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>> do you know who shot garrett warren? >> i do not know. >> do you know why he was shot? >> no, i don't know. >> while there was evidence enough to charge claudia, was there enough to convict her? >> you've got mr. quiroz's admission and mr. howl and hernandez on tape but you don't have anything claiming claudia set this in motion. >> we have the motive, the divorce proceedings and the timing of this. the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be false on april 12th, i believe of 2000. the hit occurs about a month and week after that on may 20th of 2000. >> all of that is circumstantial. ...

As he talks to partner in crime. >> i don't got to worry about you and i don't think you have to worry about me. >> yeah. >> the informant, miguel quiro is the pizza parlor owner turned small time drug dealer and the man found with a hit note in his car targeting garrett warren, now he was cooperating with investigators. detectives already knew quiroz wasn't the shooter. he told them the man who actually pulled the trigger was an old friend of his named jorge hernandez, heard here. >> you don't say nothing. i don't say nothing. >> as part of his deal with prosecutors, quiroz wore a body wire a...

Guilty of anything, it's having a career criminal for a brother. >> i believe manny haro was angry about being abused and molested as a child. he was desperate to maintain his street credibility as a drug dealer. when he got caught, he tried to blame it on his sister to try to 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. nobody ever talked to her about whacking someone or murdering someone or shooting someone. >> mesereau was ready with those arguments...

We're in a defining moment again in american history. now back to "dateline." welcome back. i'm craig melvin. police found a hit note and a photo of garrett in the us trunk of miguel's car. but miguel has h a solid alibi. so investigators kept digging and soon they made a discovery. a clue that indicated garrett was still in danger. here again is josh manning wits. >> fade in, los angeles county, california. garrett warren was gunned down, shot four times in his own home but somehow survived.

Welcome back. manny haro told investigators his sister claudia manipulating him into planning the attempted hit on her ex-husband garrett warren then he refused to testify against her. but this hollywood tale had more twists in store, and remember that hit note hidden in the car trunk? it was about to take one more turn in the spotlight. here with the conclusion of "the plot thickens" is jo." >> now she was accused of hiring a hit-man in real life. sheriff's detectives arrested her, but prosecutor chun did not file charges, and claudia was