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
In carrollton, texas. Remarkably, she survived. Ek nancy howard was Shot Poi Blank at her home In Carrollton, texas. Remarkably, she survived. A week into the investigation, detectives got a lead from an inmate who claim to know he knew the real story behind the crime. His name was billy earl johnson. The cops nude he was a tough guy from east texas, an area about 90 miles from carrollton, home to those piney woods. Billy was the ringleader of a colorful crew. Many petty criminals, related to billy by blood or marriage. Certainly a strange cast of characters. East texas folks and some people might depict them as the he hog gang. A gang just getting by in a region struggling to make it. Theres a lot of drugs and methamphetamine. Someone makes money, extra money, they handed out to each other. It is meeting with investigators, he was a Man On A Mission who wanted to cut a deal and fast. I got grandkids that i want to spend the rest of my life with. I want to be free. And i went out this
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
grandkids i want to spend the rest of my life with. i want to be free. billy told the cops he knew things about the shooting that they did not, including the identity of the hit team. he played hardball. even as he mixed his metaphors. i got the big ace in the hole and i got the ball in my court on this. if y all want this murder, this attempted murder solved y all need to work with me because i ain t playing. y all want it i ll give it to you. but if the cops didn t want to play then billie earl was going to zip it. i m not giving up nothing until i ve got something solid on my end. i ll die with it. he thought he was in control. because he was sitting on an important piece of information. oh, yeah. and so i, you know, i told him, i can t go to the d. a. with you just saying this. you got to provide some information. reporter: so billie did. he was in jail on drug charges the night nancy was shot. but he told investigators he not only knew who ordered the hit on nancy,
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.