course of cultivating his source, detective price has even met the young woman's mother, phyllis crowell. then, in november, 1992, the daughter tells price the mother is making inquiries about hiring a hit man. >> she decided a, she didn't want to see her mother murder her stepfather, and b, didn't want her mother to go to prison for murder. >> but price launches an investigation and contacts the atf about helping the police set up a sting. >> our vice unit at the time in 1992, there was just nothing. there was no technology. so we utilized the atf technology, which at that time was top of the line, top notch. >> phyllis' daughter gives her mother a phone number for cj hyman, describing him as a willing assassin. >> today if i were about to hire a hit person, you can go online, run that person, you can see what have they been arrested for. if you been in prison for murder, chances are, you've done it before, you'll do it again. in '92, you had to take people at their word. there was not access to the internet. you would literally have to walk into a courthouse and look up cj's informatio