hi, mom. this woman had gone out to get the mail and disappeared in her pyjamas the case was never closed. it was consuming all of us. the individual was wearing a baseball cap, hoodie with the hood pulled up and large mirrored sunglasses. oh, my gosh, did this really happen? i m like, no, dude, i can t do this. there was a scream. a drop of blood came from her nose. it was like a game. he was a part of this game. we re done with the games. it needs to stop. it needed to stop. michigan snow blankets field and woodland with silent beauty, sometimes encasing ugly secrets hidden beneath, never meant to be disturbed until finally they re revealed and all is made clear. i know a lot of people say, you wanted to find her. yeah, i wanted to find her, but then it was going to become so real to me that maybe you don t want to find yeah, yeah. start with the mother of two who vanished as she stepped outside her door to pick up mail. she wasn t there, and
that moment, the kid might have died. he again asked you to help him kill his wife? yes. and what did you say? i said okay, dude, i ll be your alibi. reporter: ricky caved, and, according to the prosecution, doug had a plan ready to go. he took his recruit to a nearby park for a crash course in how to get away with murder. he asked me, like, ricky, if you re trying to kill someone and you don t want any evidence, what do you use? and i told him, well, not a gun because it leaves evidence. and he says, right, not a gun, so what is it? not a knife cause that leaves evidence. and he says, right, not a knife. so what is it? doug said, you choke somebody. reporter: and right there in the park, doug demonstrated on ricky his military chokehold. he gets me in that headlock, two seconds, and he puts me down, and i m, like, out of breath. he says that if i do that to somebody for 10 seconds, you know, they pass out. do it for over 30 seconds, they re no longer a
and i told him, well, not a gun because it leaves evidence. and he says, right, not a gun, so what is it? not a knife cause that leaves evidence. and he says, right, not a knife. so what is it? doug said, you choke somebody. reporter: and right there in the park, doug demonstrated on ricky his military chokehold. he gets me in that headlock, two seconds, and he puts me down, and i m, like, out of breath. he says that if you do that to somebody for 10 seconds, you know, they pass out. do it for over 30 seconds, they re no longer alive. reporter: doug coached ricky to be aware of surveillance cameras. to pull off this double vision ruse, ricky would need to wear sunglasses, a cap and a hoodie pulled up and over. ricky returned to delaware to wait for doug s signal. it came on april 15, 2010. doug drove up from virginia, ricky from delaware, and they met at a gas station in bethesda, md., outside the nation s capital. that s where ricky said doug gave him the things he nee