palm beach, the area? that's a question probably for the fbi. if he's been at the golf course prior to this, scoping it out, we're in the process of collecting a lot of evidence, and that will be part of that investigation to determine his whereabouts going back quite some time. do you have any where he might have gotten in the woods? that's part of the investigation as well. again, that's going to be a little bit challenged until we're able to determine the serial number on that gun. so we're hopeful to be able to do that. the history of mental illness. we're still looking into that. the highest level of protection that they would lock down the golf course was that a miscommunication then, being that president biden ordered the highest level of protection? do you want to take that, sheriff? go ahead. okay, so here's the deal. when it comes to secret service protection, we provide the highest level. so for example, yesterday, counter assault team elements. i'm not going to go into the number of personnel that we have out there. but we have the highest levels of

secret service. when we work with the palm beach county sheriff's office, like for example, yesterday during that emergency action response, we had their local tactical team assets partnered with our local tactical tactical team assets. we had their helicopter up in the air, providing us 360 and situational awareness of the overhead for any if there were any potential threats coming to at us. so what we did yesterday was exercise our emergency plan based on the number of tactical assets and the highest level of protection that we are providing. the sheriff and i have talked now, clearly, when you go down southern boulevard right now and you try to get over to palm beach and you see the robust presence that's existing outside of mar-a-lago, the heavy uniformed presence, the additional assets of the secret service. and for those of you that were here in 20, in 2017 when the president was in office, when you look at that footprint now and you look at it today, i there's not much difference there. there is

heavy uniformed presence out there. and again, when i go back to is yesterday was an off the record movement. off the record. and the president wasn't even really supposed to go there. it was not on his official schedule. and so we put together a security plan and that security plan worked. i know that the secret has asked for additional resources in the vicinity. special agent daltry, in terms of him being in the vicinity, based on his phone records, is there any evidence to show that ralph was in this in the vicinity, in the area before sunday? and when you say in the vicinity, does that mean right there at that spot in those bushes, or could it have been you know, down the street at a restaurant? it was in very close proximity to where he was spotted by the secret service. in terms of your first question, whether he was there earlier, our investigation is still looking to determine that, given. whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. we're going to do two more. you get one. thank you. all right. only two more. you get one. okay. we understand that the secret service has asked congress for additional resources since the butler rally. have you received those

resources yet? so thank you for that question. so we are working. look, the secret service operates under a paradox of zero fail mission, but also that we have done more with less for decades. and this goes back many, many, many, many decades. right. what i can tell you is that we have immediate needs right now, and we have great support not only from president biden. and you saw his public statement today where he said that, you know, he's going to direct his staff to make sure that the secret service has the resources it needs. we're having fantastic conversations with members of congress. i've been up to the hill last week. we are continuing to have those conversations. but the long and short of it is this coming out of butler, i have ordered a paradigm shift. the secret service's protective methodologies work and they are sound, and we saw that yesterday. but the way we are positioned right now in this dynamic threat environment, it has given me guidance to say,

you know what? we need to look at what our protected methodology is. we need to get out of a reactive model and get to a readiness model. there could be another geopolitical event that could put the united states into a kinetic conflict, or some other, some other issue that may result in additional responsibilities and protectees of the united states secret service. and so we are working we are making information available to all of our partners. and i just want to say that the commitment of congress to the secret service throughout the years has been tremendous, and we will continue to work with them. and secretary mayorkas, whose support and making sure that we're getting what we need, has been phenomenal. he is one of our biggest champions and our advocate. and so we're having these conversations and i feel confident that we will get what we need. we have immediate needs. we have future needs to i need to make sure that our counter-snipers are the best trained counter snipers in the

world, that they are exactly doing what we need them to do, and that they match counterparts in the military and tier one forces. and right now we are working with congress to make sure that we get those for our training facility. we also have a necessary need for to make sure that we're getting the personnel that we have, and that requires us to be able to have the funding to be able to hire more people. you can't just give me money and say, hey, we're going to make sure that everybody gets overtime because the men and women of the secret service right now, we are redlining them and they are rising to this moment, and they are meeting the challenges right now. and if you look back at their body of work over the last 60 days, the republican national convention in milwaukee, the republican national convention in chicago, a visit of prime minister netanyahu to washington, dc, and to west palm beach, which palm beach county sheriff's office supported. and then we go into the presidential debate in philadelphia last week. and for those in the media that

