just happened this guy wanted a burglary. i told hem i am not a burglary type person. that s not what i do. reporter: but rams does have an extensive criminal record from assault to manslaughter. did he ever tell you why he wanted you to burglarize sirly s home? he wanted the documents. the sex tapes. reporter: he wanted shirley and melvin s newly signed will and trust documents and several tapes rumored to exist which allegedly show his stepmom performing sexual acts with other men. when he approached me. he had the plan drawn out. he said the $10,000 is in the drawer. the sex tapes over there under the tv. the safe is there. in the safe is the documents with the will and testament. reporter: did you feel look you had a choice? you always have a choice, ma am. reporter: in december of 2002, john rams and two accomplices carry out todd s plan.
town of falmouth, massachusetts, nearly everyone knows the name reine. is there a certain reputation that comes along with the reine name? yes. it s like you don t want to mess with these people. because back in the 1970s if you did you would have to answer to one man. melvin reine. this family had sort of a grip on the town. particularly melvin reine, the patriarch of the family. he just had a hold on this community. like you wouldn t believe. he was a convicted arsonist. he had a saying he would say i smell smoke. and that indicated to you that something was going to burn. reporter: even the cops were under melvin s thumb. one of the fires that he was convicted of was setting a car on fire. that car was in the driveway of the police chief at the type.
an extensive criminal record from assault to manslaughter. did he ever tell you why he wanted you to burglarize shirley s home? he wanted the documents. the sex tapes. reporter: he wanted shirley and melvin s newly signed will and trust documents and several tapes rumored to exist which allegedly show his stepmom performing sexual acts with other men. when he approached me. he had the plan drawn out. he said the $10,000 is in the drawer. the sex tapes over there under the tv. the safe is there. in the safe is the documents with the will and testament. reporter: did you feel look you had a choice? you always have a choice, ma am. reporter: in december of 2002, john rams and two accomplices carry out todd s plan. and break into shirley s home. did the burglary go according to plan? yeah, yeah.
the family business seemingly frozen in time. what was it like working there? we had fun. we really did. it was a lot of fun. shirley was the clerk at the company. i took care of the accounts payable. and accounts receivables. shirley s husband melvin reine started the trash removal company five star enterprises in the 1970s. it was really very much a family business. shirley reine worked in the business. reporter: his sons took part in it? his sons took part in it. reporter: but over the years as the company expanded the lucrative business that once united the reine family quickly became the root of its unraveling. i am told that, the sons did not work their territories,
there were customer complaints. there were lost customers and melvin became frustrated at them because they were not working territories. eventually melvin sold off the territories and he stopped speaking with his sons. so his sons, todd and melvin jr. left the company and severed ties with their dad for good. they went and worked for another company. when they left you could see a difference in him. you almost felt sorry for him. reporter: for the first time the notorious falmouth fox appeared diminished. he had lost ties with his two sons. and was also losing his mind to dimentia. i think he knew something was up with him. he was losing it. he was, doing weird things.