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[Narrator] Ohio police get a tip that
a woman wants her husband dead.

[Narrator] But as they race against the clock,
the killers begin to turn on each other.

[Narrator] Just who
is setting whom up?

[Narrator] Can police stop the plot
before an innocent man winds up dead?

Teams, detective sergeant
korski to work a prior case.

[Narrator] Undercover work is some
of the riskiest in law enforcement.

[Man] Okay, she’s out of the car,
okay, good deal, good deal, good deal.

[Narrator] One wrong move...

[Siren blaring]

[Narrator] ...Can cost a life.

[Man over loudspeaker]
This is the police, don’t move.

[Indistinct shouting]

[Narrator] In rare situations,
everyday people go undercover

in search of the truth.

They’re willing to risk it all.

Even taking down
friends and family.

This isn’t the movies, I
had to actually do this.

[Narrator] Doing the right thing
has never been so dangerous.

[Ted kroczak] Eastlake is an
east side, suburban community

that’s approximately
15, 20 minutes

from downtown
Cleveland, right on lake erie.

[Larry reik] Figure about,
uh, 19,000 population.

I have lived here since, uh, my
early 20s and raised my family.

It’s been a good
place to live and work.

It’s a beautiful, cozy,
little east side community,

where it’s very attractive for
young families to raise their children.

[Sue foreman] It
was a real small town.

The kids I went to kindergarten
with I graduated with.

Basically the same
group of people.

Everybody’s parents
knew everybody.

It was a small-town
feel around a big city.

[Narrator] And among
those who call eastlake home,

is a bright, young student
named Christine zombory.

I knew Christine from, uh,
going to high school with her,

we were in the
same class together.

[Foreman] I liked Chrissy,
she was quiet, she was smart,

she was not mean, she was nice.

[Ferrara] Everyone got
along, there was no problems.

We only had about 200 people in our
class, so, like, everyone knew each other.

Everything was close-knit.

Class of ’88.

See, that’s me right there.

See, that’s her.

Right there, that’s me.

She looks like Molly ringwald.

She was in the marching band.

I think she was a wolverette,
that’s, like, the marching

band, uh, cheerleader
kind of things.

She was in theater and choir.

Never got in trouble.

I remember one time,
it was senior ditch day

and we were gonna
go to mentor headlands,

the beach, you
know, on lake erie.

She’s the one that told
the teachers that we were

all ditching and
we all got in trouble.

She was that person,
like, a Debbie downer,

by-the-book, kind of
person, goody two-shoes.

You know, it was the late
’80s, so she was, like, a prep.

I don’t know if she was in the girl
scouts, she was kind of girl scout-y.

[Narrator] Among the more popular
kids at school, is Patrick sabo.

We were known to have a few, um,
cocktail get-togethers on the weekends,

as teenaged kids do.

He was real popular, he was
a party guy, he was a fun guy,

but he wasn’t, like, a
bully or mean or anything.

He was kind of in the
popular crowd, I wasn’t.

Yeah, I knew Patrick.

We were decent friends, we
were both, like, the class clowns.

You know, like, I won class
clown and he probably got second.

Christine was a smart kid,
she was in the, I don’t know,

probably the top
5% of the class.

I was in the bottom five,
me and pat. [Laughs]

We kissed a couple of times
at one party, but that was it.

That was my
relationship with Christine.

[Narrator] After high school, Christine
zombory leaves the eastlake area

and heads off to college
at houston’s rice university.

There she meets the man who will
become her husband, David metter.

And it started out as, you know,
something that little girls dream of.

You go to college and you
meet your knight in shining armor.

He saw that she came from
a great family, great home.

It just took a turn
where he thought,

"this is it, i’m gonna finally
have the family of my dreams

and live happily ever after."

[Narrator] The two
marry right after college

and settle down
in Houston, Texas,

where they start building the
family they had always wanted.

Their first daughter is
born soon thereafter.

She would be followed by three more
daughters, over the next several years.

They lived in more of a
rural, bedroom community,

pretty nice and affluent area.

David was just a
hardworking guy and was trying

to be as good of a father
as possible and take care

of, you know, the
responsibilities.

[Narrator] David finds
success in business early.

This gives him ample money to
take care of his growing family,

but often keeps him away
from home on business.

