that the witness gave mr. as mr schmore an out. i don t need you five, ten years from now tripping me. no, man. i mean, it s my life, man. got. i mean, that s the only motherf ing thing. come on, man, you know i m solid. i do. you said what i wanted to hear. kill the pitch. kill the pitch. the witness is talking about something shocking and the witness i think understandably is trying to confirm that mr. schmore isn t joking, so there is repetition. mr. schmore frequently says, kill the pitch, kill the pitch?
in his version, his family falls apart, starla becomes violent, erratic and a danger to herself and others. she s disgraced. she s disgraced everything, herself, family, me, you. she didn t disgrace me. everything she touched, man, she wrecks people. even after starla leaves and relocates to new orleans, patrick maintains it s the witness who orchestrates the plot. in a letter to msnbc, patrick writes, he spoke of killer women who came to murder their exs. he had through his manipulations made starla into a clear and present danger and then projected himself as the solution i eventually submitted to his way of thinking and agreed to the crime. it s hard to know exactly what happened, who put that idea out there, but from what the tapes show, mr. schmore was dead
one pop, one pop, it s over. greene county, virginia, 2009. 28-year-old patrick schmore is caught on tape listening impassively to an aparent hitman boasting about completeing an assignment, the assassination of patrick s estranged wife, starla knight. friends and relatives are baffled over the distinction of the soft spoken real estate agent as the architect of a murder for hire scheme. mr. schmore does not fit the profile of a killer. where did you put her remains? the lake. tied up. with some chains i bought from the dump yard. mm-hmm. it just dropped so easy, man,
patrick s estranged wife, living with friends in new orleans. witness no. 1 with $1200 to travel to the big easy and literally hunt her down. he goes to new orleans with the $1200 that patrick schmore has given him and rather than commit the murder that he s been solicited to commit. he goes to starla and says, hey, check this out. patrick wants me to kill you. he plays for her the actual recorded conversation in which patrick does make the solicitation. kill the pitch. kill the pitch. kill her. he was no more of a hitman than patrick was. i don t think he ever had any intention or knowledge of how to carry this out. shortly thereafter, he walks into the local fbi office and talks with a couple of the agents that are there and provides the tape to them. dude, i ve been a warrior for a long time. i ve got the heart of a warrior,
she didn t disgrace me. everything she touched, man. she wrecks people. it would not have been nearly as effective as a matter of proof for the witness to say, i killed starla, isn t that great? and he nods his head. what was krubl was for patrick schmore out of his own mouth to voice intent. i d rather she didn t get found. why? i did what i did. now you i m ready to get paid, i m ready to get paid. all right. okay, i did my part. now i m ready to be paid. i think it completes the whole plan of a murder for hire or a murder for some type of consideration. can i get paid? yeah, man, i will soon.