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Witness number one with $1200 to travel to the big easy and literally hunt her down. >> he goes to new orleans with the $1200 that patrick shemorry has given him. and rather than commit the murder that he's been solicited to commit, he goes to starla and he says check this out. patrick wants me to kill you. and he plays for her the actual recorded conversation in which patrick does make the solicitation. >> kill the bitch. >> say it. >> kill her. >> he was no more of a hit man than patrick was. i don't think he ever had any intention or knowledge of how to carry this out. >> shortly thereafter...

Of richmond. >> we didn't have any -- on scale of murders for hire, this was not one very sophisticated. he did not know this man really well, had no reason to trust him with something so significant. >> but patrick cannot know his miscalculation. as the two listen to music, the witness pulls out a crude audio recorder and turns it on. >> if you want me to kill the bitch, i'm going to kill the bitch. >> uh-huh. >> can you live with it? >> i can live with it. kill the bitch. >> patrick never realizes he's being recorded. >> say it. >> kill the bitch. >> say kill her. >> kill her. >> don't look ...

Where it's looking right up at mr. shemorry. >> you admit that you really wanted her gone? >> uh-huh. >> and i asked you that. >> yep. >> the witness asked him straight out. you really wanted me to do this? and i think it corroborated exactly what was recorded on the prior non-law enforcement sponsored audiotape that the witness had made. >> yeah, you got that coldness. that's right. >> a lot of times people -- this is just human nature. when you're in a conversation trying to illicit information from someone, you have a tendency to talk for them or finish their sentences. that is ineffective ...

One pop. one pop. laid down, it was over. >> green county, virginia. 2009. 28-year-old patrick shemorry is caught on tape listening impassively to an apparent hit man boasting about completing an assignment, the assassination of patrick's estranged wife starla knight. friends and relative are baffled over the description of the real estate agent as the architect of a murder for hire scheme. >> mr. shemorry does not if it the profile of a killer. >> where'd you put her remains? >> the lake. tied up with some chains i bought from the dump yard. >> uh-huh. >> that bitch dropped so easy, man. my s...

I had the trunk ready for her. >> where did you put her remains? >> the lake. tied her up. >> he's told that his wife has been killed by the witness. he doesn't react. in a histrionic way. he reacts dispassionately. he looks completely satisfied and completely focused that his wife needed to be eliminated. >> i killed your wife. >> you did what you had to do, man. >> no, i did it. >> damn strong. >> the witness does a pretty good job here. the camera doesn't move. but there are long stretches where it's looking right up at mr. shemorry. >> you really wanted her gone. >> yeah.