And I think that caused a
little trouble in the marriage.

It kept her back at home,
alone, often and possibly

wondering, you know, what
he’s doing while traveling.

Although she had a husband
and he was a great, doting father,

she was, pretty much,
raising the girls on her own.

She wanted to move back
to Ohio, where her parents

were still living, for
that support system, uh,

with her husband, knowing that he
was going to be out on the road a lot.

[Narrator] But instead of
moving back to eastlake,

David gets a brand
new job in Baltimore.

Although she was
very reluctant, she said,

you know, "let’s go to
Baltimore, let’s give it a try."

So they kind of uprooted their
family and moved to Baltimore.

[Valerie Hamilton] I
met Christy metter.

Our kids went to school
together in Maryland.

We became fast friends

and she had my kids all the
time, I had her kids all the time.

We had so much fun together.

Like, I just adored her.

I didn’t meet her husband that
often, ’cause he traveled a lot for work.

You know, he wasn’t
home very often

and she was really,
really jealous about that.

She was angry.

[Jordan] Christine absolutely
hated living in Baltimore.

Her support system wasn’t there,
it was hard meeting new people,

so she’s in this big city, really doesn’t
know anyone, raising her four daughters.

She’s vulnerable,
hurt, desperate.

[Jordan] No woman wants to be in
a situation when they’re not happy.

I mean, you have a big home,
you have four beautiful daughters,

but yet, you’re still unhappy.

So I think she kind of
resented him for that and that’s

when they started to get
the cracks in the marriage.

They decide to separate
and divorce, while in Baltimore.

She and the girls
move back to Ohio.

They move back
in with her parents.

Christine thought that,
you know, by being

back in Ohio, it would
be back to normal.

[Reik] Christine
lived with her father,

about 20 minutes south
of us in a pretty nice,

affluent, uh, bedroom
type community.

He was a former policeman.

Al was grieving, he had just
lost his wife to bone cancer.

Christine was a daddy’s girl, she
went to her father for advice often,

she would call him often,
even when she was away.

He was a doting, loving
father, as well as grandfather.

He seemed to be a very caring
father, but almost obsessed.

He really thought that, uh, David
was screwing his daughter over.

Chrissy was very
close with her father.

When you have your father, in
life, that’s your first love of your life,

that’s your first experience of
having a male figure in your life.

Your father teaches you
how you need to be treated

when it comes to relationships
and that kind of thing

and I just think that their
strong bond just, um, continued.

I know that she knew that her
father would do anything for her,

no matter what, whether it’s,
you know, caring for the children

or just being with them when
her husband had to be out of town,

just her safety net and provider,
when her husband wasn’t in town.

Christine, I think she
wanted her four daughters

to, pretty much, have the same
upbringing that she had growing up.

They move in with
al and I think he takes

the role of, "okay, my
family’s back home,

their father is
not in their life,

my daughter’s
husband’s no longer here,

so I have to take on the
role of father and grandfather

in a major way, a bigger
way than before, pretty much."

She was going through
her divorce in 2009.

[Narrator] Christine’s anger
at David continues to fester.

She kind of went
off the deep end.

Not long after he
divorces Christine,

David meets a woman
by the name of loni.

And within a year, they fall in
love and get married in Baltimore.

[Narrator] Soon after marrying,

David and his new wife
loni return to her hometown

of Atlanta to build
their new life together.

[Reik] He had a fresh start
and a good relationship going.

He was just trying to be a good
father and, you know, maintain that.

[Foreman] Chrissy was in Ohio
and they were in, I believe, Georgia.

She felt thrown away and lost
everything, so that’s what I got from her

and she was very hurt.

That’s when the custody
battle began for their daughters.

The strife going back and forth

one of the older kids
wanted to go live with dad.

David was granted custody
of his 16-year-old at the time.

Apparently that was not
making Christine happy.

Chrissy was extremely hurt
and extremely desperate.

Her kids and her life
was ripped away from her.

The oldest was
already down there

and the next one was
starting down that path.

I think Christine looked
at David as, you know,

"you’re trying to take
my family away from me."

Whether that was a catalyst
to get Christine to start

thinking, "I have to
stop this, because it’s

just gonna be a matter of time
before they’re all down there."

