news4's erika gonzalez has more from the twin brook metro station in rockville. >> reporter: a montgomery county jury has found 50-year-old daniel mendoza guilty of solicitation of first-degree murder. in march of 2012, mendoza offered what he thought were two hitmen $200 and his car title to have his estranged wife and her lover killed. the men were really undercover, one an informant, the other a cop. what you're about to hear is an audio recording in spanish of mendoza talking to the alleged hitmen. he tells the men i just don't want you to leave her alive. the montgomery county state's attorneys office says mendoza went as far as bringing the alleged hitmen to the twinbrook metro station where he knew his wife would be. >> he said there she is. that's her. he showed them exactly who to kill. >> reporter: mendoza points out his wife. tells the men to make it look like a robbery. that's where you can shooter, he says. and then take her purse. mendoza is later apprehended without any harm ever coming to his estranged wife or her lover. >> erika gonzalez reporting. mendoza is facing life

we begin our news coverage with erika gonzalez. she is live outside alexandria police headquarters. erica? >> reporter: hey, doreen. with today's new developments, what this does is it shifts the focus, no longer placed on the most recent incident, but highlights all three. ten years ago, nancy dunning, the wife of a then sheriff murdered in her home. >> friends of nancy done having set up reward fund to encourage people to call in with tips. >> reporter: last november, transportation planner ron kirby gunned down. >> detectives are still inside the home where ron kirby was found shot to death. >> reporter: and just last month, music teacher ruthanne lodato shot and killed when answering her front door on ridge road drive. >> moments ago the alexandria police chief confirmed some very grim news. now police have evidence that could connect all three. detectives are investigating them as a, quote, series of murders. but today the police chief avoided any reference to a serial killer. >> the bullets in ruthanne lodato, ron kirby, and nancy dunning cases have the same general rifling cl

i'm erika gonzalez. i'll have that story coming up. >>> and a noble service in bitter cold and blowing snow at arlington national cemetery.

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