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Julie Kibuishi was a beautiful, smart, vivacious 23-year-old young woman who is a dancer and an aspiring fashion
designer. And everybody who met her fell in love with her. May 21st, 2010 is a beautiful night in
Southern California. Julie went to have dinner in Long Beach and suddenly disappeared.
Julie's friends were texting her frantically, text after text. Hey Julie, your mom called me. Can you call me? Hey
Julie, is everything okay? By the next day, Julie's mom was desperate. This kind of thing never happened to my
daughter. So we called the police and I said, "I don't care. I don't care where you find
her, but I need to find her." At the same time, there's another family who is looking for their beloved son,
Sam her, who was supposed to come over that weekend and also never showed up. I said, "I'm going to drive down and make
sure Sam's okay cuz he's not answering his phone." I had the key to his apartment. I walked
in. It looked clean. Everything was fine. Then I glanced into the bedroom and that's where I saw a body there.
There's a body in my son's apartment. There's a what? A body? A dead body. A dead body. Are you sure, sir?
I'm sure. And first thought is, what did he do? Within a few minutes, it's not Sam
wouldn't do something like this. Police enter the apartment and they see a young woman laying face down on the
bed with her jeans cut off. Written on her back was a message saying, "All yours. F you."
They very quickly learned that the woman on the bed was Julie. Being a mother, you would do anything to
protect your child. At that point, did you have a prime suspect? Sam, Sam's friends could not believe that
this happened because his relationship with Julie, they were very close. They were like brother and sister. However,
all of the evidence pointed at Sam. Julie was found shot in Sam's apartment. Sam's car is missing. His passport is
missing. We launched a massive manhunt trying to find Sam her. We believed he was armed and dangerous.
We believed he could kill a I know that from the bottom of my heart, from the pit of my stomach. He would not
harm a woman. We started interviewing all of Sam's good friends. And that led us to Daniel
Waznjak. He was like, "Dude, it's not good." It's like, "There's a body in my apartment."
Daniel Waznjak had a fiance named Rachel Buffett. At a certain point, you reach your shock level you can't handle
anymore. We quickly learned that nothing was as it seemed. Even the most demented
Hollywood writers would not have dreamed up an ending like this.

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Brief Summary

Julie Kibuishi's murder leads to a complex investigation involving her friend Sam Her and shocking revelations about their relationships.

Key points

The Disappearance of Julie Kibuishi. Julie Kibuishi, a vibrant young woman, disappears on a beautiful night in Southern California.
A Shocking Discovery. A mother finds a body in her son's apartment, leading to a shocking revelation.
The Evidence Points to Sam. Despite their close relationship, all evidence points to Sam as the prime suspect.

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Episode quotes

There's a body in my son's apartment.

A shocking discovery in Sam's apartment.

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