That could definitely be the kick-off
point that got her mind working.

[Narrator] Once Christine
returns to eastlake,

she reconnects with her
old high school friends online.

[Foreman] We all were
talking on Facebook, you know,

we were commiserating
together is what it was, so...

Patrick talks to all the
girls on Facebook.[Laughs]

I hadn’t talked to Christine
in 20 years, at least.

Popped back up
and we started talking

and every conversation
went to how bad her ex was.

Chrissy cried on his shoulder
too, for sure, on Facebook.

I was going through some
hard times with my ex.

She was going
through her hard times

and she was always
complaining about her ex.

We traded stories
and it’s, like,

"boy, I don’t know who’s the bigger
jerk, yours or mine," you know?

It was very bad. [Laughs]

[Sabo] Chrissy would go on and on
about what a piece of crap her ex was.

You try to have
a sympathetic ear.

So I sent her that one
text, so I say, uh, you know,

"save your money, hire a
hitman, laughing out loud."

About two, three hours later,

I get another message saying, "hey,
would you meet my father for lunch?"

I says to her, I say,
"yeah, i’ll get a free meal,"

you know, "yeah,
i’ll meet your dad."

Al zombory picks me up and, uh,
driving out my apartment complex,

he holds up his right hand that
has really bad arthritis and he says,

"if I could shoot straight, i’d have
killed the mf-er myself already."

I go, "well, I guess we
know why i’m here, then."

[Narrator] Patrick sabo is
meeting with al zombory,

the father of his old high
school friend, Christine.

But the two aren’t there
to talk about old times,

they’re talking about murder.

We knew, um, Patrick sabo, we
had dealt with him a number of times.

He’s definitely
not a wallflower.

He’s a guy that
was in decent shape,

still looked like he
could handle himself,

had his own set of
standards that he followed.

Al wanted Patrick to kill David.

Patrick and al met
at the captain’s club,

at the behest of the
messaging from Christine.

Al spoke to Patrick
about being a hitman

and taking David out of
the picture and killing him.

He gave Patrick much of
the same lines that she did,

that he was taking
the kids away,

that he was pitting
the kids against her

and just painted David as
just a really bad human being.

Geez, what a piece
of [bleep] David was

and he needs to pay for what he did,
you know, those past sins payment plans.

Well he offered me
$50,000 to kill christine’s ex.

She knew I was an army
ranger when I was a kid,

so she knew I had the
technical know-how,

how to do this
and the skillsets.

[Narrator] And the
money to pay Patrick

is to come from david’s
life insurance policy.

But time is of the essence.

[Reik] David had a
policy that even though

they were divorced, there was a
time frame between the actual divorce.

For the next year or so, she was
still the major beneficiary of his will.

And the money was going to go to her
if they had to cash in the life insurance.

And the life insurance is where the
money would eventually come from.

[Narrator] Patrick
agrees to the plan.

Told him i’d do it. Like I
said, I was in a hard way.

You know, he gave me a picture of
the guy and his address in Georgia.

And I said, "but I
need a little bit of time."

[Narrator] But the more
Patrick thinks about it,

the more he realizes that he
is not the right man for the job.

I get on the phone with al after
we decide, you know, what to do

and I said, "listen,
this is stupid."

You know, "if I do this, they’re
gonna come looking at me.

First thing they’re gonna
do is check all of your family.

They’re gonna check Facebook,
they’re gonna come back.

I can’t do this,
but I know a guy."

And they’re like, "what do
you mean you know a guy?"

I’m like, "the less you know,
the better, but I know a guy.

His name is Vince," I said, "I
know him from a couple biker bars."

[Exclaiming], all the
dominoes just fell.

[Narrator] Patrick agrees
to set up a second meeting

to introduce Vince
to christine’s father, al.

Al and Christine had no idea who Vince
was, but police know who Vince was.

The guy’s dangerous,
he does this type of thing.

If you want this job completed,
he’s the guy that’ll do it.

Al, uh, wanted to meet
him, I arranged a meeting.

The second meeting was to actually
firm up this, uh, murder-for-hire scheme.

And it was where Vince would
actually be introduced to al.

Vince wanted information about
how he’d get paid for doing this.

He needed, uh, david’s information,
where he could find David,

where David lived,
things like that.

