OC suspect mixed online search for murder tips with honeymoon spots, FBI agent …

A Costa Mesa man accused of murdering two college students and dismembering one of them in an effort to hide the body searched online for “quick ways to kill people” in the days before the slayings, an FBI agent testified in Orange County Superior Court last week.

In the second day of the trial for Daniel Patrick Wozniak, Special Agent Joseph Nieblas read from a list of Google searches that investigators said they discovered on Wozniak’s computer. The searches were made before and shortly after the killings, Nieblas testified.

The list included phrases such as “making sure a body is not found,” “head gunshot wound” and “how far away to hear a gunshot,” Nieblas said.

“There was a Google search for ‘fake thumb print,'” he said. “There was another ‘fake thumb print’ and then one for ‘how to make a fake thumb print.'”

Prosecutors said Wozniak, a 31-year-old community theater actor, shot his neighbor Sam Herr, a 26-year-old Army veteran, twice in the head in May 2010.

According to authorities, Wozniak dismembered Herr’s body and dumped some of it in a Long Beach park.

jeremiah.dobruck@latimes.com

Dobruck writes for Times Community News.