have been to a national special security event, if you saw the national constitution center last week, what you saw was pretty much a mini national special security event with the number of assets that were on that perimeter. and so our folks are rising to this moment, but it requires all of us to be able to have good conversations and make sure that we're getting the secret service where it needs to be. and i'm confident that we will achieve that because we don't have an alternative success. we have to have it every day. we cannot have failures. and in order to do that, we're going to have some hard conversations with congress and we're going to achieve that. last question. one more. special agent in charge of the fbi. yes sir. did he act alone? did he have some kind of help? at this point, we're still, exploring that. investigating that our investigation will determine that. we do not have information that he's been acting with anyone else at present. do we know how long

he's been in florida? when he arrived? oh, you snuck one in there at this point, our investigation is still determining that. thank you. all right. anyhow. oh that's it. we're not going to. we're not going to do any more. all right. you got a lot of information there. the last thing i will tell you is, like, the director of the secret service says, you know, the president called me last night. president trump. he thanked me for everything that we did along with the secret service. he knows we work great together, and he feels safe. that's important because he is. and what we did yesterday proves that the system can work because the suspect didn't even get close to getting a round off. and we apprehended him and brought him to justice. so we're we're very, very proud of that. thank you, folks, for being here i appreciate it. how do you pronounce his last name? that's an update from authorities in west palm beach, florida. during this news conference, president biden

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now, a sensational murder for hire plot that made international news not just for the crime, but also for the courtroom antics of the accused. the defendant in this case, a former model, tara lambert, was blessed with movie star looks. but some say she has a dark and ugly soul. she was accused of hiring a hit man to kill her mortal enemy and cameras rolled the entire time. small town beauty tara lambert concocted a big time plot. >> well, i have somebody that might be able to help you out. you know how much i would love that. >> hiring a hitman to murder the mother of her two stepdaughters. i'm not, like having an in my car. >> just thinking about it. >> only one problem. the woman, tara thinks, who's setting up

the hit is working with cops. hey, girl. hey. >> you look so pretty. you stop. >> this is the dramatic surveillance video from that meeting. tara telling an undercover cop exactly how she wants her rival, kelly cooke, done away with. >> and what do you want done with her? oh, my god, just put her in a chopper. >> like. like one of those lumberjack chopper things. >> circleville, ohio. like something out of a brochure for small town american living. and in an understated little community like this, a bleach blond knockout like tara was hard to miss. >> she was daddy's girl. >> high school friend ginny cheadle was not. but after high school, the girls drifted apart. that is, until tara had a problem she thought ginny could solve. >> k e l l i e and it's 11-6 hook kelly blevins cook the woman tara calls her problem.

>> she was tara's husband's ex-wife and the biological mother of tara's two stepdaughters. >> though tara was actually very good to these girls, i think she really wanted to be the mom to brandon's children. >> but tara wasn't their mom. and even though brandon and kelly had a custody agreement in place, somewhere along the way, things turned ugly. according to reports, kelly wanted to modify the custody arrangement and a series of legal battles ensued. >> i think it's a typical domestic where everybody's fighting with everybody. >> there was no love lost between the lamberts and the cooks, but tara had what she thought was a perfect secret weapon, jenny cheadle. >> i know i can't wait to see you. i haven't seen your in forever. i know it was like a million years. >> tara had a special request. she wanted jenny to make an anonymous phone call telling kelly to back off or else jenny

actually did. >> what tara asked when jenny had called her back and said, hey, i made the phone call and i did threaten her. >> she said, oh my gosh, this is tara's comments to jenny were, oh my gosh, if i could find a way to legally murder her, i would. >> then another request a few months later, the text message that she received indicated. >> do you know anyone hard up for cash that will take care of our issue for good? >> almost immediately, jenny responds, and a devious plot is set in motion. >> well, i have somebody that might be able to help you out. >> you know how much i would love that in a series of chilling texts and phone calls, jenny acts as the go between for tara and the man she wants to take care of her issue for good. >> he wants to know how much you'll pay him. oh girl. i mean the bottom line is, if we're only going to hurt her, then i want her to be hurt, like, more

permanent. >> you know what i mean? >> yeah, like disabled. okay. but if we want to go all the way, then i want it to look like an accident. >> over the next several days, tara and jenny continue ironing out the details. in just one week, after an initial text. i hate her so bad. >> i've never hated someone besides, tara lambert is onerwa. >> what's going on with you? i hear you got a problem. i need her away. >> gone. and commutative. >> but what? tara didn't know. >> can i hear you talking? >> jenny was actually working with police. the entire time. >> those phone calls that you talked to her about was recorded. what next on true crime news watch as the evidence against tara is piling up with her very own words, all you have to do is watch the video. those phone calls that yo talked to