And David was in
Georgia at that time.

[Narrator] And Vince quickly comes
up with a plan to get the killing done.

The plan was to make it look like
a robbery and have David killed,

um, during that robbery.

They gave Vince
a picture of David

and the address of
where he was living at.

Vince was going to kill David
with a robbery type scenario,

so nothing would
lead back to anyone.

Make it more spur of the moment,

rather than some type of crime
of passion here or something

other than just the theft.

And then moving back to another
state would, you know, just make things

better for Vince as a hitman.

Once he gets
out of there safely,

anything to draw him to that
crime scene would be little, if nothing

and, for Christine and al, both
being in a totally different state,

you know, it takes the
suspicion off of them.

They would have perfect alibis,

’cause they were in
their home state of Ohio.

They had to put up
some money up front

to make sure that, um, they were
serious and to cover expenses

for Vince to travel
down to Georgia.

Al gave, uh, Vince $2,000.

Vince has the $2,000
traveling money,

they shake hands,
the deal has begun.

The next step would be for him to travel
to Georgia, to carry out the killing.

[Narrator] A week later, Vince
returns to eastlake, looking to get paid.

So Vince contacts Patrick
to arrange another meet

with Christine
and her father, al.

I just told him, "okay,
listen, you know,

the job’s done, you gotta
meet them tomorrow?"

Then you better bring stuff.

My part was to facilitate
that both of them were there

and that they brought the will,
which was the form of payment.

I was actually on a video
zoom call with her at that time,

watching her rip apart her
home office, looking for the will.

The frantic, "okay,
where did I put it?"

And then she said she’s not
going, only dad’s gonna be there.

And I said, "look," I said, "Christine, I
understand you might be a little scared

and you have reason to be, because
you made an agreement with this guy

who went out and
killed somebody for you.

You don’t mess with this guy, if he
tell you to be there, you be there."

And she’s, like,
"[Exclaims], okay.

They picked me up again
and we go to the parking lot.

I get out of the car and I said,
uh, "you guys, this is between y’all."

I said, "i’m done."

I don’t want
nothing to do with it.

I’ve already gotten
involved enough,

I mean, it was bad
enough I was there.

[Narrator] But as al and
Christine enter vince’s car,

they have no idea that police
are listening to their every move.

[Kroczak] We were monitoring
and recording this entire meeting.

We also had visual surveillance
on the entire meeting.

[Reik] I was listening, as
well as detective kroczak.

And then we were on a
separate radio channel,

so other uniformed
officers that were in the area

could, uh, be by as
quickly as possible.

Police were on to Vince
from the very beginning.

And, uh, I knew exactly
what he was up to.

[Narrator] Police were on
to Vince from the beginning

and had been watching his actions ever
since he first met with Patrick and al.

They knew when the
first meeting took place.

They knew when he traveled to
Georgia and they knew when he returned.

[Narrator] But Christine
is about to learn

that hiring a hitman is a
lot easier said than done.

So Vince immediately tells Christine
and her father, "I ran into a problem."

[Narrator] Christine metter and
her father al think it will be easy,

but as soon as Vince
scardina returns to town,

he says their plan to kill christine’s
ex, in Georgia, ran into a snag.

Vince says, "hey,
there’s a problem."

[Narrator] The plan was to kill
David metter as he left for work

and make it look like
a robbery gone wrong.

But by the time
Vince gets there,

David is once again away on
business, this time in Florida.

[Reik] It’s all business.

Vince was using David not being
where he was scheduled to be

to show how much
extra work he put into it.

[Narrator] But as
police listen in, it’s clear

that Vince was still able to track
David metter down in Florida.

[Kroczak] As i’m listening to the
conversation between Vince, al and Christine,

there was no doubt
in my mind at that time

that their conversation was
about David being murdered.

Um, that David had been
actually killed by Vince.

All business, he’s discussing
exactly what happened

and, uh, he’s explaining
that he killed, uh, David.

Um, and he did actually
have a picture of, uh,

David deceased
on his cell phone.

David metter was gunned
down at a Florida hotel room.

You see him lying down
on the ground on his back,

with a bullet hole in his
head and there’s blood.

When he tried to show her the photo
originally, Christine seemed hesitant

and did not wanna
view the photo.

