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>> here is a name, i will bring you pictures of the person who you want to have killed. >> you say that you now feared for your own life? >> yes. >> a hit that could not miss? >> or a surprise to die for? >> they actually noticed a camera inside the car? >> this was a big moment? >> huge moment. everything took off real fast. >> no fairytale ending for this love story. it would end either in murder or prison. >> he says, my guys don't back down from a plan. >> hello, welcome to dateline. when ira bernstein and susan met on the college campus, they could not know the future that they ...

the black ops. at that point, it got a little scary. we are here to do a job, and they are going to kill someone. this is crazy. >> in a marriage, three is a crowd. >> you are seeing another woman? >> right. >> who do you think it was? >> chemistry. and chemistry can be explosive. >> it's your girlfriend, in the bahamas! >> this is now a marriage from hell. >> enter the hitman. >> here is a name, i will bring you pictures of the person who you want to have killed. >> you say that you now feared for your own life? >> yes. >> a hit that could not miss? >> or a surprise to die for? >> t...

Or having his wife killed. >> the cornerstone really of the defense's case is that ira tried to call it off at the end. but that they were threats, if you don't go through with this, harm will come to you. >> that's simply not the case. in fact, after they claimed subject to arrest, they actually hired him to do the other job to beat up the two men. >> and he says nowhere on the tapes or in text messages did ira and kelly say they changed their minds about killing susan. >> even if they did change their mind, they never called the police to tell the police, hey, there is a hitman out there hir...

A luxury car salesman is asked by a beautiful former client to plan a murder.

Coercion and distress. >> reporter: so you're the moron in this story? >> i'm the moron. >> reporter: remember, this is ira's version of what happened. susan and her lawyer never responded to our repeated requests to hear her side. ira says it was during this volatile time that kelly came up with the idea of hiring a hit man. so kelly did this on her own? >> yes. i had a conversation with her about it. it was more fantasy. there was nothing legitimate to it. >> reporter: what's hard is that a respected doctor was capable of even going down this road. >> i don't understand it either. that was n...