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los angeles county, nighttime. nighttime. a police informant wears a wire as he talks to a partner in crime. >> i don't go to worry about you. >> yeah you know, i'm not like that. >> the informant, miguel quiroz, he's the pizza parlor owner turned small time drug dealer. and the middleman with a hit note in his car targeting garrett warren. now, he was cooperating with investigators. detectives already knew quiroz wasn't the shooter. quiroz told them the man was the man who pulled the trigger was a old friend of his name was jorge hernandez. >> as a deal with prosecutors, quiroz wore a body wire and approached jorge hernandez at a

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claudia denied everything. >> do you know who shots garrett warren? >> i don't know. >> do you know why he was shot? >> no, i don't know. >> but while there was evidence enough to charge claudia, was there enough to convict her? >> you have mr. cures is the mission, and then you have mr. hernandez on tape. but nothing to prove that claudia said this in motion? >> we have the motive, the contentious divorce proceeding. we had the time of this. what happens is that the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be falls on april 12th, i believe, of 2000. the hit occurs about a month or a week after that. >> all of that is circumstantial? >> i agree. >> but soon, there was more. prosecutors said the handwriting on the hit note matched claudia haro's. and when prosecutors compared samples to cloudiness land letters to garrett, they would know it is just a typo --

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"the plot thickens". >> faith in, los angeles county, california. was garrett warren was gunned down, shot four times in his own home, but somehow survived. if it is character, really. a hollywood stuntman, martial artist, and former fighter. not only did he survive, he was able to identify a shooter. a man who had been caught with what looked like a hit note in his car. and they tell you his name is miguel quiroz? >> yes. >> did that name mean anything to you? >> not at the time at all. >> it's needed at first like a strong case. but the more law enforcement and prosecutor chun investigated, the less clear became. >> you did a lot of work and was somewhat you did was help prove your defendants alibi? >> sure, so far. >> remember, multiple witnesses put miguel quiroz about 80 miles away from garret's home

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involved? prosecutor hoon chun can to rethink the case. >> the defense attorneys agree that we can talk to mr. quiroz and they let us talk to him. and the detectives and i keep coming back to this hit note, to where it's found. he does not know who garrett warren was. their interaction was very brief at the barbecue. >> detectives kept questioning quiroz. because they knew that whoever wanted garrett dead -- is from after the shooting. meaning that it's not so much a hit to note as a note explaining to someone how to go back and finish the job. >> it is a re-hit if you want to call it that. >> that finish the job note, says chun, started to unravel the mystery. >> that was kind of what's broke the case open. and that was quite frankly the lifeline we had on this case. >> the one unavoidable piece of evidence that finally cracked miguel quiroz.

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he defended michael jackson. the picture of her is that she's eventual woman who would stop at nothing to keep her daughter way from ex-husband. >> never give you that information does not know claudia haro. >> mesereau says that if she's guilty of anything, we it is because she has a criminal for a brother. >> if -- and then when you got caught, he try to blame it on his sister to try and gain freedom for himself. >> not only that, he said, but those hit notes allegedly written by claudia? >> i am convinced these are forgeries. claudia never wrote any hit note to anybody.

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known for successfully defending michael jackson. >> the picture that's drawn of her is sort of this vengeful woman, who would stop at nothing to keep her daughter away from her ex husband. >> whoever give you that information doesn't know claudia haro. >> mesereau insists that if claudia he's guilty of anything, is having a career criminal for a brother. >> i believe manny haro was angry about being abused as a child, and he was desperate to maintain a street credibility, as a drug dealer. and then, when he got caught, he tried to blame it on his sister, to try and gain freedom for himself. >> not only that, he said, but those hit notes, allegedly written by claudia, -- >> i'm convinced these are forgeries. claudia never wrote any hit note to anybody. nobody ever talked about whacking someone or murdering someone or shooting someone. >> mesereau what's ready with those arguments and more. and who knows what a jury might have done?

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>> do you know who shot garrett warren? >> i don't know. >> do you know why he was shot? >> no, i don't know. >> but while there was evidence enough to charge claudia, was there enough to convict her? >> you've got mr. quiroz admission. and you got mr. hernandez on tape. do you have anything proving that claudia haro set this in motion? >> we have the motive, the contentious divorce proceedings. we have the timing of this, because what happens is that the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be false. on april 12th of 2000, the hit occurs about a month and a week after that on may 20th of 2000. >> it's all of that circumstantial? >> i agree. >> but soon, there was more. prosecutors said the handwriting on the hit note matched claudia haro and when prosecutors compared samples of claudia's letters to garrett, with the hit notes, they noticed the misspelling of this

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garrett warren was gunned down, shot four times in his own home, but somehow survived. it fits his character, really. a hollywood stuntman, martial artist, and former fighter. not only did he survive, he was able to identify a shooter. a man who had been caught with what looked like a hit note in his car. and they tell you his name is miguel quiroz? >> yes. >> did that name mean anything to you? >> not at the time at all. >> it's sounded at first like a strong case. but the more law enforcement and prosecutor chun investigated, the less clear became. >> you did a lot of work and was somewhat you did was help prove your defendants alibi? >> sure, so far. >> remember, multiple witnesses put miguel quiroz about 80 miles away from garret's home the night of the shooting. then, like a scene from "columbo", came the latest

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word, agüero. as anna gore hills the location of their homes, on the hit note found in quiroz the's car, and in claudia's letters, the word is misspelled the exact same way. claudia insist she had never given any notes or maps to miguel quiroz. >> did you ever give him anything like paperwork? >> no, not that i can think of, and no. >> so, if we had, say, someone's address within your handwriting? >> i don't know. not from me. i don't know. >> she claimed to know very little about what her brother manny might have been up to. >> why would your brother, who never even met garrett, want him killed? >> i don't know. >> why would you tell us that you are the one that asked him if he'd kill and help arrange it? >> i don't know.

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him. and the detectives and i keep coming back to this hit note, to where it is found. he doesn't know where quiroz it is. because remember, their inaction is very brief at that barbecue. >> detectives kept question quiroz. because they knew that whoever wanted garrett dead -- because here is one more twist, the postmark on the note is from after the shooting. meaning that it's not so much a hit note as a note explaining to someone how to go back and finish the job. is from after the shooting. >> it is a re-hit if you want to call it that. >> that finish the job note, says chun, started to unravel the mystery. >> that was kind of what's broke the case open. and that was quite frankly the lifeline we had on this case. >> the one unavoidable piece of evidence that finally cracked miguel quiroz. >> we go back round and round about this and finally he admits that he was one of the middlemen. >> miguel quiroz admitted that while he wasn't the shooter, he was in on the plot.

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