But Vince was adamant
that Christine look at the photo

and acknowledge
that that was David

then that the job has been done.

[Narrator] After
proving david’s death,

Vince turns his
attention to getting paid.

[Narrator] Vince had originally
agreed to do the job for $50,000,

which would be paid from
the life insurance proceeds.

[Narrator] But when he hears
how much the policy is worth,

Vince figures he’s due more
money for all his troubles.

I think Vince, at that point, wanted
to see how much more he could get.

Vince started haggling
at that point, on, uh,

seeing that the life insurance
policy was worth more.

[Reik] You’re talking about 7%,
8% of what the total amount would be

and none of it’s worth
anything if people go to jail.

So, to pay this guy another
$50,000 is probably better

than having him upset, or
blackmail, or anything like that.

Al did agree to, uh, paying
Vince additional money.

Vince then became
a little more stern,

once this killing was complete.

Vince wants to
be paid right now,

but unbeknownst to him, he
can’t get the insurance money yet,

because there’s no
body, at this point.

The insurance company needs a body,
in order to pay out the insurance money

and that’s something that al
and Christine could not provide.

[Narrator] Had David
metter been killed in Georgia,

as originally planned, he would
have been found immediately.

But since he is killed
in his Florida hotel room,

his body has gone undiscovered.

[Kroczak] Vince is
very anxious, "you need

to give me my money," in almost
a kind of threatening manner.

Christine was explaining that
there would be delay for the payment

and to get paid out, there would
have to be a death certificate.

Christine was waiting on a
distraught phone call from loni.

It never happened,
so Christine is, like,

"well, I haven’t
heard from loni yet,

maybe his body
hasn’t been found yet.

I don’t think loni knows that her
husband is dead, at this point."

Vince was definitely
being more paranoid,

he wanted to make
sure he got his money.

So that’s when Vince notices
people approaching the car.

He goes into panic mode,
he asks Christine and al,

"do you know who
these people are?

Because I don’t
know who they are."

[Reik] Vince, you
could hear over the tape,

said, "did you guys set me up?
What the heck’s going on here?"

[Narrator] As strangers
approached the car,

Vince turns on al and Christine,
thinking they’ve set him up.

And Christine starts to think,
"what have I gotten myself into?

What is going on?"

She’s absolutely
in over her head

and who are these
people, "am I being set up?"

She’s very confused,
sitting in this car right now,

not knowing who’s
approaching and why.

Police approach the
vehicle, they order everyone

out of the car with
their hands up.

Uniformed officers, as well as
plainclothes officers and myself move in.

We arrest everyone.

[Kroczak] We arrest al, we
arrest Christine, we arrest Vince

and we arrest Patrick.

We wanted to make sure
that al didn’t have any weapons

and took them out of the car
by gunpoint, all three of them,

took Patrick down as well
and we handcuffed them all

and then loaded them
up in the police cars.

[Reik] We brought al and Christine to
the station to begin booking process.

They both were reacting
very calmly for something

that you would feel that their
world was crashing around them.

[Kroczak] I informed al that
he was at the police department

as part of a solicitation
for murder investigation

and that David had been killed.

He makes a comment during the
interview that he should be killed.

After I read al his Miranda warning
rights, he requested an attorney.

[Narrator] With al
refusing to talk further,

police turn their
attentions toward Christine.

[Kroczak] And we brought Christine
to one of our interview rooms,

advised her of, basically,
what was going on,

why she was at the
police department.

She asked me why she was there.

Christine acted almost like she
was just pulled off the street randomly

and had no idea
why she was there.

[Kroczak] I used the words for
solicitation of murder, she asked me who

and I said, David, her ex.

She put on this show,
like, "oh, my god,

I can’t believe it, my
husband’s dead," stuff like that.

At that point, I read her her Miranda
rights and she asked for an attorney.

But she has no
idea that everything,

all the meetings,
all the conversations,

we had all the evidence,
all the recordings.

We actually, just 10,
15 minutes prior to it,

had the conversation recorded
prior to them being arrested.

She put on a pretty good show.

[Narrator] Despite her best
efforts to profess her innocence,

police have Christine
dead to rights,

leaving her to wonder
just who had set her up.

[Newscaster] Murder for hire.

