M. Gessen

It was sitting in the courtroom, listening to the wire recordings, that I realized...

By the time of that birthday party, Alan had already had his second meeting with David, the undercover agent.

It had probably happened during the same trip to New York.

And two weeks after that birthday party, Alan sent David a Target package.

Priscilla's address, the license plate of her car, the name and location of the man she was then seeing, with comments like, when children are with ex-husband, subject stays at her boyfriend's house in Cambridge.

When without children, subject goes out.

Over the next two weeks, texting over signal, Alan and David finalized the date of the planned hit.

They discussed the importance of a solid alibi.

Alan would be out of town with the kids.

I knew where that was.

At my father's house on Cape Cod.

Then David texted this.

One quick question.

If there are any guests present, do you have any problem with showing them the exit?

My guys said we need to plan for extra guests at the show.

In court, the undercover agent explained what that meant.

I was asking Mr. Gessen if there was anybody with his ex-wife at the time we were going to conduct the killing, would he have any problem with us killing that person as well?

Alan responded, I am absolutely ambivalent to the modalities and circumstances as long as we achieve project objectives.

Additional unexpected expenses are part of doing business.

This message would be quoted over and over again during the trial, so I'm going to repeat it too.