruled that a three-drug lethal injection may cause inhumane
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suffering in the years since the matter has been pursued at both state and federal levels
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but the moratorium remains in 2019 california governor gavin newsom signed an executive order granting all
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death penalty inmates a reprieve more than 700 individuals technically remain on death row throughout the state
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despite the indefinite pause on executions in july 2021 news broke that daniel wozniak had been transferred out of
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death row in san quentin state prison and was now serving his sentence at salinas valley a lower security facility
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the transfer was made as part of a pilot program by california's department of corrections and rehabilitation
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[Music] steve hare wasn't officially notified of the relocation he learned of it from a blogger who
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remains in regular contact with daniel speaking to the orange county register steve described the decision as a kick
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in the stomach quote it would have been good for them to at least warn me if i could i would kill
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him myself but that won't happen so i want the harshest punishment possible due to his service in the united states
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army sam hare received a military funeral with full honours and was laid to rest at riverside national cemetery
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steve and raquel here visit their son's gravesite every week was known to be the life of the party
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someone who was always smiling and laughing he was also quick to stand up for what
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he believed was right when friends heard that he had been murdered they knew that whoever had
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attacked him must have done so from behind they wouldn't have stood a chance if they tackled sam front on
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but those who were close to sam also knew his softer side when julie kibuishi told her mother
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about sam she described him as a big teddy bear as well as being an aspiring fashion
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designer julie kibuishi was a talented dancer it was a hobby she had picked up at the
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age of five and she went on to pursue it as a student at orange county school of
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the arts one of her teachers later said that dancing and music were deeply spiritual
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for julie her performances were described with the same adjectives that people used to
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describe her personality fun bright and vivacious julie's remains were taken to japan by
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her grieving family in accordance with the japanese tradition that unmarried children be reunited with their
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ancestors upon passing prior to departing her family asked the police if they could have the tiara she
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was wearing on the night she was killed her brother taka had given it to her hours beforehand after asking her to be
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a bridesmaid at his wedding julie was so excited that she put the tiara on right away and wore it for the
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rest of the night the precious memento was cremated with her body a replica of the tiara is displayed in
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junko kibu-ishi's bedroom alongside an urn that contains some of her daughter's ashes
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