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Witness number one with $1200 to travel to the big easy and literally hunt her down. >> he goes to new orleans with the $1200 that patrick shemorry has given him. and rather than commit the murder that hes been solicited to commit, he goes to starla and he says check this out. patrick wants me to kill you. and he plays for her the actual recorded conversation in which patrick does make the solicitation. >> kill the bitch. >> say it. >> kill her. >> he was no more of a hit man than patrick was. i...

Of richmond. >> we didnt have any -- on scale of murders for hire, this was not one very sophisticated. he did not know this man really well, had no reason to trust him with something so significant. >> but patrick cannot know his miscalculation. as the two listen to music, the witness pulls out a crude audio recorder and turns it on. >> if you want me to kill the bitch, im going to kill the bitch. >> uh-huh. >> can you live with it? >> i can live with it. kill the bitch. >> patrick never realiz...

Where its looking right up at mr. shemorry. >> you admit that you really wanted her gone? >> uh-huh. >> and i asked you that. >> yep. >> the witness asked him straight out. you really wanted me to do this? and i think it corroborated exactly what was recorded on the prior non-law enforcement sponsored audiotape that the witness had made. >> yeah, you got that coldness. thats right. >> a lot of times people -- this is just human nature. when youre in a conversation trying to illicit information f...

One pop. one pop. laid down, it was over. >> green county, virginia. 2009. 28-year-old patrick shemorry is caught on tape listening impassively to an apparent hit man boasting about completing an assignment, the assassination of patricks estranged wife starla knight. friends and relative are baffled over the description of the real estate agent as the architect of a murder for hire scheme. >> mr. shemorry does not if it the profile of a killer. >> whered you put her remains? >> the lake. tied up...

I had the trunk ready for her. >> where did you put her remains? >> the lake. tied her up. >> hes told that his wife has been killed by the witness. he doesnt react. in a histrionic way. he reacts dispassionately. he looks completely satisfied and completely focused that his wife needed to be eliminated. >> i killed your wife. >> you did what you had to do, man. >> no, i did it. >> damn strong. >> the witness does a pretty good job here. the camera doesnt move. but there are long stretches where...

Girlfriends home in nearby green county to discuss the murder plot. and videotape the entire exchange with a hidden camera. >> the technology is unbelievable now. a button camera, it literally blends into the size of a buttonhole. the lens is actually a little smaller than the buttonholes. the button is laying on someones stomach, who is maybe a little bit larger stomach, so naturally the shirt will protrude up. so what youre looking for is to get a glimpse of your perpetrator. >> the idea was t...

Only from xfinity. charlottesville, virginia, 2009. patrick shemorry, a soft-spoken real estate agent makes a startling proposal to a friend. never noticing the audio recorder the man turns on, as they listen to music. >> starla is starla knight, patricks estranged wife, now living with friends in new orleans. patrick provides his associate, a man law enforcement calls witness number one, with $1,200 to travel to the big easy and

>> i dont know how she disgraced me. >> everything she touched, man, she wrecks people. >> even after starla leaves and relocates to new orleans, patrick maintains its the witness who orchestrates the plot. in a letter to msnbc, patrick writes, he spoke of killer women who came to murder their exes. he had through manipulations made starla into a clear and present danger and then projected himself as the solution. i eventually submitted to his way of thinking and agreed to the crime. >> its hard...

>> green county, virginia, 2009. 28-year-old patrick shemorry is caught on tape listening impasseively to an apparent hitman boasting about completing an assignment, the assassination of patricks estranged wife, starla knight. friends and relatives are baffled over the description of the soft-spoken real estate agent as the architect of a murder for hire scheme. >> mr. shemorry does not fit the profile of a killer. >> where did you put her remains? >> in the lake. tied her up. >> mm-hmm. >> as t...

>> in richmond. >> thats all? >> mm-hmm. >> he had been drinking. so he may have gone farther than what fbi expected him to say. >> yeah. yeah. >> 9 1/2 pounds. >> yeah. oh! >> once we had that tape, then it was clear to us that it was time to move, that it was time to indict mr. shemorry. it was time to have him face justice. >> but patrick insists the fbi surveillance video is misleading and hes still a caring person his friends and family know, a sentiment his own mother-in-law will come to e...