there was phony blood coming out of his mouth. >> in long beach, california, police convince a minister to fake his own death. >> there was dirt where it looked like he is struggled in the dirt. >> to convince his wife the hit she planned was successful. >> the informant says well, do you want him beat up or do you want him killed? and she says, beat up, hell, i can beat him up. >> no! no! >> if we could give out an academy award, mane man, she's

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about a hitman to kill her husband, charles, a minister at a local church. >> i was in the office, just myself and another detective. and we received a phone call from a burglary detective. he informed me that he had in custody a subject that had some information that he wanted to pass on. >> the inmate is being held on possession of stolen property, but claims to know about a more serious crime. >> he said that he had been contacted to kill somebody. >> the motive? a $100,000 insurance policy. perma jean, a school bus driver, hopes to receive after her husband dies. >> this was a klattic couple of opposites attract. charles -- about the only way you could describe him is he just seemed like a perfect gentleman. and she was at the opposite end of the scale. >> perma jean seemed a little rough around the edges. a little bit more street wise, maybe. >> she had drawn the informant into the scheme after meeting

him at this intersection near her home. >> the informant was really -- he was quite a character. he was a homeless guy. he was living under a bridge at the time. and he would wash windows on cars and that's where they ultimately struck up a -- a friendship. >> the informant is an opportunityist. if he was walking along the street and he saw a bicycle looig laying down he would get get on it ride away and try to sell it for maybe $20. >> informant was not a hitman but when he got arrested he knew he had something to bargain with, so he came forward with the information. >> police are interested in working with him. they removed him from jail so they can videotape him meeting with perma jean in the parking lot a popular restaurant chain. >> here she comes driving up in a camaro, only she had another person with her. which was kind of a surprise to

us. turn out it was her son, who was also in on the deal. no you ain't his child. >> jesse prisonset 19 years old and would later tell police he loves his stepfather. >> when he married her, he took that young man in and treated him as his own son. >> in the camaro the topics wildly shift from the murder plot to informant's taste in women. >> i want a woman with gray heir. i want one that old. that's the way i want one. >> he was a real demonstrative person. he was quite a likable guy. but he spoke street slang. and we had to have the conversation with him that when he talked to perma jean he had to talk in such a manner that a jury would understand what she wants.

>> nobody is going to hear this conversation. >> like you was telling me jed you don't want jesse involved because people know he has been feuding with the dummy. >> the informant is referring to charles by a nickname nobody in his church has ever heard. >> perma jean and the informant referred to him as the dummy. it was an in-house joke. trust me, he was not dumb at all. >> i ain't never killed nobody. >> in previous conversations the informant has claimed he can't do the job himself and is subcontracting the slaying to an imaginary hitman named joe. >> joe will put bullets in him. joe has a couple 817s under his belt. >> 187 is street slang for the section in the california penal code defining murder. >> he just beat a 187 out of a

chp officer. that's why he don't want to meet anybody because he don't want nobody to see him. >> the anecdote is more fiction created by the inforn forman. >> you can tell them to do one thing and they throw in something else. i'm sure actors do the same thing. >> i told you $2500. >> the two agree on a fee of $2500 as soon as perma jean receives the settlement from the insurance company. >> i got the license number now. just gave it to he moo. now we are going to wait in the front for him in the morning. >> all i can tell you about his schedule is that he leaves at 5:30 in the morning you. >> want him killed or do you just want him beat up? >> i can beat him up. >> the informant says, well, do you want him beat up or do you

know him, you know, killed? she instantly comes back and she says, beat up? hell, i can beat him up. >> so you want him killed, took out? i'm just saying. joe's going to kill him. >> don't beat him up orring in like. that just blow his head off. >> that door was always left open that she could say no, i don't want him killed. and she never took that step forward. >> what is he going to do take the car and drive him somewhere? >> yeah. >> he is going to scream until everybody is looking. he ain't going to let -- as soon as he comes in contact he better kill him. now let's get out of here and get some donuts. >> they are in the middle of this conversation and one of them starts talking about being hungry. then they start talking about donuts. so now the conversation about a murder contract seems to be put on hold to go to a discussion about donuts. >> let's go get donuts.

