more than likely by tomorrow she ll more than likely be dead, and that s it. i d rather not. i understand that you prefer not, but i can t give you 100% guarantee. leon showed the undercover officer a pile of cash wrapped in a dish towel payment for homicidal services rendered. $1,800 in cash with the promise to pay me the remained of the $10,000 at a later time. what does that say to you in that moment? like, this guy s, obviously, serious. that s what told me there was no going back. he was dead serious about it. the next day adam texted leon that photo of meghan crying, zip tied and duct taped. leon didn t respond, so the undercover officer called to tell him he d had to kill meghan. there s no reasoning with her. she just put too much risk on on us and she doesn t care, uh, about leaving. uh, that s pretty much it man. she s, uh, she s dead. she s gone. she was just like, you?
he meant valerie s ex-husband mack. that s right, this murder-for-hire was a double plot a two-fer. it seemed leon and valerie both wanted their exes dead. leon and taz left the table for a smoke and valerie talked specifics with adam about how he could bump off her ex-husband. he could have a boating accident. no? harder? the undercover officer suggested some simpler execution options take his car, leave him on the street. make sure he s dead. maybe put another bullet in his head. we call that a double tap. they ll think it was a robbery. but first adam wanted to know: was she sure? you need to give me the go-ahead. there s no going back on this, okay. what option do i have? he s gonna take my daughter. of course, explained adam, a second target would cost extra money. leon returned to the table to negotiate a payment plan. after after everything is done we ll take care of it listening in from a nearby
ex-boyfriend. brag doishs. leon wanted to testify. i never asked to have anybody hurt, killed, harmed, kidnapped. we had multiple discussions or conversations about not wanting to harm or hurt anybody. the state said that was just semantics. on cross-examination, prosecutor samantha connect pointed out despite leon s claim he hadn t explicitly asked for meghan or matt to be killed, he didn t shy away from talk. snatched her, put her in the room, and tell her if she doesn t leave [ bleep ], i m going to kill her parents. right? if that s what you say i said. did you say it, mr. jacob? sure. as for leon s claim he never
on this day in court, meghan thought leon and valerie looked like a couple. she learned later that valerie even posted leon s bond, with this man a bail bondsman named michael kubosh, who a couple of days later got an unsettling visit from leon. he shut the door behind him. was that odd? very odd. and he says, i m here because i wanna know one thing. leon asked the bail bondsman for help finding another client of his. leon said the client s name was zack. and i said, well i don t know a zack. who you talking about? he said, you know him. he s ex-military, ex-cia. he s middle eastern. leon said he d hired zack to do a job for him, but now couldn t find him. and then he tells me that he s paid him a lot of money to take care of this. take care of what? tell he said, she s got to go either back to pittsburgh. she s gotta be out of the picture. i m a doctor. i can t have her come to this court and testify against me. kubosh found leon s words frightening.
wig on, putting a hat on, jeans, tennis shoes, t-shirt, so that you know, she could try to be as inconspicuous as possible. meghan and arial checked the officers id s, one by one. then investigators shared the tip they got from the bail bondsman, michael kubosh. they think that my ex-boyfriend may have hired somebody to have me hurt. and that i, need to be surrounded by people 24 hours a day not be left alone. normally i would say that must have been shocking. were you all that surprised that i wasn t. the police suggested meghan go back to pittsburgh for a while. so she bought a ticket and flew home. meanwhile at the harris county d.a. special crimes bureau investigators jimmy turpin and mike mauldin started looking into leon. were you surprised to see a doctor involved in this? it was surprising to us. normally we don t deal with, professional people lookin to have somebody killed.