Alan Johnson

Assistant State Attorney Al Johnson.

What were the instructions?

Get me somebody to kill my ex-wife.

Ron, did you hire these men to kill your ex-wife?

Troy, I'm from Brooklyn, New York.

If I wanted to pay somebody to do this,

I'd have gone to New York and the professionals would have come there and no, I didn't wanna do that.

And no, I did not pay anybody.

Ronald Samuels was the puppet master.

But could this bizarre conspiracy story hold up in court?

Investigators had no direct evidence linking Samuels to the crime, but they believed he had a powerful motive, the costly custody fight that could see him lose his children, a fight Samuels was determined to win.

Look, it's my clone.

Say hi, Papa, I'm the clone.

Hi, Papa, I'm the clone.

What do the children mean to you?

I was willing to swap my life for theirs.

And he was willing to put his children right in the middle of the fight.

To document his claims that John Grossman was abusing the children, he had them examined by a psychologist.

Little Ronnie was just six years old when he accused John Grossman and Heather's parents of harming him.

Very serious.