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Southwest Missouri woman charged in plan to kill ex-mother-in-law Copyright Getty Images and last updated 2021-03-05 17:48:45-05 CAMDENTON, Mo. — A southwest Missouri real estate agent was charged Friday with conspiring to have her former mother-in-law killed. Leigh Ann Bauman, 43, was arrested Thursday afternoon and was being held in the Camden County Jail without bond. Bauman agreed to pay people in St. Louis $1,500 to make her ex-mother-in-law's death look like an accident, the Camden County prosecutor's office said in a news release. Bauman was upset that the woman was interfering wi...

>> reporter: motive, said the prosecutors, for leon to have mack killed. >> mack and maybe even the courts may get involved, are going to make valerie choose between her daughter and the defendant, she's going to choose her daughter. >> reporter: mack recounted the emotional moment when he learned about the murder plot. >> that if they would have been successful, natalie would've not had any parents. >> reporter: then it was meghan's turn. no gag or zip ties this time. she told the jury she had no doubt leon wanted her dead. >> were you scared? >> very scared. >> how did that affect how you fe...

Killed. >> i'm sorry to tell you, ma'am, he's been killed. he's been killed, ma'am. >> no, dear god, no. >> if you look at that video, she begins to react before she's even told the whole story. according to that sergeant who was actually making contact with her, he didn't see any tears. >> and when they brought her to the police station, investigators were curious to see how far dalia would push her scenario blaming the murder on one of her husband's former enemies. the detectives were carefully watching her interview on a tv monitor in a nearby room. >> people weren't happy that ep was getti...

And she's informed of her husband's death, that he's been killed. >> i'm sorry to tell you, ma'am. he's been killed. he's been killed, ma'am. >> oh, no! no. dear god, no. >> if you look at that video, she begins to react before she's even told the whole story. according to that sergeant who was actually making contact with her, he didn't see any tears. >> reporter: and when they brought her to the police station, investigators were curious to see how far dalia would push her scenario blaming the murder on one of her husband's former enemies. the detectives were carefully watching her interview...

Welcome back to "date line extra." i'm craig melvin. nick harvey had already been arrested and police were circling their wagons around two additional men they believed were involved in the fatal shooting of lynn shockner. nick admitted to killing lynn but investigators thought her husband, fred, and a man known as el cubano had plot ted the attack. detectives didn't have the evidence they needed to prove it, but they were about to set their trap. once again, here is keith morrison. >> reporter: police suspected that fred shockner was the mastermind behind the murder plot of his estranged wife...