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Girlfriend's home in nearby green county to discuss the murder plot. and videotape the entire exchange with a hidden camera. >> the technology is unbelievable now. a button camera, it literally blends into the size of a buttonhole. the lens is actually a little smaller than the buttonholes. the button is laying on someone's stomach, who is maybe a little bit larger stomach, so naturally the shirt will protrude up. so what you're looking for is to get a glimpse of your perpetrator. >> the idea was to have the witness say, okay, i did what you asked me to do. and to confirm that's what was desir...

Only from xfinity. charlottesville, virginia, 2009. patrick shemorry, a soft-spoken real estate agent makes a startling proposal to a friend. never noticing the audio recorder the man turns on, as they listen to music. >> starla is starla knight, patrick's estranged wife, now living with friends in new orleans. patrick provides his associate, a man law enforcement calls witness number one, with $1,200 to travel to the big easy and

>> i don't know how she disgraced me. >> everything she touched, man, she wrecks people. >> even after starla leaves and relocates to new orleans, patrick maintains it's the witness who orchestrates the plot. in a letter to msnbc, patrick writes, he spoke of killer women who came to murder their exes. he had through manipulations made starla into a clear and present danger and then projected himself as the solution. i eventually submitted to his way of thinking and agreed to the crime. >> it's hard to know exactly what happened, who put that idea out there. but from what the tapes show, mr. sh...

>> green county, virginia, 2009. 28-year-old patrick shemorry is caught on tape listening impasseively to an apparent hitman boasting about completing an assignment, the assassination of patrick's estranged wife, starla knight. friends and relatives are baffled over the description of the soft-spoken real estate agent as the architect of a murder for hire scheme. >> mr. shemorry does not fit the profile of a killer. >> where did you put her remains? >> in the lake. tied her up. >> mm-hmm. >> as the man prosecutors call witness number one records him with a hidden camera, patrick reacts with ca...

>> in richmond. >> that's all? >> mm-hmm. >> he had been drinking. so he may have gone farther than what fbi expected him to say. >> yeah. yeah. >> 9 1/2 pounds. >> yeah. oh! >> once we had that tape, then it was clear to us that it was time to move, that it was time to indict mr. shemorry. it was time to have him face justice. >> but patrick insists the fbi surveillance video is misleading and he's still a caring person his friends and family know, a sentiment his own mother-in-law will come to embrace. >> the lord was in control, so why should i be angry. the comeback trail. there is no map....