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>> reporter: bennett confessed that he killed heidi. but he hadn't acted alone, he said. he had an accomplice. and that person was who else, but the state's star witness. >> he and grant lewis, as in the bomb scheme had developed an idea as being contract murderers. >> reporter: grant lewis is the brains of this operation? >> yeah, it was a lack of brains. >> reporter: grant lewis had been sitting in a hotel room preparing to testify. now detectives brought him in and turned the tables on him. >> grant, you're in the middle of this thing. >> i am not in the middle of this thing. >> reporter: a...

His sister says he could be quiet and shy but always wanted to be around heidi. >> they did everything together. i don't think they that they really did much without each other. >> reporter: in 1998, stephen and heidi moved to this rental townhouse in dundalk, maryland. stephen's dad steve sr. says after living together for nearly two-years, the couple was talking about taking the "next step." >> was it your understanding steve, they were going to get hitched? >> yes, in vegas and every time i talked to 'em that's that was their plans. it never changed. he loved her. >> reporter: the timing se...

So lewis placed a coded message online, advertising "discrete housecleaning" services. >> by, "discreet housecleaning," grant lewis apparently meant and hoped that someone out there on the internet would understand that to mean that they were hitmen. >> reporter: bennett says a "client" did respond to the ad and offered $60,000 to kill heidi. >> i know from the client, from the person, you know, emphasized to grant and grant emphasized to myself that it needs to look like an accident. >> reporter: bennett's role was the "muscle" to do the actual "hit." lewis the middle-man communicated with th...

That he had in a bus stop with a female in maryland, in baltimore, right around the time of the murder. >> i got kinda scared because, um, you know i was trying to fight back. and i think i hurt her. i'm not sure. >> reporter: the detective didn't buy it. and thought he'd use bennett's story to his advantage. he presented bennett with several photographs a technique police typically use to help identify criminals. except this time, he was asking a potential killer to identify his victim. could bennett pick out the girl from his supposed fight? heidi's picture was included. >> he knows that he ...

Natural in the field of schemes. boom, i just locked it all together. >> poor heidi. >> sorry, heidi. >> kamala harris, she looked look she had been there before on sunday. that was quite a performance. >> we got our first taste of that and she did definitely fill the stage, but as you point out in your piece, it is not just how she performed in that moment, it is that she's coming into this with something that privately even a lot of democrats will say was lacking in the hillary clinton campaign. i talked to people who were her friends, who were hillary's closest friends and yet she felt like...