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told me his name. said, i don t know you, but i was told you might be the one to do the job for me. the job? kill nancy howard. he wanted it done so it wouldn t come on him. like a carjacking, purse snatching. john was a man of means, he told the detectives, who drove a lexus and communicated with a disposable drop phone. see that number right there? 1764. that s john s contact number if he still got the phone. that s how you called him? he had it memorized so he provided the whole phone number, which was that 1764 number. billy knew more. he could describe nancy s car. she didn t have it long, it was brand-new. it s dark, four doors, like a hatchback. he s providing a lot of information he should not know. so it s pretty obvious. you re buying it. yeah, we re buying that he knows a lot about what s going on and that he s involved in
motorcycles, vehicles for his children, all three of them, a car for his mother, three or four four-wheelers, something for the grandkids. a ski boat. he bought me a riding mower, a four-wheeler, numerous assault weapons. just anything he wanted. reporter: and so for more than two years the murder plot bankrolled by john killed nothing but time. they didn t follow through with it because they wanted more money. reporter: they have been called the hee-haw gang. but they were very valuable to you, all of these characters. it would have been a tough case if we only had one or two of them as witnesses. but when we have this number of people involved, someone either is telling the truth, or someone handed out a script to all these people with all the information. because it was all the same information. reporter: the east texas crowd was canny enough to document their dealings with the mysterious mr. john. they even had a picture of him in his fancy car. wait till you see it.
now which one drove and which one pulled the trigger, i don t know. but i know both of them. reporter: billie told the detectives he thought the murder for hire plot began sometime around 2009. i was laying on the couch and the phone rang. reporter: a stranger was on the line. how he got my information from them, i don t know. reporter: the stranger said his name was john. he said you don t know me, told me his name. said, i don t know you but i was told you might be the one to do a job for me. reporter: the job? kill nancy howard. he wanted it done as an accident so it wouldn t come on him. like a carjacking or a purse snatching. reporter: john was a man of means, he told the detectives, who drove a lexus and communicated with a disposable drop phone. see that number right there? 1764? that s john s contact number if he s still got the phone. that s how you called him? yep. he had it memorized. and so he provided the whole
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