>> i don't want to get some donuts. i want to get some beer. >> they did get out of the car. and then they started becoming animated. and then they start like slap fighting one another. we were just speechless watching this little carrying on. >> i don't believe this. this is nuts. but we've got to remember, even though we're out there and it's exciting and it's fun, this man's whole life is crumbling. >> police will now have to convince hmm to aid their case by staging his own death. >> everybody said the same thing, hey, this guy is not going to get down in the dirt and do this. don't just visit orlando

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>> september 9th, 1993, school bus driver perma jean prisonette is caught on tape planning the murder of her husband, charles, minister of a small church in long beach, california. >> you can plug that boy four or five times. you better be listening to what i'm saying. >> i'm listening. >> what she doesn't know is her accomplice is an informant who allows police to tape the exchange after getting arrested on unrelated charges and trying to cut a deal. once perma jean leaves he patiently waits for detectives to take him back into custody. >> we did not want her to know that he's getting back in a car with us. we wanted her to feel ultimately that he's going to go do whatever he does. when in reality we are going to take him back to jail. >> police are now worried about the reverend, who has been sharing a home with a woman trying to engineer his murder. >> we needed to get ahold of her husband and tell him. so we got a black and white patrol car, and we sat on his

house the next morning real early and watched him leave and headed off to work. we got him out of the car and just basically told him that we had a video that he needs to see. >> i don't care what he does as long as he comes in contact with him, he better kill him. >> you could tell at that moment instantly he was a he can broen guy. >> according to police, charles is particularly upset by the sight of his 19-year-old stepson, jesse, helping his mother conceptualize the hit. >> here's two people that he trooly believes that he loves and he has given his life to are going to kill him. >> when he had a chance to absorb the fact that his wife wanted him killed he had told us there had been a couple of other attempts on his life. he was driving in his car back from work, and he heard what he thought first sounded like a backfire. >> and at that time in the

county of los angeles we had had some random shootings on the freeway. and he did turn and he saw the barrel of a rifle coming back into a car and he saw the car speed away and then further talking with the guy we found out that he came home from work one night and there were a couple of thugs in his house with a pipe. and he escaped being beat up on that time. he just thought somebody had come to burglarize his house. >> although she is never charged, investigators suspect that perma jean orchestrated both near death encounters. >> after hearing about the attempted shooting on the freeway, the attempted robbery, and now this, if he is a revere reverend, he has got some pull upstairs. it's possibly worked for him and it's working for him. >> as the truth sets in, the minister offers to do whatever he can to help police. >> i said, well, we'd like you not to go home tonight. so we'd like you to go missing all day. and we'd like to see what happens. and then we'll like the make you

up like you are dead and present it to your wife and see what the reaction we get. so we put him up in a hotel that night. the guys picked up charles prisonette in the morning from the hotel. they swung by a mcdonald's and they grab a number of ketchup packets and off they went to the crime scene. >> the fabricated crime scene is a vacant lot where police lay the minister down and start taking polaroids. >> there was phony blood coming out of his mouth. there was dirt where it looked like he is struggled in the dirt. >> everyone said the same thing, hey, this guy is not going to get down in the dirt and do this. i convinced them. i g it's not going to take that all, you don't have to lay around all day. a quick couple photos and we'll clean you up. >> the plan, bring perma jean and jesse prisonette to the scene to help convince them the

murder was successful. >> we had labs out there, we had all the bells and whistles that you would see at an open field location crime scene. we had that set up. >> we had a patrol car go to her house and we transported her back to the scene and at that time we had that car wired for sound. >> we knew exactly where the car was going to drive and are they were going to stop so we could get the right angle from it. >> they say the body has been removed from the crime scene. >> wait one minute. i'll be right back. >> when the officer excuses himself detectives listen to see if the two will implicate themselves. >> just wait one minute. i'll be rig wil d she makes a comment about the fingerprints. maybe they are going to catch this guy, and lead it back to me some way, some how. >> an officer then produces the pictures of the charles laying in the field. >> we could see that the officer

turned around and showed them a picture. >> no! >> and we could hear -- the audio was perfect. >> and we could give out an academy award man, she's right up there. >> let me take that, jean. oh. oh. oh! >> calm down. when was the last time you guys saw charles? >> yesterday morning. >> did you hear from him at all yesterday? >> nothing at all. >> has he talked about any problems or -- anybody give him any trouble? somebody who would want to hurt him? >> not that i know of. >> she did say that she filed a missing persons report. and we did find that she had. like she is the loving wife who is missing her husband.