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fast free shipping. shop corelle.com today. >> welcome back to true crime news. tara lambert is determined to have her husband's ex-wife killed, but she walks straight into a trap and now police know about the murder plot to watch as the evidence against tara is piling up with her very own words. tara lambert wanted kelly cook, the mother of tara's two stepdaughters, dead, and she thought old friend jenny was just the person to get the job done. >> she was looked at as somebody that associated with those kind of people that could go pretty quick. >> instead, jenny contacted police, sheriff radcliff, detective rex emerick, and lieutenant dale parrish brought her to the station to formulate a plan. >> hello?

>> hello. what are you doing? >> very quickly, they started talking about having kelly hurt permanently or having her killed by saying, going all the way with it and just one week after reaching out to her old friend for help, tara was on her way to a store parking lot to hire a hit man. >> what's going on with you? i hear you got a problem. >> just put her in a chopper like one of those lumberjack chopper things. >> and if her target's husband got in the way, want him to go to. >> i really don't mind. i mean, it's your griffin. yeah. i mean. >> all you have to do is watch the video. >> i really appreciate this. >> she had just sat down with a person that she didn't know to be anything other than a hit man. gave him a photograph of somebody she wanted killed in a wood chopper, and then proceeded to go into walmart and just go shop. >> 20 minutes later, she walks straight into the back of a squad car.

>> all right. am i really like, arrested? >> yes. you're under arrest. oh, my god. >> at first, tara tries to deny even having a major problem with kelly. we were best friends, really? >> for, like, okay, not best friends, but we were really good friends. >> it's my understanding that you disliked her very much. >> i just want to beat her face in, to have kelly killed my stepdaughter's mother. yes. no. >> those phone calls that that you talked to her about was recorded. what? yes, they are recorded. and it's you that wanted to have her killed? no no, i want her to suddenly stop harassing us. >> she indicated that it was over going to court. over that visitation. >> even without an actual confession. prosecutors felt they had more than enough to go to trial. >> this is the most notorious

case i have ever covered in pickaway county. for the trial, tara hires attorney james kingsley. >> according to him, tara was actually entrapped by the state of ohio and jenny cheadle, she says you can't back out of this. >> you need to bring some money. >> this guy is no joke. da da da da da. i'm like, what am i supposed to do? >> they put an expert on the stand who was a psychologist who tried to testify that she didn't have the capacity to really understand the nature of what she was doing. >> her attorney even used those five inch stilettos as part of his defense, asking the jury not to quote, judge her by her shoes. lambert doesn't know what's appropriate for a situation. she's childlike. life's a fantasy to her. the jury doesn't buy it. and after just 40 minutes, finds tara guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit murder and not guilty of conspiracy to

kill. kelly's husband. >> we're hoping that she'll stay off the street as long as possible. >> once she was convicted and she appeared in an orange jumpsuit and orange plastic shoes and no makeup, she wasn't near as dramatic as she had been during the trial. >> kelly, sean and your kids, i am truly sorry for the harm that my actions have caused. >> the judge shows little mercy. this is probably the first time in your life, now that you're 33 years of age. >> you've come in front of somebody who's taking control or will take control of your life and say, no, you're not going to do that. >> shockingly, an appeals court overturned the verdict because of a paperwork error. after being re-indicted, lambert pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated murder and was sentenced to five years, with time already served. tara was soon released. she is now remarried and has a child of her

own. but wait, there's more news. tara ended up suing her lawyer in the first trial for providing ineffective counsel.

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want to leave you now with a somewhat unusual arrest. we've all seen the videos of people trying to escape police by taking off and starting a high speed pursuit, but what about hiding in the car? that's exactly what happened in irvine, california. a woman suspected of shoplifting at lululemon and sephora. she tried to slip away from police by hiding in the trunk of her tesla. irvine pd popped the trunk and placed her under arrest. she just came after me. >> for what they say. >> she had $850 in stolen goods. that's it for today's true crime news. i'm anna garcia. join us next time. crime doe sn (dramatic music) - [elizabeth] today on "icrime," police chase on aisle 3." - [officer] get down on the ground now. - [narrator] a high-speed police chase on one of california's busiest freeways, and this... (sirens blaring) (tires skidding) (bumper crashing) (dramatic music) (leg bashing) (baton whacking) - you're looking for somebody else, man. - oh my god.