she said yeah, if that s how you say it. i called up a friend in the d.a. s office. i m like i ve got a problem. any time someone comes to us with something like this, we take a step back. we went to the carl s place diner. we have to start trying to confirm what joe labella told us. we did get video because the diner has video of everyone coming out. he s a former police officer, so he came to us and said not a problem. i ll wear the wire and go in and talk to her. and we said no. that s not how we want this to work. instead, the district attorney s office instructs labella to phone susan and say he s passing her off to a hit man. with 20 years experience. i felt he was the right choice because i don t think a susan williams would speak as readily to someone who looked like, you know, a drug addict from the street. she wanted somebody who had a little more class.
i m like, you mean like you want a whack? and she kind of nodded the head. she said yeah, if that s how you say it. i called up a friend in the d.a. s office. i m like i ve got a problem. any time someone comes to us with something like this, we take a step back. we went to the carl s place diner. we have to start trying to confirm what joe labella told us. we did get video because the diner has video of everyone coming out. he s a former police officer, so he came to us and said not a problem. i ll wear the wire and go in and talk to her. and we said no. that s not how we want this to work. instead, the district attorney s office instructs labella to phone susan and say he s passing her off to a hit man. an actual nassau county detective with 20 years experience. i felt he was the right choice because i don t think a susan williams would speak as readily to someone who looked like, you know, a drug addict from the street.
you re looking at security cam video of joe labella, a former detective turned private investigator and susan williams, a mother of four from the tony community of garden city, new york. at a diner near her home. it s here while her neighbors order cheese burgers and platters that susan asks labella to kill her estranged husband peter. this wasn t something i was prepared for. after contacting the nassau county district attorney s office, labella introduces susan to an undercover detective posing as a hit man. hi, susan. nice to meet you. i said to the detective if she feels like she can trust you, then she ll open up and talk to you. if she doesn t, then she might get out of the car and walk away. on march 3rd, 2010, in eisenhower park in the town of east meadow, the camera rolls as detectives monitor the exchange from a number of surveillance
the things that she did. i got this mom, and he ll never know. it s great. it shows such a level of clear dysfunction. alexis is never charged with any crime. this call may be recorded or monitored. i have a prepaid call from susan. an inmate at nassau county jail. susan should know authorities are listening, but it apparently makes no difference, and the graying weathered version of susan williams who faces jurors later that year seems overwhelmed by the preponderance of tape. i want it as simple as possible. if i could do it myself, i would. the tape was the center of the trial. we would show the clip where she said if you re taping me, you know, i m screwed. and that showed that she knew what she was doing was wrong. susan s defense counters that joe labella, the private
it was so disturbing to hear a young girl be proud of all of the things that she did. i got this mom, and he ll never know. it s great. it shows such a level of clear dysfunction. alexis is never charged with any crime. this call may be recorded or monitored. i have a prepaid call from susan. an inmate at nassau county jail. susan should know authorities are listening, but it apparently makes no difference, and the graying weathered version of susan williams who faces jurors later that year seems overwhelmed by the preponderance of tape. i want it as simple as possible. if i could do it myself, i would. the tape was the center of the trial. we would show the clip where she said if you re taping me, you know, i m screwed. and that showed that she knew what she was doing was wrong. susan s defense counters that joe labella, the private