we saw andrea s phone hea headed out of the washington area and head up i-95. exactly the way you would drive you are heading fo peggy s house. exactly along the way, the trac foam was activated, and it won 17 a emmitt painted a cell tower right near peggy s house what was going on? was this murder for hire did andrea benson drive up t new york, call peggy on th track phone, somehow get int her house and then murder? this is nda moran didn t think so peggy would never have let a stranger like andrea benso into her house that had to be a friendly voice on the phone yes detectives thought that voice might have belonged to diana. but they had nothing to put he on the scene in peggy s house. and this one, is suzanne of the block? dana is now the highe
areas looked more closely at diana s calling pattern, something seemed off when she was in d.c. he activity was just all over the place. kind of the frenetic feel, there was definitely something going on now, areas looked at wh diana was calling. putting names and faces to the numbers on her phone she noticed diana suddenly seemed to have a lot new friends in washington d.c. a lot of people just popped up in diana s life for a ver brief moment areas close them frequent users. people diana was calling repeatedly what was also interesting to m about these frequent users was that they just had suc different lives. dan it was a suburban mom and some of these people, well a lot of them had crimina histories. living in d.c. remember, dana had been in d.c for a wedding. maybe these people were, you
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nadeau s murder had been looking at her daughter suzanne. but now they were also looking at peggy s daughter-in-law diana. dana and peggy son jim ha been married for 17 years. and while he may not have been that close to his mother, dian was always on the phone. my sister in law used t call every morning my mother would be on the phon with me and say, i gotta go, diana s calling i gotta go then it was a stay at hom mom with two kids. picky doted on her grandchildren and would fl them up to new york to spend summers and holidays detectives had already confirmed that diana s cel phone had been in washington d.c. at the time of the murder but when phone analyst robin
mom had been sending money to diana regularly to pay for home repairs and expenses for the kids, but she says diana wanted more. she wanted to live my mother s life, do all the things that she couldn t afford to do. reporter: and to do that all she had to do was enlist the help of a few friends and commit a murder. uh-huh. yeah. reporter: detectives didn t think jim knew anything about his wife s deadly plan for his mother. and what exactly was her plan? diana had stopped talking and asked for a laywer. but her friend andrea benson, did talk and told d.a. richard moran the whole sordid tale. andrea said she had never met diana before and had been told by a relative to pick diana up at the airport and, as they were driving diana nadell said to her, i m not really here to go to a wedding. i m really here to kill my mother-in-law. reporter: she says this to a person she s never met before? yes. reporter: and andrea benson