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Down on her. >> why is it that you would violently and brutally stabbed her, repeatedly, 178 times? >> because i was manipulated to do it. >> by hope? >> kevin. >> what did you think? >> sabrina was a strong witness. >> i felt she did a good job. >> maybe so. but without anyone to corroborate sabrina's story, prosecutors feared the jury still wouldn't believe it or her. enter the next witness. sabrina's high school front, autumn. >> autumn testified she had firsthand knowledge about the murder plan and kevin's involvement in it. >> there was a phone call that we'd had. she had asked me if i wa...

I didn't know they were even considering splitting up or divorce. >> kevin, she said, asked whether, in a divorce, he would be able to take sabrina with him, as opposed to her staying with lisa. >> i just thought it was a little odd that he wanted to take a 17 year old girl, alone, in a home with just him. >> prosecutors, next, showed jurors cell phone activity. more evidence, they said, that indicated kevin and sabrina were having an affair. >> kevin was texting sabrina way more than his wife? >> substantially more. >> within a two-week period, kevin and sabrina texted and called each other a...

Kevin brought along his attorney. >> he would only add so the question about his wife's work. >> nothing about the murder? >> nothing about the murder. >> he also became suspicious of how kevin began filing claims for police is 800,000 dollar life insurance within hours of lisa being pronounced dead. and then, he started spending the money. >> he was buying cars. he was buying a camper. he was re-modeling his house, inside. >> all with leases insurance money? >> all with leases insurance money. >> all of that was enough for detectives, three months after sabrina accuse kevin -- detective arres...

Thanks >> on the call, kevin never admits to knowing anything about a hitman. but to detective palmer, his calm manner and apparent lack of surprise suggests a prior knowledge of the plot. >> never says what are you talking about? we never had any conversations. if you have any information about the murder of my wife, please go to the police. never says anything like that. >> in fact, one detective palmer called kevin just two days later, kevin made no mention of autumn's call. i claimed to have only a vague recollection of who autumn was, even though he just spoke with her. >> last name doesn...

Hit man with autumn's recorded phone call. >> was he supposed to do? be angry? was he supposed to be defensive? if he ... >> i think what he was supposed to be was something. >> that is kevin's demeanor. you can't pass judgment on that. >> what about autumn's testimony that he spoke directly to kevin about hiring a hitman to kill lisa? he dismissed that testimony as being inconsistent and unreliable. during cross, he asked autumn to read the transcript of her initial interview with police when she was asked if kevin was ever a part of her conversation with sabrina about trying to hire a hitman...