>> he was a minister. why would someone do that to him? >> weren't just going to arrest their out there in the field. we had gone to the extent of letting her believe that charles was dead. but we also wanted to be in a room where it was a controlled environment. >> maybe he was the victim of a robbery. we're not sure. we found some items out here in the field. we'll take you to the station for a few minutes just to look at some jewelry items. >> she didn't want to go down to the station. and we convinced her we just want you to identify a few things, and it won't take very long at all, and we'll have you back home. >> we need that to be done. if we could do that -- it's a five-minute drive. we'll do it. i know it is an inconvenience, but we really need the help.

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after police show them these photos of reverend charles prisonette, perma jean's husband and jesse's stepfather, seemingly dead in a field. >> i want to go home. >> at this point, no one has accused the two of any crime. but they are told they are needed at the police station to identify charles prisonette's belongings. >> everybody knew what was going on except them. >> for instance, they are unaware that the entire crime scene is a fabrication and detectives have this footage of them speaking to an informant planning the murder. >> i don't care when he does it. i'm telling you as soon as he comes in contact, he better kill him then. >> but charles is never murder. on september 14th, 1993, he poses for thesenotes photos in order for police to videotape the suspects and study their reacts. >> we brought them down to the police station. we separated them in two

separate rooms. we didn't really know what to expect but we knew we were going to have something worthwhile to either talk about or look at. >> you are going to be placed under arrest for solicitation for murder for hire. >> what? that's a life. i was at work. i haven't been nowhere. i go to work and come home i'm with my kids. i'm at work. that is it. that's all i do. all i do is work. >>. ma, i sympathize with you. however, we have evidence, strong evidence for us to believe otherwise. okay? >> well, i can prove that i have did nothing wrong. that is my husband. i love him. we got problems. we worked them out. me and my husband been doing fine. i haven't done anything wrong. >> and at that time, i motioned for charles to be brought in.

>> what? charles! oh! i -- >> we told charles, stick your head in there and make it very apparent that you are alive. we don't want you to talk. >> we had people around charles because we are dealing with human nature here. we didn't know how he was going to react seeing his wife knowing she paid someone to have him killed. >> you are under arrest for solicitation for murder for hire. >> i didn't -- i work. i went to the man -- he'll tell you. why do i go through something like that? i don't even have any money. >> we all do things that we're not -- >> charles took, we took -- we talked. >> she's just trying to find a way out. she says, hey, i really didn't want him dead. and she comes out and says the informant's name, that's his you

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from his cell, jason asks another inmate to help engineer the murder of his spouse, both girls, and the arresting officers. >> they had said you have to be careful that there is a dog at the residence but go ahead and make sure you dill dog also. >> i'm a huge animal lover so that actually ticked me off a little bit. >> he thought that if the family was killed and there were no witnesses for the sexual battery, that he would get off and he would no longer have to pay $20,000 to his attorney to represent him for the case. and so he would use that money to pay the inmate to commit the murders. >> jason says his parents, versie and her 60-year-old husband robert will broker the deal. but jason's fellow inmate is uneasy with the proposition. >> but the fact naje son had sexually abused the girls and now was going to go out and kill the girls, it bothered the inmate.

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>> thank you. >> he was going to carry the conversation, and pretty much just introduce me as his partner. >> do you want a cigarette? >> i got some. >> i've got a lighter. you see who the prans are in this room here. >> when the introductions went on, i saw the way she looked at me and acknowledged me. she didn't give me like a second glance or who are you? her mine was focused on what she wanted to do while she was there. at that point i knew she was going to be an easy mark. >> i'll consider myself couldn't ass but not indicate june. >> we talked about once we finished that we were pretty much going to go lay low over in louisiana. that's originally where i'm from. so it was easy for me to make up stuff are from that area. >> they had me for bank robberies. he is going to need money every month like clock work.

