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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...

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 dont think he ever had any intention or knowledge of how to...

>> were going to richmond to get ten pounds. >> were going to richmond? thats all? >> yeah. >> he had been drinking, so he may have gone farther than what fbi expected him to say. >> yeah. >> nine half pounds. >> oh. 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 the caring person his friends and family know....

Proof the authorities say the air force veteran truly wanted his wife killed. >> i dont know why he didnt consider divorce instead of murder. maybe there was some sort of worry or fantasy involved. maybe theres something deeper inside of him that preferred the violent option. maybe there was a level of antipathy or anger with her that divorce wouldnt satisfy. >> patrick admits he seems emotionless on camera but maintains hes feigning nonchalance because hes scared of the man who fabricated the s...

Could be at the final outcome of his story. >> we believe around the end of 2008, beginning of 2009 they started having some marital strife. mr. shemorry was saying she was not acting as she had before. there were some allegations she had been going through money very quickly. at some point they decide to take a trip down to new orleans. i think that was an attempt to see whether they could make the marriage work. and from what i understand, the trip to new orleans was actually fairly successful...

I believe was cocaine at that time. >> not only does the witness claim to know the best places to purchase the drug, he introduces himself under a cousins alias. >> that was the name he used originally with shemorry and his wife. so there were some issues with identity theft. >> patrick says the witness tells an erroneous tale about the recent deaths of his fiance and two children. >> mr. shemorry and his wife had taken some pity on the witness. and the witness returned to charlottesville with t...

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. 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 realizes hes being recorded. >> say it. >> kill the bitch. >> say kill her. >> kill her. >> dont look at t...

Shes disgraced everything. herself, her family, me, you. >> i didnt know she disgraced me. >> everything she touched, man. she wrecks people. >> even after starla leaves and relocated 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 his manipulations made starla into a clear and present danger. and then projected himself as the solution. i eventually submitted t...

Meet patrick at his new 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 is literally blended into the size of a buttonhole. the lens is smaller even than the buttonholes. thap button is laying on someones stomach who is maybe a larger stomach. so thats going to protrude up. what youre looking for is to get a glimpse of your perpetrator. >> the idea was to have the wit...

I had [ bleep ] already in the trunk ready for her. >> whered you put her remains? >> the lake. tied up. with some chains i bought from the dump yard. >> uh-huh. >> that bitch dropped so easy, man. my stomach dropped. >> when hes told that his wife has been killed by the witness, he doesnt react in a histrionic way. he acts dispassionately. he looks completely satisfied and completely focused that his wife needed to be eliminated. >> how we going to deal with it, man? i killed your wie. >> we di...