Amateur actor 'shot dead and beheaded war vet before getting actress fiancee to help scatter limbs in park - then he gunned down victim's female friend'

A pair of California lovers have been named the prime suspects in the gruesome killings of a female college student and an Afghanistan war veteran whose body was dismembered and his head and limbs strewn across a park.



Rachel Buffett and fiance Daniel Wozniak, who are stars on the local community theater circuit, are accused of colluding to plan and carry out the horrific murders of 26-year-old Samuel Eliezer Herr and 23-year-old Juri 'Julie' Kibuishi in May 2010.



Police arrested Wozniak on May 26, 2010 at his bachelor party, two days before he was set to wed Buffett. Earlier this week, more than two years after the killings, Buffett was arrested and charged as an accessory to the murders.



Wozniak, pictured with his fiance Rachel Buffett in a 2010 play a month before he killed two people, said he carried out the murders for money

Charged: Daniel Wozniak (left) was arrested in 2010 as the prime suspect in the murders of two acquaintances but now police have charged his fiancee Rachel Buffett (right) as an accessory

In a cold-blooded plot, Wozniak has been accused of inviting Herr to a theater at the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base on May 21.



He allegedly shot Herr twice in the head and left the body, taking the victim's ATM card, wallet and cell phone.

It is believed that he used Herr's cell phone to text the deceased man's friend and college classmate, Kibuishi, a 23-year-old student at Orange Coast College, to ask her to come to Herr's apartment.



The messages sent indicated that Herr was experiencing 'family problems' and said that he 'just needed a girl's shoulder to cry on,' the victim's brother, Taka Kibuishi, told the media in 2010.

Once she arrived at his apartment, in the Camden Martinique apartment complex in Costa Mesa, investigators say Wozniak allegedly shot her twice in the head and removed some of her clothing, to make it appear that she had been sexually assaulted.

Center of attention: Daniel Wozniak (center, starring in a community theater show in 2010) before his arrest for double homicide

Wozniak also resided at the Camden Martinique apartment complex in Costa Mesa.

Kibuishi's family affirmed that she did know Wozniak but intimated they were only casual acquaintances.



After allegedly killing the woman, investigators say he returned to find Herr's body and cut off his head, left arm, right hand and threw the limbs along the El Dorado Park in Long Beach.



Police believe there was a financial motive to the crime, as Wozniak allegedly enlisted a 17-year-old teen to withdraw $2,000 from Herr's bank account.



Victim: Police say Wozniak shot military veteran 26-year-old Samuel Eliezer Herr in May 2010, dismembered his body and scattered his limbs at a park in Costa Mesa