Who Hired the Hitman Season 1 Episode 1

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00:00a lot of things look very strange in all this

00:27you don't kill people over a damn truck what stands out to me about this case is just the

00:34number of people that were involved you've got the old man tina was the maid which is ironic

00:43because she was a mess the wash is the barman sister who turns out to be a daughter and it's

00:51almost like watching a clue movie it's just a tangled web i'm telling you and i'm telling you

00:58that's bullshit that's what i'm telling you so the police already knew who the killer was

01:03but they still had one more question

01:05as this case and investigation starts we didn't know it was a murder for hire case

01:30but i show up with the mindset of i'm going to start from zero and see where that takes me

01:37the 9-1-1 call came from loretta let's roll she was in her early 70s

01:45now boys what'd you say i just came at my church and my husband's laying in the floor i think he's dead

01:51loretta goes to church that morning loretta's husband ernest stays home but when she comes

01:59on from church she found her husband uh laying bloody on the floor

02:04the scene where this had taken place where the luttrells live is probably a mile from where i grew

02:17up as a child my entire life i would drive past it for 30 years

02:22but now it was a horrific scene actually it could shake you badly you walk into the house

02:30and in the kitchen mr luttrell is laying down he was 73 years old he had multiple gunshot wounds

02:41to his upper torso head area there was no shell casings at the scene there was no force entry at all in this house

02:49i didn't see anything like there was a struggle so that's what you have to work with

02:56this is a very small area most everybody knows everybody one of the first things you're going to do

03:04you want to talk to the witnesses to learn who the victim was

03:09i've known ernest my entire life ernest was like an uncle and loretta was like an aunt ernest

03:26he was bigger than life boy ernest walked in a store everybody knew ernest walked in

03:33he was gonna make sure everybody knew he was there i am a retired army veteran and the commander of

03:40the american legion post here i met ernest luttrell because he was a friend of my uncle i would have

03:46been in grade school when i first met him really friendly man uh jovial i also knew him because they

03:52frequented the american legion post and ernest was a military vet he was an army paratrooper in the korean

03:58war being a paratrooper is really tough you know not everybody can do that you're jumping out of

04:03a perfectly good airplane and all you're attached to is a cord and your chute opens and that'd be

04:09like skydiving here but in ernest's case it was over a war zone and then he worked at the auto dealership

04:16with my mom and then eventually he went to work for board and milk and he worked for them for a long time

04:22eventually wound up retiring from them and then he worked at the farm my wife and i moved here in 1980

04:33when i first met ernest he had paid that he was hanging he was kind of domineering i just felt like

04:41that he was used to having things his way and that was the way it was going to be but up from the time

04:49when i first met him and the time that he got killed ernest and i became closer we were beginning

04:57to develop a camaraderie i i admired him and respected him because i knew he was a hard-working man

05:05and he was a self-made man everybody knew ernest and loretta they were together for you know 50 plus

05:14years they had one child katie she lived in texas katie was very smart had all these degrees and

05:23everything he was doing well when you first heard that ernest was murdered what thoughts did you have

05:33well i'm going to relate a little incident that took place just before his murder

05:39ernest was having a rough go he looked like he had seen better days i asked well ernest i said let me

05:49pray for you he said oh no i don't want you to do that he says you know he says i don't believe that

05:57anymore i said well you can believe i said all you got to do is have faith i said have faith he said i

06:05appreciate you but he said i just don't want to do that two days later he was killed dead

06:12it bothered me it still bothers me it was just sad it wasn't necessary

06:33it wasn't necessary

06:34csi did the search and there was treads from like a pattern of a boot but it was something that

06:47we knew wasn't ours and it wasn't mr luttrell's obviously a work type boot something that would

06:55normally be associated with a man then we see is there anything missing from the house they noticed

07:01there was guns missing as well some long guns from the gun cabinet was there a robbery this

07:07was someone after his guns at some point noticed his truck was missing he drove a one-tone flatbed

07:17truck it didn't have a regular pickup bed on it it had one of these utility flatbeds on the back of it

07:23where's ernest's truck everybody knows ernest everybody knows what ernest drives any car that passes by

