chris latham is an impressive guy.he -- >> reporter: a member of society, yeah? >> yeah, he's a pillar of the community. and i think one challenge we had as prosecutors, was to convince a jury why such a distinguished and successful person would commit this crime. >> reporter: but motive? clear as day. the prosecutors told the jury, chris in fact had a lot to lose in his divorce, like reputation, when people found out he'd been living in sin with wendy. >> it's going to come out that he's cheating with his secretary on his wife. >> reporter: and there was money at stake. buckets of money. >> i mean, there's so much evidence that he faced exposure in alimony. $75,000 a year in alimony, forever. >> reporter: prosecutors told the jury that chris was involved every step of way. in fact eight of the 11 pages in the hit pack could be linked to chris latham's phone, computer or print and after the plot was exposed, chris arranged payments, through other family members, not just for wendy's defense lawyer, for sam yenowine's l