oh, my got. he shot me. it came out of nowhere. a sweet stay-at-home mom from a strong family of faith shot point blank at her own garage door. my dad is like collapsed on the ground. it was very traumatic to see, very very emotional time. her survival seemed like a miracle. i didn t know if i would live. was this some awful random crime, or did someone want her dead? that was mystery number one. someone was out there. yeah, we were scared. mystery number two, a secret 1,600 miles away. there were several text messages. it s just slowly snowballing. it was like a punch in the gut. and mystery number three? i m going to hurt you. who would they turn out to be? i m like damn, what did this lady do? faith, temptation, and a twist the size of texas. let s be very clear. justice needs to be served. i don t think it has been. carrollton, texas, just north of dallas, is the kind of place where the upwardly mobile go to buy their dreams. the sc
to get me to kill that woman. did he really? because he do you want the truth? yeah, i want the truth. you got that recorder on? yeah. i ve got to have the truth. yeah, you re [bleep] right that son of a bitch tried to get me to kill that woman. reporter: now out of jail, charlie told us that sometimes john transferred money between bank accounts and sometimes john met charlie and billie and handed over packages of cash at a hamburger joint or gas station, and john was always pressing them to get the hit done. i mean, he was, hey, do you think you can get it done now? what s the chances? where are you all at? billie would tell him, you know, we re about an hour away. we ll call you when we get close. okay. well, call me when you got confirmation. i want this thing done. and i was like, damn, what did this lady do? reporter: as long as john was willing to pay, charlie says billie and his family were willing to talk about killing nancy. and every time the hit didn t h
learned that nearly a dozen people from east texas knew about the plot to kill nancy. charlie louderman was one of them. so have you heard about the shooting in carrollton? yeah, i heard about it. everybody else heard about it, and do you know who s involved with it? yeah. who s that? billie earl johnson and mr. john. mr. john. so you know mr. john? yeah, i know mr. john. reporter: charlie louderman was one of the few who was not related by blood or marriage to billie earl johnson. billie earl johnson. he s one mad son of a bitch. reporter: charlie, who started out as a bodyguard for billie earl, says billie and mr. john tried to get him to shoot nancy howard. this [bleep] man, he tried
immediately after hearing details only an insider could know about the nancy howard shooting. their informant was billie earl johnson. he was the patriarch of an east texas family. he claimed he d been involved in a plot to kill nancy. wall and turner wanted to talk to those family members starting with billie s stepson dustin hiroms. billie earl didn t seem to think much of him. he s so stupid. he didn t know how to put antifreeze in a pickup truck. that dude don t know nothing about nothing. reporter: dustin hiroms, remember, was the young man pulled over in nancy s neighborhood a month before she was shot.
and which one pulled the trigger, i don t know. but i know both of them. reporter: billie told the detectives he thought the murder for hire plot began sometime around 2009. i was laying on the couch and the phone rang. reporter: a stranger was on the line. how he got my information from them, i don t know. reporter: the stranger said his name was john. he said you don t know me, told me his name. said, i don t know you but i was told you might be the one to do a job for me. reporter: the job? kill nancy howard. he wanted it done as an accident so it wouldn t come on him. like a carjacking or a purse snatching. reporter: john was a man of means, he told the detectives, who drove a lexus and communicated with a disposable drop phone. see that number right there?