Keith Morrison

Her husband had actually wanted her dead.

Did he still?

Had he hired someone else?

Someone who might be out there beyond the window, watching, waiting for a clean shot?

Oh, there was plenty of fear.

Remember Sammy Yenawine, the original assassin contracted to kill Nancy?

Two months after being brought to South Carolina to stand trial, he was found hanging in his jail cell.

Had Sammy lived, he might have named names, might have cinched the case for prosecutors, but no, he'd taken those secrets to the grave.

Though some did wonder if Sammy's death had really been a suicide.

Sammy's wingman, Aaron Wilkinson, said he never doubted it.

I knew that he killed himself.

Through all of this, Chris Latham remained a free man.

The agents had collected plenty of circumstantial evidence implicating him, but prosecutors were reluctant to greenlight an arrest.

That's the voice of Bill Nettles, the U.S.

attorney for South Carolina at the time.

It was his office that would have to prosecute the case.

Nope.

The U.S.

attorney wanted to take his time, cross the T's, dot the I's, and so on.

It was a gamble, of course.