07:29we were stopping them and seeing if they saw anything it was uh sunday we my family we get up

07:38go to church and i noticed mr luttrell had a new truck but on the morning that i was going to church i

07:44noticed that truck wasn't in his driveway and that was around nine o'clock miss luttrell goes to church

07:52at 8 30 in the morning anywhere from 8 30 to 9 o'clock we think that's probably when it happened

08:00there's a pretty tight time frame of when this occurred but that's one assumption you're making

08:05that ernest was murdered when you were it wasn't there yeah that that is our assumption

08:14miss luttrell would never do this just look at her she's so innocent and sweet and fragile don't

08:19don't forget fragile right over here you want to call you loretta or oh gosh loretta was barely maybe

08:29five foot tall and 80 pounds soaking wet she was tiny she was 70 years old she's just a sweet little lady

08:38loretta looked like your grandma who would knit you an afghan for christmas very quiet very mousy

08:46whenever ernest and i were together she would always stand off in the background and never

08:54really engage in a conversation ernest was good to loretta

08:59sometimes ernest could be rough and gruff and and what have you but she always drove a cad lap

09:06you know he buy her fur coat he built that house for loretta it's a beautiful log house was the house

09:13that she dreamed of at the american legion you would see him at the friday night dances he would

09:19dance with his wife loretta they were happy when the detectives arrived at the scene the first thing

09:25they did was talk to miss luttrell i don't know if this goes on tv but she goes to church with my mother

09:33my mom did share with me that loretta was at church that morning and she remembers her being there

09:39ernest was not a church-going man so she left him in bed on sunday mornings to go to church

09:45but on this sunday she arrived at church early about an hour before church even started

09:55which all this was unusual because you were lucky if loretta even arrived anywhere on time

10:01oh is there anybody you can think of that may be mad at ernest loretta is supplying us information

10:08early on but she was suffering from early signs of dementia forgetting things this is when it really

10:14gets interesting they're at the luttrell property there's a trailer house that's located behind the

10:19main residence when i say a trailer it's not like it was a really nice trailer it was a old rundown

10:27trailer and the caretaker lived there was a male and a female ernest farmhand's name was chris tope

10:40he was just a kind of a scruffy little wiry guy the old saying goes is he was rode hard and put up wit

10:49ernest gave him place to stay to help him with his chores that he had out there

10:55chris tope's girlfriend was tina van marker q i would have called it van moorker q is how it's pronounced

11:04van marker q i'm not sure i just knew tina tina and chris how do you pronounce the last name van

11:11marky van marky tina was the maid which is ironic because she was a mess

11:19she was 44 years old but she looked much older miss loretta i want for her to clean her house i'll

11:27take her anywhere she needs to i'm like a predominantly lacquer caretaker now was she hired as

11:34the maid originally probably not i think she just took that role on for herself

11:39tina had open access to the luttrell's house chris claims that he was there on the property but he

11:48had slept in and wasn't really aware of what had taken place that trailer was right behind the house

11:57there's no way that he did not hear that gun going off there's no way now i can tell you some things

12:06some hearsay things that i'd heard about tina and chris well i had heard that tina had taken

12:14loretta's credit card and used it for some personal expenses

12:19it was a few months before it happened and ernest wasn't happy about it and he made a report with the

12:25cattle paris sheriff's office there was a report that was a thousand dollars what'd you get

12:36from miss loretta going with her drinking bank he wanted to fire wanted to get rid of her

12:42and loretta did wanting to and i think that's kind of where the whole

12:48bomb went off at

12:51ernest wanted them off the property and they didn't want to go

13:04i believe that the farmhand and the maid all were in on it

13:17they had to take me in because i had they thought i was a suspect

13:34i told him i didn't hear anything because i was far away i was had acs running in my place and

13:52that produced a lot of noise too i do think that it would be possible for somebody who lived close by

14:00that you would not know necessarily that had taken place and you say yeah you know i did hear something

14:07that caught my attention but i certainly didn't think it was a gunshot and there was no connection

14:12with chris toke to the boot print that was found at the scene the next morning i went back just so

14:19i had some dr pinkers at family dollar store tina had claimed she was at a nearby dollar store maybe

