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Sleuth

1. The Murder Case of Daniel Wozniak : A Real Life Phantom of The Opera

Sleuth

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In the premiere episode of Sleuth, investigative reporter and host Linda Sawyer takes us through the details of Southern California theatre actor Daniel Wozniak's double murder case. This real life Phantom of The Opera says he murdered and dismembered his friends for money. But did Daniel kill alone? Was his Disney Princess fiancee at the time, Rachel Buffett, the true mastermind in these killings of victims Sam Herr and Julie Kibuishi? Will Rachel walk free from any culpability she had in the crimes? Follow Sleuth and learn the whole truth of what happened with all it's twists and turns in this gruesome story.

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0:00.0

Please be advised this story contains adult content and graphic language.

0:05.0

This call is being recorded and made be monitored.

0:08.0

Baby, are you sitting down?

0:11.0

Yeah.

0:12.0

Please don't think any less than me after I tell you this because this is not a

0:16.8

good story, okay? But you need to know it. I called him and said let's go down to the theater on the base and I had my dad's

0:30.3

done fully loaded.

0:35.0

And when I took him up into the attic,

0:38.6

I shot him two times in the back of the head.

0:41.1

It's a horrifying story that drew national media attention and it grabbed me unlike any other

0:47.1

murder case I'd covered as an investigative reporter.

0:51.1

It all started in the spring of 2010.

0:53.0

Buffett and Wozniac both community theater actors were starring in the play, Nine.

0:59.0

But police say on the same day the couple performed in the play.

1:03.0

Wozniac lured his neighbor 26 year old college student Sam Hare,

1:07.0

who'd recently returned from a tour in Afghanistan,

1:10.0

into the theater and shot him.

1:12.0

Wozniac allegedly then dismembered the body,

1:15.2

the motive for the killing,

1:16.8

reportedly to steal Herr's savings account.

1:19.8

The night of the murders Herrairs father went to his apartment.

1:23.4

He found the body of 23-year-old Julie Caboeeshi, a friend and classmate of Hairs.

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