that i could hear the defendant in the background, talking. autumn then testified she and sabrina discussed the idea of paying a hit man by delivering drugs for him. that is when she said sabrina handed the phone to kevin. what did he ask you at that time? do you need me to take you to go drive drugs? what was that a reference to? the hit. autumn said she ultimately backed out of the plan altogether. finally, i said, sorry. i don t want anything to do with it. autumn was willing to leader help detective palmer with his investigation. after hearing autumn story, palmer asked on to call kevin and talk about the hitman. thanking kevin might implicate himself. prosecutors played that recorded phone call in court. the only thing i m worried about is that whole hitman thing. i honestly don t know. you talked a big game about a lot of.
thanks on the call, kevin never admits to knowing anything about a hitman. but to detective palmer, his calm manner and apparent lack of surprise suggests a prior knowledge of the plot. never says what are you talking about? we never had any conversations. if you have any information about the murder of my wife, please go to the police. never says anything like that. in fact, one detective palmer called kevin just two days later, kevin made no mention of autumn s call. i claimed to have only a vague recollection of who autumn was, even though he just spoke with her. last name doesn t ring a bell, but i think she had a friend named on him at school. as the prosecutor saw, kevin was trying to keep police from finding the one person, other than sabrina, who could link him to lisa s murder. clearly a lie. prosecutors were now competent jurors had all the