14:26a quarter mile of that away from the house okay what time is that i don't know i got the ticket in

14:32my car yeah with the stamp on it i don't buy that because she went to that particular dollar store

14:40because she wanted to be certain that she had a receipt so she could say look i wasn't at the house

14:45i i don't know what happened at this point there's no evidence latent prints dna any other physical

14:53evidence that you could possibly link chris and his girlfriend tina van marcoq in the murder of ernest

14:59luttrell ernest was a good man um he was like a dad to me he helped me a lot by giving me a place to stay

15:09i really and also i've been blaming myself because i was dead if i didn't oversleep if the things

15:20would have worked out differently or what after the murder i ended up losing my place i lost everything after that

15:29monday after the murder the detectives still didn't have a firm suspect we got a shoe print

15:42we got no casings we know now okay we got a car missing so what's our next step what are we going

15:48to do look we got to find this car find the truck while we were looking for the truck we brought

15:55miss luttrell back to our house to see if anything was missing she walks her really slow she gets

16:01on the porch and i'm walking her so gently into the house and when that door shuts where nobody can

16:08see she shugs me off and walks normal it's like you know jesus healed her you know so here she is

16:16just walking great again we go back and there's a safe in the house

16:24she opens the safe she is counting the money we get to 4 000 and something and she says 3 000

16:35and i'm like no you messed up there was another thousand she said i missed out or something like

16:41that which meant absolutely nothing to us at the time you know meanwhile the sheriff's office received

16:49a call from a young lady that saw or claims that she had seen ernest truck there were some guns in

16:55the truck and told us who was driving the truck a boy named eric

17:00eric crane was oh i would say two-time loser but it was like a hundred-time loser uh couldn't hold a job i

17:12know that he was just an unemployed blue-collar worker he worked for a mechanic body shop guy until

17:20he lost his job probably a week or so before the murder we looked him up and he had prior run-ins

17:27with the law dope and and maybe uh drinking and driving but nothing like homicides or nothing bad

17:36i mean nothing just violent eric lived in a travel trailer near the airport

17:44and we go there it's dark there's no white truck there they knocked on the door several times nobody

17:50would answer i thought i saw the door of this trailer open and then shut they knew someone was

17:56in there so they called the swat team they knocked again and told whoever was inside to come out no one

18:03comes to the door so they shot tear gas into the travel truck within seconds a sleepy eric crane came

18:12out coughing and choking from the cs gas screaming what's going on and the uh swat team did their

18:19magic and took him into custody first off man i asked what the hell is this about we're gonna

18:25we're gonna cover that aren't we at the time we get a call that the truck has been located

18:31at oilfield site down the street

18:36was during the inspection of the truck that there was fingerprint information that connected

18:43eric crane to that vehicle you work on sundays sometimes i'll have to work

18:49for about approximately about 7 45 i worked until about three eric gave an alibi during his interview

18:58but eric's alibi had problems he no longer worked at the body shop

19:03i don't see how jimmy cried me when i just seen the man yesterday jimmy said it he did not work for me

19:09saturday when detective scoggins was interviewing eric he noticed that it looked like he had blood on his

19:18boots later it was determined that his footwear matched the print that was left at the luttrell's

19:31residence and it come back later from the lab is earnest blood

19:38we got information from a friend of eric crane who knew the whereabouts of the possible murder weapon

19:53at an abandoned house near a little shed in the backyard and we did dig up and find a large caliber

20:00handgun he'd be arrested today first screen murder first screen murder i didn't even shook no body

20:09after they booked him the local news station went and talked to his former boss jimmy sabbath

20:15they interviewed him on camera and while mr sabbath was talking to the reporter the phone rang

20:23hello you have a free call from and hey eric and he put it his phone on speaker phones and now jimmy

20:33is like oh yeah just tell me tell me man tell the truth did you kill him or what yeah i killed him

20:39and we're like what oh my god i heard that i heard that on the daggum news and i'm thinking you gotta be

20:48kidding me this guy's a goofball we have no doubt that eric was the killer eric had the truck he had

20:58earnest blood on his boots but that doesn't make sense to me you don't kill people over a damn truck

