protests now back to dateline welcome back to dateline i m andrea canning megan varicose had bee attracted to ex-boyfriend leon jacob because in part of the doctor he saved lives. now police officers were telling her he was trying to hire a hitman to potentially take hers. and there was more she wasn t the only target but the police were putting th wheels in motion with a plan o their own. back now to twisted in texas after some anxious days i pittsburgh, megan varicose got a call from investigators to come back to houston soon after she arrived, they called again with the surprise they said we are outside, w need you to get in the car wit us it s like out of a movie? it is they take a knee to some lot that looks like a junk yar kind of. there is cars with bullet hole in them. just then, another ca
as officers read leon s writes meghan was surprised to see familiar face in the gallery i noticed valerie was sitting in the stands which thought was of valerie mcdaniel, a successful veterinarian into recently divorce from he husband of 19 years, mac meghan met valerie, mac an their daughter when th marriage was falling apart she would come over and hav martinis, she would be over lot. we went to a couple of nightclubs things like that. she seemed like a nice person. how did ian leon act around valerie? like it was anybody else but that was then on this day in court, meghan thought leon and valeri looked like a couple she learned later that valerie even posted lyon s bond with this man, a bail bondsmen name michael who bought, who couple of days later got a unsettling visit from leon he shut the door behind him with that our very. on he says i, want to know one
el sendero problem as we headed to trial, what was gonna be the cornerstone o her case the recordings. there is no way he was gonn be able to get himself out o all of the things he said. what would you say was th weakest part of the case well, an aspect of th recordings as well the defendant is educated, he intelligent, he was cautious i his approach to talking to the undercover officer that was the problem. in all those recorde conversations, leon never said kill meghan. yet, the prosecutors had t prove, that s exactly what h meant. jan jacobs does not sto until he gets what he wants. the trial began on marc 20th, 2018 the prosecution called th bail bondsmen, who told th jury he had no doubt, leon wanted to hire a hitman to kil meghan i felt like i was talking t the devil himself. the state then called the supposed him an termed informant paths. he testified that he too kne
right about lyon he wanted to get rid of meghan meghan wasn t to appear i court, whatever it means tha to require that not to happe it was fine with leon, up to killing her. said leon gave him $9,980 i cash in a couple of fanc watches to do the job. but tazz said he had n intention of doing it historian was he was playing lyon he wasn t ever going to do the hit but tazz told the polic he had no doubt that leon stil wanted it done tazz also said he was willin to work with them to catch lyon so police told tazz to recor phone lyon they recorded the. call it as i did pretty good i m gonna set up a meeting tomorro so we can finish this okay? okay. tazz told leon he was bringing a partner i m going to brin with me another guy so we ca
of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger. the headline was just so sensational, the river oak couples take out hits on their access murder for hire plot that sent shockwaves through them in the days following the arrests, revelations about leon s past, flooded in with every newscast, including nb affiliate kprc channel to investigator begin up new details court documents showed leon wasn t exactly who he appeared to be. he had been kicked out o residency programs, convicte of cyber stalking and criminal trespassing, and there was another woman from leon s past who accused him of abuse his ex wife. leon was held without bail, an