reporter: at one point, dustin said john gave him $24,000 to carry out the hit, money that he promptly spent on meth or gave away. he had $8,000 blow off his car, he told us, at a church parking lot. reporter: didn t care? i said, did you go back and get it? nah. are you kidding me? no. i ll get more. reporter: as the investigators dug deeper, they learned that nearly a dozen people from east texas knew about the plot to kill nancy. charlie louderman was one of them. so have you heard about the shooting in carrollton? yeah, i heard about it. everybody else heard about it, and do you know who s involved with it? yeah. who s that? billie earl johnson and mr. john. mr. john. so you know mr. john? yeah, i know mr. john. reporter: charlie louderman was one of the few who was not related by blood or marriage to billie earl johnson. billie earl johnson. he s one mad son of a bitch. reporter: charlie, who started out as a bodyguard for billie earl, says billie a
he s providing a lot of information that he should not know. so it s pretty obvious. reporter: you re buying it? oh, yeah, we re buying that he knows a lot about what s going on and that he s involved in this. i don t think this woman deserved what happened. no. she sure didn t. and she deserves a little bit of justice. yep, and she ll get it. but i want my back scratched, too. maybe not from you. i want my back scratched too. reporter: billie told the cops he never intended to follow through with the hit. i m not going to go kill nobody. reporter: instead he was going to play john, take him for as much money as possible. and for more than two years that s just what happened. how many conversations have you had with john regarding this being done? numerous. more than 10? yeah. more than 20? 50, 60. reporter: detectives say it wasn t just billie playing the john game. members of billie s crew were at it as well and the cops already knew one of them.