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9. Another Sleuth Exclusive. Audrey McVay shares her tales as Daniel Wozniak and Rachel Buffett’s closest friend for two years up until a week before the murders.

Sleuth

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Society & Culture

4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sleuth, you’ll hear from another close inner circle friend of Rachel and Dan’s who we felt could have been an excellent potential State witness for Rachel’s trial.  Audrey McVay was their third wheel for most of the time Rachel and Dan were an item, up until the week before the murders. What was it that she sensed that made her realize it was time to check out?  Audrey McVay sits down EXCLUSIVELY with SLEUTH as she recounts chilling stories of the infamous couple, who Audrey at one time considered her dearest friends.

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0:00.0

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

0:09.0

Rachel did find a sex tape of Dan cheating with his former girlfriend Brittany Budray.

0:16.0

I'm sure that would piss her off.

0:19.0

And that was just a few weeks before the murders. Welcome to Sleuth.

0:24.0

I'm Linda Sawyer. This week we sit down with one of Rachel and Dan's

0:38.8

closest inner circle friends, Audrey McVeigh. Audrey said she was the couple's third wheel for nearly four years before Daniel Wozniac

0:48.0

murdered his neighbor Sam Hare, along with Sam's friend and tutor Julie Kubuishi.

0:55.0

The stories you'll hear from Audrey provide a window into a bizarre alcohol and drug-fueled

1:00.8

existence, a world that made up Dan and Rachel's shocking law-breaking lifestyle.

1:07.6

I want to welcome Audrey McVeigh to Sleuth.

1:11.0

Thank you so much for being here. I want to tell our listeners that Audrey was a long-term friend,

1:18.2

actually probably one of the longest friendships that Rachel had prior to the murders.

1:25.0

I believe that Audrey, correct me if I'm wrong, you met her in the fall of 2006 when you both attended Long Beach Community College, right?

1:34.7

Yes.

1:35.7

And you were in the theater department?

1:36.7

I was doing technical theater, doing makeup and costumes, and she was doing acting.

1:42.6

So we didn't have many classes that coincided together,

1:47.6

but we did work on a show together.

1:50.5

And that's how you initially met. And what I know you had shared with me when we had interviewed a couple of years back that she was sort of awkward socially that people had very differing opinions of her.

2:05.0

So share with us because I know she was homeschooled, right?

2:08.0

Yeah, that was a huge red flag for everybody at theater.

2:12.8

Everybody was always like, oh well, she's weird,

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