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Making it look like a hunting accident. >> i know there are undercover roles that are very complex and difficult to do. >> c.j. highman is the man seen in the surveillance video. at the time, he's a special agent with the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. for otf. >> you don't want to blow one of these things that that person asks me why are you asking me that question. that question sounds like a police officer. >> on this particular day, the woman seated beside him in a k-mart parking lot in charlotte, north carolina, is telling him more than he expects to hear. >> you really thought...

Very sorry for her in a lot of ways because she didn't have a lot of parental guidance. >> in the course of cultivating his source, detective price says he met the young woman's mother, phyllis, then in november 1992, the daughter tells price the mother is making inquiries about hiring a hitman. >> she decided that hey, she didn't want to see her mother murder her stepfather, and she didn't want her mother to go to prison for murder. >> but price launches an investigation, and contacts the atf about helping the police set up a sting. >> our person back at the time in 1992, it was nothing, ther...

While the support team positions itself nearby. >> the first meet was just hey, see what she has to say and see if she's really serious about this or if this thing has been blown out the of proportion. >> initially agents restrict their eavesdropping to audio surveillance. >> c.j. wore an old-style wire. tons of wiring in it, it's got batteries in it. the batteries will die, the reception's poor at times. you may or may not be able to record, you may or may not hear it clearly. >> okay guys, i'm pulling in the mall now. >> i was trying to get those verbal cues over the radio so people that wer...

With solicitation to commit murder. a group of officers are now dispatched to deliver the news to her husband jimmy. >> i was one of the ones that informed the husband. he did not believe us. he didn't want to believe us. he thought that we had set the whole thing up, that we had coerced her into saying all the things that were said. >> if it's an accident, if you throw him into a power line, that's fine. >> jimmy is so incredulous, he bonds out his wife for $30,000. while prosecutors begin examining the evidence in the case. >> you know we're talking about murder here. >> i know we are. i kno...

Up. whether you're talking about hey, can you fix me roof or can you kill my husband, it's just natural. >> we knew that if she did "a," "b," "c," and "d," we were going to make the arrest that day. >> darryl price is part of the joint task force with the atf. monitoring the meeting from other parts of the shopping center. >> we had a pickup truck marked with a camper shell on the back. and there were several of us in the back with an old style vhs camera. we didn't have hollywood technology. it was just old school using what you had to make the best of a tough situation. >> as phyllis crowell...