>> he was a good actor, everything that the inmate mentioned he made up on his own. every single bit of it. >> i went in the store, they cash payroll checks and i went in and i asked they got any guns in there. >> when he started making up the story about robbing the indian store i had to sit back and kind of look at him. it sounded legit. after we got done with the operation, i joked with the detectives that they may want to question him further about that and make sure that's something that didn't happen. i wanted to sit across the room so i could see everything she was doing but at the same time be able to allow her equipment to focus on her. i had instructed the inmate to pretty much stay up on the bed for the same reasons. >> i brought some rubber gloves. i watch tv. >> what she was doing by saying she watched crime shows and such is she wanted to let us know she

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my conscience needs to know. >> this is going to get him acquitted. there is not a doubt in my mind. >> i think she's asking for permission n my mind. >> do you want them scared or do you want them [ bleep ] dead. i know what he said, and he is talking about that there. but you are the parents -- this sounds weird but you are the parents, so i want to hear it from you. >> get them all: can you get them all. >> what about the stepmother? >> i'm the real mom. we've been married 42 years. what would you do? >> she wanted for us to say if we were in our place, you know, we would do the same thing. can't tell you what i would do i'm a totally different person than anybody else in this room. >> i know. but if this were you in this situation, what would you do? >> i personally -- i don't know. >> what we want her to say on

tape, what exactly she wants done. and that she wants her grandchildren and daughter-in-law killed. >> my sister testified against me in a bank robbery case when i took her car. when i looked at versie as she was listening to his story i could see her shaking her head. >> i would kill the bitch. >> that was in louis hussein. >> i oobt wouldn't give a [ bleep ]. i'd hurt her real bad. >> do you want everybody in the house, including the dog? yes or no? and it might be good if you all are out of town that night. >> we have to know what you want done. >> i need to check my -- >> we'll need more money, yeah. >> but investigators are still waiting to see if she'll sanction the murder.

>> i need to know where this -- are all going. i can't leave one and kill the other. >> yes. >> coming up, versie believes she is about to solve her son's problems. >> get your hands out. >> hands up. >> the investigation was bigger than what she thought. >> these your grand daumplt has one quarter of your dna, doesn't she?

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the thing that we're concerned about is i don't want you to lock at us and think that we're dirt bags. >> i don't. >> may 30th, 2006, in a tevares,

florida, hotel room, 59-year-old versie jackson offers reassuring words to the two men she thinks she is hiring to kill her granddaughter. >> i don't think you are bad. i don't think either one you are bad. people do what they have to do to survive. there is a lot of innocent people sitting in jail. >> and according to versie, her 31-year-old son jason is among the wrongly incarcerated since police in nearby month dora arrested him on charges of molesting his 10-year-old daughter and 16-year-old stepdaughter n. versie's opinion, the children, along with jason's ex-wife, are trying to frame him. >> she was looking for pretty much someone to murder the family, to get rid of the witnesses. >> behind bars, jason asks his cell mate to help. anz as soon as the inmate is released from jail, jason tells him to contact versie and put the plan into action. instead, the cell mate reports the plot to authorities. they respond by pairing him with

undercover detective, jack frost, and instructing the two to mask raid as hit men. >> i don't know if you are a cop. he doesn't know if you are a cop. i'm just saying. i'm just saying. nerve this room is nervous. >> the first thing everybody is doing when you are sitting in a room ands everybody is looking around at each other wondering who is a come. i always try to throw it back on the other person. that way it puts them on the defensive. >> i gott love him more than anything on this earth. >> i think it went past the love. the only thing she cared about was herself and her son. hence she was there trying to get everybody killed. >> my husband -- >> all of them. >> got to. because if you don't -- >> with a s.w.a.t. team waiting and poised to strike, investigators watch for versie through the lens of a hidden camera reaching into her purse for a down payment of $100. >> couldn't it.

