and alex pabón. so did alex pabón.putation is well-deserved. there's families that have been here for generations. then there's also the drug kingpins that discover that they can hide in here and walk out of here. so they don't allow any robberies. they don't allow anything going on here that's not supposed to go on. they protect the tourists in that way. they protect the tourists. they protect themselves. they keep the tourism going in the island and avoid the cops coming in after them. narrator: that criminal element was not happy with the heat alex pabón had brought into la perla. la perla is a little bit of a self-policing area. and you know, obviously, like, alex pabón was no longer welcome there. and they had told him to leave, or else they probably would have killed him himself, for allowing, you know, an innocent man to be charged with a crime that he committed. so he was pretty much in hiding. narrator: pabón had left la perla, but not san juan. and in april 2008, the fbi tracked him down. what story did alex

the fbi had tracked down the man believed to be his real killer, alex "el loco" pabón.pabón not only confessed, but also said that adam's wife, urea, had offered him $3 million to kill her husband. but urea wasn't the only person pabón implicated in the conspiracy, according to fbi special agent, devin kowalski. he had a series of meetings with urea, her sister, marcia, her sister's then boyfriend, josé ferrer, in the lead up to the murder. narrator: urea, her sister, her sister's boyfriend all allegedly in on the plot to kill adam. pabón, an admitted drug dealer, said he often did business at pink skirt, urea's bar, where marcia and pabón both worked. pabón said it was there, that the trio first approached him. they had met before to discuss beating adam up. narrator: throughout the investigation, the fbi worked with the united states attorney's office in san juan. josé ruiz-santiago and jennifer hernandez vega are assistant us attorneys there. two days before the murder, they decide that adam has to be killed. narrator: pabón also gave investigators his version of how