saying that they had heard from jim and jim was at a motel down in houston. josh mankiewicz: the lawyer put jean in touch with jim and filled her in on his latest plan, a plan that could only succeed if jean agreed to send jim money. his plan was to get across the border and go from there. and so i'd send him yet more money, and allowed him to get out of the country. josh mankiewicz: which wasn't, at that point, a crime since there were no charges against jim. at this point, no. josh mankiewicz: and here's where our story takes another bizarre turn. while jean huden, the wife jim had cheated on for years, was willing to stand by her man and help him escape the mexico, police learned that peggy thomas, jim huden's lover and alleged accomplice, was now willing to give him up. i'm not involved in this. ok. josh mankiewicz: in this interview with detectives, peggy thomas said that in a phone call shortly