i didn't touch it unless it was with this. >> she tells us it's towingen money. it might have been all the money she had. it could have been 20 bucks but she didn't want us to leave. >> 1 hund, come on, that will got us out of florida. >> they wanted an exchange of money. whatever money they were willing to pay we were willing to take to show they were intent on having their gran grand children and draurnl killed. >> we open up the door and we burst in the room. the idea behind it was we didn't want her to think that the inmate was providing us with information. so we went ahead and we arrested all three individuals inside the room. >> this way, this way. >> oh, oh, oh! >> it's always kind aftershock a little bit whenever they actually do a take do you. you start seeing these guns waving around.

you know that they are on your side, but you still get nervous. >> oh, oh, oh, what did i do. >> just lion your stomach for a few minutes. >> okay. >> at that point in time versie began to fake a heart attack. >> is he in jail. >> of course we get her medical attention and then begin to interview her. >> is anybody downstairs waiting for you? >> versie doesn't know that police have spotted her husband waiting outside and taken him into custody. >> i've never been in trouble. my husband has never been in trouble. he has never even been inside of a police car. never. >> well he is now. he is now. okay? do you want jason out of jail? don't you? >> answer yes or no. okay. and you are willing to kill people to get him out of jail. >> no. no. >> why are you here with $100 asking somebody to kill them? >> as you can see when i go into

the room i have a lot of emotion in my voice. it's upsetting the fact that i was raised in a family that mother, father, and brothers and sisters, we all took care of each other. and i didn't want to let versie jackson off the hook for paying somebody to kill her grandchildren. it really upset me. all right. so you wanted your family murdered. >> no, no, i don't. >> excuse me, i was in the other room, and i listened to you. >> i know. i know. >> okay? so don't lie to me. it doesn't look good. >> but i don't. >> then why would you bring money to a man in a hotel room? why would you talk about it and tell them that you want them dead?

>> scared. >> you weren't scared, lady. it was nothing -- that's nonsense. >> that's your granddaughter, isn't it? that's your biology flesh and blood. has one quarter of your dna, doesn't it. so you feel pretty bad about yourself, don't you. >> yes, i do. >> as soon as we finished taking her down and i went into the room and was actually able to watch the video and listen to the audio, i knew for a fact -- unless a meteror were to hit the earth that day that that was an automatic conviction. there was absolutely no way they were going to be able to get out of that. >> at the sheriff's office, robert jackson emphatically insists neither he nor his son are guilty of any crime. >> you wanted these kids killed, didn't you. >> i don't want them hurt at all. >> you don't want them hurt. >> i don't want them hurt. >> what about your stepdaughter. >> i want her to tell the damn truth. >> okay. >> i want her to tell the truth

because my season did not commit these crimes. >> jason was the one that cooked this whole scheme up, but he wouldn't have been able to carry it out if he had not been able to get the help from versie or from robert. >> unfortunately, you are in the parking lot with your wife when your wife is on videotape making deals with a hit man. >> making deals with a hit man. and we're recording it. we didn't come here today without some of the answers to the questions we are asking you. the reason i came in this room today is to see what kind of person you are and if you were going to be truthful with me and say, look, i made a mistake. i might have let things get out of hand and should have talked my son out of it. but things got out of hand. and this is what they were talking about, and this is what happened. and you need to start thinking about that woman sitting out there. you me to start thinking about your son that's in jail. and you need to start thinking about yourself. because this does not look good.

>> okay. >> eventually, versie jackson had the same realization. both she and robert pleaded guilty to conspiracy and solicitation to commit murder. robert was sentenced to eight years. versie, to five. >> i got bad heart. >> in 2007, she died behind bars. >> jason jackson was also convictsed in the murder for hire case and pleaded guilty to the sexual battery of the children. his scheduled release date, september 23rd, 2064. >> i want to take a picture. >> go g i've got my permission. >> after assisting authorities, the informant continues to find trouble, accumulating convictions for extortion, auto theft, and other crimes. disappointing detectives impressed with his performance in the florida hotel room. >> he plight have got an acting job. >> my gran daddy was indicate

june. >> because he is very good. d da june. >> because he is very good. i cannot believe i really was in colombia. i'm only 18. i wasn't even thinking about you're going smuggle drugs. i'm going literally have it in my bra and in my underwear. >> get me out of here! >> i realized i was set up. so now i'm suspicious of everybody.