A local woman plots the
murder of her husband

by trying to hire a
hitman for $50,000.

Holy crap. [Laughs]

I heard it on, uh, Facebook.

It was big news around here.

[Ferrara] "Oh, did you hear
Christine zombory hired a hitman?"

I’m, like, "there’s no way."

Wow, I can’t believe it.

[Narrator] With Christine
metter now behind bars,

a picture of an elaborate sting
operation begins to take shape.

[Kroczak] At that point,
al and Christine may have

been a little confused
at how they got caught.

However, I think they had
an idea that, "hey, the police

know that, uh, we
had David killed."

[Narrator] But just who
was working with police

to set up al, Christine,
Patrick and Vince?

None other than Vince himself.

Vince was not a hitman, he was a police
officer playing the role of a hitman.

That police officer
was Chris bowersock.

No, i’m not really a hitman.
[Laughs] I play one on TV.

I’m really not Vince,
my name’s Chris

and i’m a detective at the
eastlake police department.

Well, I was.

Since Ted and I did
undercover investigations

prior, we have our undercover names that we
used and, uh, I had used Vincent scardina.

[Reik] At the time,
detective bowersock

probably had 17
years full-time with us.

Chris always had a good
eye to get to the endgame

and to make good arrests and to
make sure everything was covered.

[Narrator] Chris and
detective Ted kroczak

had been running undercover
operations together for years.

Chris powersock, I
actually grew up with him.

Yeah, Ted and I were
friends, uh, probably from,

I don’t know,
second, third grade.

He lived across
the street from me,

so we used to hang
around together.

Ted went to the military, I
went to the sheriff’s office.

He left the military, came
back, got hired at eastlake,

I left the sheriff’s office
and became his partner.

During the operation,
he played it well

by letting them know, "my
concern is the money part of it,

but you gotta make sure
that you’re comfortable

with taking out the
father of your grandkids

and this can’t blow back on me."

And all the things that most
hitmen would be concerned of.

[Powersock] When al zombory got in the
car with me and he gave me the money,

I asked him several times, "are
you sure you want to do this?

He’s the father of your grandchildren,
are you sure you want this?"

"Absolutely."

And I said, "why do
you want him dead?"

He said, "why not?"

The exchange of money, the
request, the picture given to me

is all huge evidence, it’s physical
evidence that you can’t, uh, dispute.

I was struck that he
was a retired police officer

and he was hiring me to do this.

It’s interesting where people’s
lives change and take a turn.

[Reik] Having a law enforcement
background, you know he’s fired weapons

and probably has access to some
and would know how to use them.

[Powersock] When he
showed up for the last meeting,

when I was going to present the
picture of David metter being shot,

I had a gun under my left thigh,

uh, because who’s to say that
once they’re in the car with me

and I show them he’s dead,
that they don’t, uh, shoot me?

There’s a huge risk every time that
you do an undercover investigation,

um, there’s a risk
of being burned.

He did a great job in obtaining all
the evidence necessary for prosecution.

You know it’s an act, you’re
an actor and you play the role.

You separate yourself from reality
into fantasy, basically, that’s what it is.

And you stay in that role, ’cause if
you don’t stay in that role, you’re dead.

[Narrator] Of course, if
Chris isn’t really a hitman...

Then David is not really dead.

[Newscaster] As David
metter approached the bench,

he stood just a few feet from the
woman accused of trying to have him killed.

What we eventually found out
about this photo is that it’s fake.

[Reik] David was living
in Georgia at the time,

so, you know, it obviously added a
big complexity to the whole situation.

We had to make sure
that he stayed safe

and obviously it’s gotta
be just heart wrenching

to find out somebody that
you loved put all this in motion

along with your
former father-in-law,

but we also had to make sure
that we had contact with David,

so we could set the rest, of
what we decided to do, in motion.

We contacted gwinnett county, Georgia
and we explained to them the case.

[Jordan] The officers arrive at
David and loni’s house, in Georgia,

to let them know about this plan

that’s being carried out
and he’s not even home.

He’s away on business
in Florida, so once loni

finds out exactly
what’s going on,

she reaches out to her husband and
that’s when he learned about this plot.

David agreed to play dead.

He agreed to have this fake bullet hole
in his head and fake blood on the ground.

