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Church social, talk of a family even preceded the engagement ring. >> he used to scare the girls away by saying he wanted 12 children. and i said "well, i always thought i wanted to have 12 children. he says, "oh my god." >> reporter: they didnt have 12 but this devout roman catholic couple did raise their five in a baltimore, maryland suburb. heidi the only girl in a sea of brothers. >> when i hear that, i think "poor heidi." >> yep, yep. >> reporter: growing up with all those boys. >> she wasn...

I recognize him as the boyfriend. >> reporter: bennett picked out stephen cooke. heidis boyfriend was arrested for first degree murder. >> deep in our hearts, we all had a feeling that he had something to do with it. >> reporter: stephens trial began in june 2015. he pleaded not guilty. glennon and breault had the task of convincing a jury that stephen was capable of orchestrating a cold murder-for-hire. their case would rely heavily on the word of one man the killer himself, alexander bennett. ...

And also sadness because we still dont have heidi. >> reporter: grant lewis the denver "middle man" has already been sentenced to "life"in prison. alexander bennett was sentenced to 30 years as part of a plea agreement in which he testified against lewis and stephen cooke who was also sentenced to life in prison without parole on september 2015. and remember the butcher terry gilliam? police have totally cleared him of any involvement. and in fact offered him an apology. >> its not everything, b...

Hired them over to the fbi. did you believe that story? >> not in the least. >> reporter: now do you read grant lewis his rights? >> yes. and the cuffs went on. >> reporter: but there was still one major detail left -- who hired them to kill heidi? >> what really happened the day heidi died? detectives are about to get a first-person account from the killers. coming up -- >> i was making sure if she say alive. i didnt know. thats when i had the knife. >> when "indiscretion" continues. knife. >> ...

Locks, then posing as that neighborhood watch volunteer who so scared heidi. >> i do remember her answering the door. >> reporter: did you go to the door to talk to her more than once? >> it was just that one time. >> reporter: just the one time? on april 20th, bennett says he heard through lewis that the plan was a "go." after getting into heidis house he hid behind the front door. >> now my plan was to just try to get her, and like, still make it look like an accident like, maybe snap her neck...

>> reporter: bennett confessed that he killed heidi. but he hadnt acted alone, he said. he had an accomplice. and that person was who else, but the states star witness. >> he and grant lewis, as in the bomb scheme had developed an idea as being contract murderers. >> reporter: grant lewis is the brains of this operation? >> yeah, it was a lack of brains. >> reporter: grant lewis had been sitting in a hotel room preparing to testify. now detectives brought him in and turned the tables on him. >> ...

His sister says he could be quiet and shy but always wanted to be around heidi. >> they did everything together. i dont think they that they really did much without each other. >> reporter: in 1998, stephen and heidi moved to this rental townhouse in dundalk, maryland. stephens dad steve sr. says after living together for nearly two-years, the couple was talking about taking the "next step." >> was it your understanding steve, they were going to get hitched? >> yes, in vegas and every time i tal...

So lewis placed a coded message online, advertising "discrete housecleaning" services. >> by, "discreet housecleaning," grant lewis apparently meant and hoped that someone out there on the internet would understand that to mean that they were hitmen. >> reporter: bennett says a "client" did respond to the ad and offered $60,000 to kill heidi. >> i know from the client, from the person, you know, emphasized to grant and grant emphasized to myself that it needs to look like an accident. >> reporte...

That he had in a bus stop with a female in maryland, in baltimore, right around the time of the murder. >> i got kinda scared because, um, you know i was trying to fight back. and i think i hurt her. im not sure. >> reporter: the detective didnt buy it. and thought hed use bennetts story to his advantage. he presented bennett with several photographs a technique police typically use to help identify criminals. except this time, he was asking a potential killer to identify his victim. could benne...

Natural in the field of schemes. boom, i just locked it all together. >> poor heidi. >> sorry, heidi. >> kamala harris, she looked look she had been there before on sunday. that was quite a performance. >> we got our first taste of that and she did definitely fill the stage, but as you point out in your piece, it is not just how she performed in that moment, it is that shes coming into this with something that privately even a lot of democrats will say was lacking in the hillary clinton campaign...