been murdered. but it addition to steve chappelle waiting in the wings to testify, the da had something else, something extremely rare in a murder trial. a play by play of the crime, courtesy of text messages between morgan and steve as it happened. >> we were like, holy smokes, there it is, it is right there. we >> detectives had discovered the trove of messages during their investigation when they pulled morgan's phone records looking for steve. >> we knew the exact time of death, we knew how it happened, so we were floored. >> the texts are chilling, four hours before the murder, morgan text steve, we ready? she types. steve responds, yes, at the shop. now than a half hour before the murder, morgan asks steve about the pores and snap poll. is he drinking? it, yeah he kind of, we're just waiting for him to bend over, i have a shovel in my head, ha