So, he played the
role to the very end.

I can’t say enough about
David and loni metter.

Nicest people i’ve ever met, they’ve
got a great family, they’re very giving

and they didn’t deserve any
of that, that happened to them.

My daughters, they miss their
mom, but they are so horrified

[voice breaks] By what she did.

What she did to us, what she
did to me, what she did to them.

Al was pretty adamant
to have David killed

and the officers involved
in this investigation

could very well possibly
have saved david’s life.

Really glad her husband’s alive.

Ex-husband. [Laughs]

[Jordan] They were both charged
with conspiracy to commit murder.

Al did not want to have his
daughter take the fall for this.

He says, "I did it all, I arranged
for this hitman to be hired.

I’m confessing to this. My
daughter had nothing to do with it."

Al had that much love for his daughter
and he would do anything for her.

Al pleads guilty, but
Christine pleads not guilty.

She plays dumb, "I have
no idea what’s going on."

So she denied everything
from the very beginning.

But the tapes told another tale.

At trial, the audio recordings of the
conversations were played for the jury.

I believe the recordings put a huge part
to really show what was inside of her soul.

[Narrator] It is also enough for the
jury to find Christine metter guilty.

When they pronounced her
guilty, that was an awesome feeling.

[Newscaster] Christine metter,
a 41-year-old mother of four,

told the court that she
still has much to offer.

Please, your honor,
let me prove that i’m still

a very valuable
asset to society.

Thank you.

[Narrator] But the
judge is not swayed

and Christine is given a
stiff sentence for her crimes.

[Jordan] She was sentenced to a
maximum of 10 years behind bars

for conspiracy to commit murder.

Al is sentenced to nine
years, he’s in jail and he dies

before he’s
released from prison.

[Narrator] That leaves
only one question.

What was Patrick
sabo’s role in all of this?

[Narrator] He was
in on it the whole time

and had no intention of
helping Christine kill her ex.

You know what?
Go [bleep] yourself.

When I said, "save your money
and hire a hitman, laughing out loud..."

Nobody takes me serious,
I joke a lot, that’s who I am.

For her to take me
serious, that bothered me.

Up until that point,
she was my friend.

A friend would never ask
another friend to do that.

And when i’m getting an
address and a picture of the guy,

I know they’re serious.

I can’t just sit back
and do nothing.

I gonna pick up a newspaper
and see in the headline,

"David metter shot in the head."

Am I gonna be able
to live with myself?

No, it’s not happening,
so I called the cops.

Patrick called me, told me
what happened at dinner.

We care about Chrissy,
her life sucked at that point,

but when I told him, "if not you,
she’s gonna find someone else,"

he’s, like, "yeah, I thought
of that and you’re right.

And I can’t mess
around with this."

Then he went to
the eastlake police.

Oh, Patrick absolutely
did the right thing.

If, uh, he didn’t, they may have found
someone who would kill David for $50,000.

There are people out
there that will, you know.

[Sabo] Cop cars coming in,
swarming in, arresting everybody.

And one thing that
I will never forget

is her face and she
knows she’s in trouble,

getting out of the car
and being arrested.

Stoic, no emotions, none.

Not a, "[Gasps], what did
I do? My kids," you know.

No come to Jesus
moment, no remorse.

Nada.

I’m pretty proud of what
happened in that case.

Saving somebody’s life,
basically what we were doing,

intervening on somebody
that could have been murdered.

Um, it’s pretty gratifying
and it’s very rewarding.

And i’ve done some
pretty interesting things

in my life and i’m
pretty proud of that.

It’s my personal opinion
that Chrissy is a good person

and I wish she would have come
to me and talked to me about it,

instead of going ahead
and doing what she did.

She did wrong and, yeah, it
was a moment of desperation,

it was a bad
decision, but she did it.

[Narrator] After
serving her 10 years,

Christine metter is released from
prison and is working to rebuild her life.

She snapped, but no
matter what happens,

there’s no reason to
kill children’s fathers

and have them grieve
for the rest of their life

that their dad can’t
walk them down the aisle.

[Foreman] She’s out now
and she can rebuild her life.

She’s a smart, capable
person, she made a mistake,

she paid for it.

I hope she can rebuild a relationship
with her children and move on.