daniel wozniak
Actor is held in the slaying of a Costa Mesa man, 26, and his tutor
Daniel Wozniak is accused of killing and dismembering Samuel Herr, then luring Juri Kibuishi to the victim’s apartment, murdering her and making it look as if she had been raped.Alarmed that he hadn’t been answering his calls over the weekend, Steve Herr drove to his son’s Costa Mesa apartment last Saturday night and opened the door, calling his name. In the bedroom he found the body of Juri Kibuishi, a 23-year-old Irvine woman he said had been tutoring his son in anthropology.
She had been shot in the head, and the circumstances in which the body was found — partly clothed and hanging off the bed — suggested that she had been raped.Police quickly turned their attention to the son, a 26-year-old Army veteran who served in Afghanistan and was attending Orange Coast College. Not only was Samuel E. Herr’s apartment a crime scene, but he was nowhere to be found, and police uncovered text exchanges between his cellphone and Kibuishi’s that showed she had gone to his apartment in response to one of the messages.
The elder Herr said he knew his son was no killer or rapist. “I said, ‘This is not Sam, this is not my son.’ ”
He was right. On Friday police announced that a community theater actor had killed Herr, dismembered his body and then killed Kibuishi, staging the scene as a sexual assault. They said the actor was the one who had invited Kibuishi to the apartment, using Herr’s cellphone. sorce by latimes.com/