21:09no if the killer left with a vehicle that would pretty much mean that either he was already there

21:16or somebody dropped him off

21:24were there other people involved was there a conspiracy to hire a hitman

21:29according to chris tina's boyfriend she was not home the night before and it was arguing all night

21:47i don't remember about what but i told her just go ahead and leave

21:51you she goes to a hotel and so now it's we need tina we got to talk interviews again

22:00tina we want to ask you some more questions on that wednesday morning about nine o'clock

22:06i went into the interview room to speak to tina the question is not is tina involved in this tina

22:15is smack dab involved in this the question is how deep is tina involved in this was at that point that

22:22she shares that been knowing eric for years she knew eric because he dated my older sister she had

22:33recently ran into him it was at mcdonald's she saw him i looked him in the old man exchanged phone

22:39numbers and later she goes to a hotel and there's also video surveillance that puts her at this particular

22:49hotel but someone is also captured on video there when we see eric crane at your room

23:04what's he doing at your hotel room

23:06did you send an attorney sex

23:11no i did not know that no

23:14my goodness okay she told me that she spent the night with eric crane on saturday the night before

23:26ernest's murder and she admitted to bringing eric to ernest's house on the morning of the murder i

23:35dropped him off on walker road no leaving the motel room yes but she claimed she just dropped him off

23:43close by and i did not know if he was still to kill mr lefto i do not i don't believe that i believe

23:51that they were behind it she said she went to her house and while she was there she heard some gunshots

23:59what did you do when you heard the shots what did you think when you heard those dead gunshots

24:02i didn't know what the thing because see there's a fire range up front there's a lot of people

24:07fired up there there's not a shooting range out there where's the shooting range i'm telling you

24:15and i'm telling you that's bullshit that's what i'm telling you yes ma'am he was looking for the

24:21person who possibly killed him we're stopping cars traveling down the road and you not one time says

24:28this guy arrives up here with me we could have ended this a long time ago but you didn't do it for some

24:33reason when i tried to to push a little further there she stopped and looked at me and she said

24:41can i smoke a cigarette or no and i did something that i don't usually do but i said okay tina let's

24:47take a break so we went outside and she took a deep draw on her first cigarette

24:56and i continued to ask her questions and finally it came down to who set this up but she didn't talk

25:08she would just shake her head yes or no in the process of these questions i said was it a man and she

25:18shook her head no so i named every female that i could come up with that was involved in the case

25:29and she just shook her head shook her head and finally

25:36i came to loretta and she shook her head yes

25:40tina after her bout her third cigarette she sat down on the stairs out there and then told me the

25:51whole story

25:55so several years ago in treeport bosier area okay i was called the shell money all came in

26:00haynesville shell yes that was the name

26:04haynesville shell was a big natural gas reservoir under the ground they found a very large deposit

26:13in northwest louisiana it's a new drilling technique and around this time mineral companies were running

26:19around snatching up mineral leases all over the place and they were paying a lot of money for it

26:24lease of mineral rights went up to 25 000 an acre and you had farmers which overnight became millionaires

26:31they got a pretty good little chunk of change well they call mailbox money you wait on your mail once

26:37a month to get your check lord i i enjoy going to my mailbox to this day and i don't have very much

26:44but ernest was smart they wind up putting several wells on this land that's a lot of money now there's

26:52a difference between selling your mineral rights and leasing your millenial rights he had leased his

26:58mineral rights but then i was standing outside talking to him one day and he told me that because

27:05of his age that he decided to go ahead and sell his mineral rights outright and go ahead and get his

27:11money now for it you just get one lump sum and you get a bigger chunk money

27:15when i interviewed tina what she told me was that two months before the murder loretta had a daughter

27:29that lived in texas name was katie passanetti and katie had a daughter and she was going to graduate

27:39school loretta had said that ernest had agreed to pay for it out of the oil money

27:46i had heard is what i'm gonna say i heard that ernest said no i why would i promise that

27:56and you know ernest got mad and got bullheaded with loretta

28:01loretta started asking him in graduate school it was very expensive by the way

28:09and ernest got tired of loretta badgering him about this and he said just send her a thousand dollars

