. >> she walks in the graunl, steps over her dead husband, kisses shapell, tells him to get a tarp andcleaning the scene. >> so now they're pointing at each other over who planned the murder. and the da? he believes steve. he offered him a lesser charge to testify against morgan and charged morgan with premeditated mush der. >> i think she found the most gullible person she could. she used him as a pawn to do her action. >> you think morgan was in charge of this operation. >> 100% i believe that. morgan had a way with men. she just did. she had a way with men. and i think the seam way that she had my brother, you know, under her spell, she had this kid as well. >> and the da says it was morgan herself sending those fake text messages to kevin's family. not steve. >> she's texting kevin's family, assuring them that he's okay. he just wants to be left alone. she's the most evil woman i've dealt with. >> morgan mengle went on trial in late january 2012, a year and a half after kevin had been murdered. but in addition to steve shapell waiting in the wings to testify, the da had something e