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>> he explained the hit note had been sent directly to him, that he had put it under the spare tire in the trunk of his car and literally he said, he had forgotten about it. >> the reason you end up finding that hit note under the spare tire in the trunk of mr. quiroz's car was that he put it there for safekeeping and then forgotten it? >> this was one of those stranger than fiction type things. nobody would write a script like this, they would have a look that any self-respecting director or producer would have, the look you're having in a hollywood movie and think that's reridiculous but peo...

>> you don't got to worry about me. >> yeah. >> the informant, miguel quiroz is the pizza parlor owner turned small time drug dealer and the man found with his hit note in his car targeting garrett warren. now he was cooperating with investigators. the detectives already knew quiroz wasn't the shooter. he said the man who pulled the trigger was a friend named jorge hernandez heard here. as part of the deal with prosecutors quiroz wore a body wire and approached hernandez at the party. he said he hired hernandez to kill garrett warren. on the tape, hernandez makes clear that he didn't waste any...

Back to the hit note, to where it's found. he doesn't know garrett warren. their interaction was brief at that barbecue. >> detectives kept after quiroz, they knew who ordered the hit wanted garrett dead because here's one more twist, the postmark on the note is in after the shooting, meaning it's not so much a hit note as a note explaining to someone how to go back and finish the job. >> it's a rehit if you want to call it that. >> that finish the job note started to unravel the mystery. that was really kind of what broke the case open. that was quite frankly the lifeline we had on this case....

Admission. >> right. >> and you got mr. haro and mr. hernlds on tape. >> right. >> but you don't have anything proving that claudia set this in motion. >> we have the contentious divorce proceedings. we have the timing of this. what happens is the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be false on april 12th, i believe, of 2000. the hit occurs about a month and a week after that, may 20th of 2000. >> all of that is circumstantial. >> i agree. i agree. >> but there was more. prosecutors said the handwriting on the hit note matched claudia haro's. and when prosecutors compared notes, they no...

It fit his character really. a martial artist and former fighter. not only did he survive, but able to identify his shooter, a man caught with what looked like a hit note in his car. >> they tell you his name is miguel. that name mean anything to you? >> not at the time. >> it sounded at first like a strong case. but the more law enforcement and prosecutor chun ininvestigated, the weaker it seemed to become. >> mostly what you've done is help prove your defendant's alibi? >> sure, so far and eventually it really proved the alibi he didn't do this. >> remember, multitim witnesses put him 80 mil...