28:19was loretta angry extremely angry what about katie fairy

28:25that's what set the ball in motion loretta was obsessed with getting the inheritance and she asked

28:36tina can you find someone to kill ernest for a thousand dollars

28:44when we heard that we're going that's why she miscounted at this house that's why she wanted

28:51this thousand dollars to pay for her hitman if you're hiring a hitman eric crane is not the one

28:59you want to pick you probably need to spend a little bit more money at that time eric had not yet

29:07been paid now we set up a phone call between tina van morkeku and loretta luttrell hello loretta

29:17uh-huh this is me yeah and tell her that eric needs his money eric the man you know shot ernest for

29:29you many yeah to get out on bond about an hour ago and he called me and looking for a thousand dollars

29:37so he can get out of time when do you think i can get some money and she said i'd like to get to

29:44you i don't have no way with the two she says it oh i'll get the money that i owe him and i'm gonna

29:50tell you everything we thought about her poor poor poor it completely leaves us and we're going

29:58that evil bitch that's just evil and i don't know what to do she could you talk to me and say

30:07anything about me this phone call led me to believe that loretta is aware of what has taken place

30:15we wanted to arrest her but what if we were wrong

30:23so you chip away at their story we looked into loretta's background and it was shocking the first

30:31revelation is that they weren't married at all i never did see a marriage certificate or proof that

30:39they were legally married i was shocked i don't know if my mom and dad ever knew that

30:51because at that point we got a search warrant for the luttrell's home phone and we learned when loretta

30:58had returned home from church the day or the murder rather than calling 9-1-1 she calls tina

31:06we had a murder warrant for loretta luttrell right before earnest funeral

31:12it became a shock to the

31:42members of the legion when a veteran passes away we'll be the one that places the flag upon the

31:47casket then it's handed to the wife and that's why it's so confusing to us how that loretta had been

31:54arrested

31:57i actually asked loretta to come with us to the office for interview i've seen right here i told

32:03her i said it was tina that talked to you yesterday again i was right here listening to it

32:08well if somebody calls me and asked me that the man that killed my wife is looking for the money i

32:12owe him do you think i'm going to respond while i don't have it to pay him right now well i wasn't

32:17going to sit and argue with her because i will sit and argue with her when she's telling you

32:21no that the man who who you you wanted to kill your husband wants to get paid

32:26i wasn't going to sit and argue with her and that's not an argument that's not an arguable situation

32:31i said i don't know what the hell you're talking about

32:34or okay i'll pay you as soon as i can and and that's pretty much what you said i was like

32:37sitting under there and dying saying that because i wouldn't kill my husband i loved him too much

32:43we were certain at this point that she too had involvement in this scheme to kill ernest luttrell

32:52but the case is not closed after that the story just began to grow and and grow and more and more

32:59people it seemed were intimately involved

33:04katie passanetti who is loretta luttrell's daughter came by the office to see me to tell

33:09me her mother had been charged with murder and so katie was trying to hire me to represent her mother

33:15the sheriff's department the da's office well they're basically trying to portray loretta as

33:19this evil mastermind like something like you see off tv but meeting loretta you can tell i saw no way

33:25at all she could possibly some sort of mastermind behind all this she'd been diagnosed by her

33:30doctors in writing with actually having early onset dementia as a matter of fact a few points

33:34she actually asked me where her husband was which is kind of sad you know she's asking about the

33:38husband she's supposed to have killed because she thinks he's alive she had very little understanding

33:43of why she was even there i dealt with dementia patients before and a lot of times they'll nod they'll

33:50say yes if you ask one question they don't want to appear that they don't understand you there were

33:55no eyewitnesses to say that loretta came into the house that she pulled the trigger she had a gun

34:00because there's nothing really tying her to this beyond the possible testimony of the housekeeper

34:05saying well this is what took place and why would you leave a housekeeper who clearly was involved

34:11but then several months after i began representing her mother hearing other suspects involved and then

34:16something else takes place ernest and loretta supposedly they had a daughter i did find out

34:24later that it wasn't his daughter

34:30now i can tell you some things about his daughter katie she never lived with ernest and loretta so i did

