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CNN Special Report-20151010-05:26:00

properties to his wife shirley. does anything about the timing surprise you or make you suspicious at all? >> certainly todd reine and brother tried to make the case that the transfer of property to shirley reine happened much too close to when he was institutionalized. their whole argument was he couldn't have been of right mind to sign the property over. >> to make the argument in court and win, they needed shirley and melvin's financial documents to prove it. todd reine believed he knew just the guy who could help. his name is john rams. >> you know i owed todd a favor. just happened this guy wanted a burglary. i told hem i am not a burglary type person. that's not what i do. >> but rams does have an

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CNN Special Report-20151010-05:28:00

he got his thing. boom, boom. done. everything done. >> what exactly did you take from shirley reine's home? >> we took the safe. i saw the sex tapes. i made a judgment call not to grab them. i don't know, it was just icky. there was no cash in -- the $10,000 wasn't there. he got the documents. once todd reine had the documents he was looking for in that safe, a short time later, a lawsuit was filed against shirley reine. >> up next -- >> they put a hit out on her. she was afraid. >> who killed shirley reine? >> he wanted me to shoot shirley. go in her house and shoot her for him.

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CNN Special Report-20151010-05:35:00

they're just trying to scare you. little did i know. >> little did loretta know that according to john rams, a plan to kill shirley was already being hatched. did he tell you that he wanted to kill shirley reine? >> he had a plan and everything. he wanted me to shoot shirley. go in her house and shoot her for him. >> john insists that he never agreed to do it. but that todd was determined to make it happen with or without him. >> he said he wanted it to look like a mob hit. i am just listening to this guy. >> did you warn authorities after talking to todd? >> yeah, absolutely i did. >> two years before shirley was killed, john says he had a secret meeting with state and federal law enforcement to warn them that shirley's life was in grave danger. when it came up that todd reine wants to kill shirley reine, the

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CNN Special Report-20151010-05:37:00

it's hard to say, but it does make you wonder what's going on here. >> we asked the dea who said the threat against shirley isn't in the report because john never discussed it. but john's attorney who was also present at that meeting confirmed to us he most certainly did. >> it could have been avoided. really could have. that life could have been saved. >> by may 9th, 2005, it was too late. >> i tried. i gave them two years in advance and they still didn't do anything. >> after shirley's death, police launched a murder investigation. but instead, wound up solving the burglary case. >> during the murder investigation they came across information that led them to todd reine as the ringleader of the theft of the safe. >> while his brother, melvin

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CNN Special Report-20151010-05:38:00

jr., was never implicated, todd, john rams, and an accomplice were all convicted of the theft and sent to prison in september 2007. which allowed investigators a unique opportunity to build shirley's murder case while their two main suspects were locked up. >> they definitely were trying to get john rams to flip. they went to john rams several times trying to get him to talk. >> and talk he did. between 2005 and 2011, john rams willingly spoke to police at least seven times. >> he said, "i didn't do it but --" todd reine wanted her dead. >> despite his repeated denials, in december 2011, john received the stunning news that he, not todd, was being charged for the murder of shirley reine. >> i did everything.

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CNN Special Report-20151010-05:45:00

>> the question is, did he follow through with it? >> never once did i say, "yeah, i will solidly do this for you." never once did i tell him "yes, i will do this." >> the district attorney's office wasn't buying john's story, and were betting the jury wouldn't either. >> the prosecution's story was pretty clear. that john rams had been hired to do this job and todd reine had hired him to do it. >> but the forensics told a very different story. >> there was no fiber, fingerprint, dna, trace, ballistics, foot impression evidence against john rams, none whatsoever. >> the one fingerprint that was discovered at the scene didn't point to john either. >> john rams was excluded as a possible source of this latent print. >> the strongest evidence against him came from witness testimony by jail house informants, including one former cellmate who testified that john

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CNN Special Report-20151010-05:36:00

first thing out of their mouth was, do you know he is a federal witness? i just looked at them. basically didn't say much more after that, man. >> while cnn has been unable to confirm or deny todd's ties to federal law enforcement, he was at one time an informant for the local police department. >> he was protected by the police. he had the police. if you are not worried about the police, who are you worried about? >> an allegation that police have adamantly denied. but then why does the written report from john's 2003 meeting make no mention of shirley or todd reine anywhere? >> rams insists that he told authorities todd reine wanted her dead. why wasn't it in the report?

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CNN Special Report-20151010-05:46:00

confessed, i killed her with a gun supplied by todd reine. >> all the prosecution had was a collection of informants and people who weren't very credible. >> i thought it was full of misrepresentation and outward deceit and lies actually. >> mr. rams, any comment today? >> i won't let them make up a story. >> two people who never gave their stories -- shirley's two stepsons. >> todd reine and melvin reine jr. were both on the witness list. and the prosecution wanted to question them on the stand, but they both pleaded the 5th. >> shirley's husband melvin sr. never took the stand either, still institutionalized with dementia. he was unable to even attend his wife's trial. but his son todd did.

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CNN Special Report-20151010-05:44:00

the reine family once run by a notorious arsonist later divided over the family fortune. and then, destroyed by the murder of one of their own. the d.a. said this man pulled the trigger. >> they always told me that they believed that rams did it. did he do it? i am not 100% convinced. was he asked to do it? i believe he was. >> by whom? >> buy todd. >> todd reine, shirley's stepson, something john rams said over and over. >> john rams repeatedly told investigators that todd reine wanted shirley dead, and he was willing to pay someone to do it. that he was willing to pay him to do it.

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CNN Special Report-20151010-05:47:00

and john rams' attorney, timothy flaherty, made sure jurors knew it. >> there had to be a question in his mind. they believe todd reine is the person who paid john rams to do this, and yet he is sitting in this courtroom. how is that? >> that was the most compelling argument i made in the trial. john rams, where is todd reine? sitting in the gallery, not at counsel table. why isn't he charged? the man with motive, opportunity, means. why didn't they charge him? >> why didn't they ever charge reine? >> a better question for michael o'keefe. >> cape cod district attorney michael o'keefe declined our request for an interview. >> i believe that if law enforcement had enough information to charge either one of the reines, or both of them, law enforcement would do so. and the reason they weren't

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