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It's callers being recorded and may be monitored. They are
you sitting down? Yeah? You don't think any left for
me after I tell you this, because he's not a
good story. But you need to know him. I called
them and he let go down to the theater on
the Bay and I had my dad done well. He
loaded it and when I took him up into the attic,

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I shot him two times in the back of the head.
Welcome to sleuth. I'm Linda Sawyer. I've been covering murder
trials for most of my career, but nothing has grabbed
me like the case of double murderer Daniel Wozniak. It
was a beautiful sunny southern California Friday in May when

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Daniel Wozniak decides, in order to finance his honeymoon, he's
gonna go ahead and shoot his friends and dismember them
for their Money's going on, sir, there's a what a
dead body? Are you sure, sir? Does your son know

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who it is? Okay, we're downing people, sir. I've got
someone on the way. Okay, I'm just going to get
information from you. Are right? When I first heard about
this case, it was about this musical theater kid. He
was a local talent, and most of the community productions
cast him as the lead, so he had this following

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and ultimately a lot of people thought they knew him.
He's just this happy, go lucky, goofy, friendly guy who
you know, didn't have his act together, you know. I
literally I just saw him as this, this sweet kid
who you know, trying to make something, doing his best.
And so when I learned about him for the first time,
I said, how could this be that a musical theater

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geek could in fact commit these heinous crimes that you're
reading about, and that these theater owners were telling me
about it just, oh my gosh. One of my daughters
could been opposite Daniel Wazniak and could have been kissing
him in a performance, in a role, and that just
horrified me. I mean, I always felt that it was
a safe haven for my children, and so it really

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struck me on a personal cord. And that is why
kick in the reporter in me, and I'm like, there
are just so many questions I have that need answers,
and so this odyssey that I've been on for two
years has really been all about not only answering the
questions from me on a personal level, but helping these
victims families, helping them understand what really happened to their

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loved ones. That hoping that the rest of the people
involved are ultimately found guilty of the crimes that they
committed as well, because it wasn't just Daniel Wisniac, It
just wasn't be sure to follow Sleuth launching this summer
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