34:35find out later that it wasn't his daughter that it was loretta's daughter that's a story in itself

34:46so loretta was very young 15 maybe 16 when she had katie but i remember katie being loretta's sister

34:57and that katie had found out when she was in her late teens maybe in her 20s that loretta was not her

35:05sister that loretta was her mother because katie was raised by loretta's mother it was a big secret

35:12that loretta held very close to her chest katie had moved on went to college katie was very smart

35:19doing very well and was working but loretta would talk about katie but ernest really didn't talk about katie

35:29ernest was his own man

35:33one day when he told me that he had sold his mineral rights outright he said my daughter

35:40told me that i was stupid i should have never done that he said that pissed me off it ain't none of her

35:49business what i do it made him mad point that he took her out of his will and that his daughter was

35:57not going to get anything now he did tell me that

36:00after the arrest of the three tina loretta and eric the da's office later uncovered that ernest had a

36:14will which left everything to katie and to her daughter and i was like well that sounds suspicious

36:22now did katie have anything to do with the murder of ernest and ernest had apparently made

36:27some promises that he was going to help take care of the granddaughter and apparently later on he

36:32reneged on his promise which is one of the reasons the prosecution police thought may have given katie

36:37a reason to orchestrate all this the police and the da approached the notary who signed off on this

36:43ernest wasn't there the notary had fraudulently signed off on the document this that we're referring

36:49to is entitled last oil and testament of ernest which right when is the first time you ever laid

36:55eyes on this document first time i saw it was after the second i realized the document says july 1st

37:02so it wasn't executed on the date that the will shows well when you first saw this document

37:08ernest latrell was already on there i heard the problem is on all three pages katie told me that

37:15on his son is you didn't say yard so you have this signed three months after the man's dead

37:22yes this was a forged document

37:27katie claimed that on his sister was trying to take everything and she said that she has no access to

37:35first to pay to help her mother the notary was in a lot of trouble and i see a lot of trouble she

37:42wasn't getting her hands left of course when the police and the da approach with you're about to

37:46get criminally prosecuted telling you the truth about this will keep me from being arrested she

37:51was more than forthcoming to explain exactly what took place katie put her up to this and that in no

37:58time did ernest ever agree to any of this well now that was a surprise to me when i found out about the

38:08daughter well the evil genius in this case is katie passanetti i don't think that loretta by herself

38:18really cared about having a lot of money or taking all of earnest money for her sake but in my opinion

38:26you know loretta's motive there was to make amends to her daughter katie felt like that money was due to her

38:34because her mother abandoned her she's paying penance for ignoring a daughter that she didn't raise herself

38:41so katie of course maintained her innocence on the case but in the end the jury actually came back

38:57and found her guilty you know i was looking very forward to going to trial with loretta letting the

39:07jury see what i had seen that she had nothing to do with the death of her husband unfortunately

39:12weren't able to actually do the trial because of her untimely demise loretta unfortunately died in

39:19custody she succumbed to her mental and physical conditions and passed away there's no doubt who

39:28killed ernest but we'll never know what loretta's involvement is she was never convicted i prayed that

39:38ernest never found out that if loretta was behind it or had something to do with it

39:45you know that makes me sad he did love her he loved her and you know i just

39:59i don't think we'll ever get the whole truth i think we'll ever know what happened for sure

40:07but i know the love of money is the root of all evil so i believe that it all revolved around

40:17money and a good man

40:20was murdered over it

40:32go go go get out get out why did they want to kill him you think that i killed somebody

40:38you get a hood on yes and a mask it's all over the country there's a homicide over at the mcdonald's

40:44yes he's dead that's what it comes down to a broken chamber bale

40:50he had the nickname nine the witch doctor and the witch doctor that was his chicken batting name

40:59everybody else is quite the favorite you i thought it was the gold everyone's a person of interest

41:06if there was an intended target why take two more a lot of stuff can be hush-hush sometimes in a small

41:13town it wasn't a heck of a lot of money to take three lives we're being placed under arrest for

41:19murder my back to who like adam who pulled the trigger i didn't know it recognize this person

41:25who set it up who set it up who is pulling the strings here she's the one who made that happen

41:39you

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