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But of course, Holly did not believe him.

And on the other side of this, these men who confronted Will, they now had the impression that Will was not willing to speak with them.

They felt that they needed to take a more drastic approach.

But after four days of surveilling them, they were getting no closer to getting the problem solved.

By that point, the third unnamed man left the trio and returned to Austin saying that he had another job to get to.

Then by the evening of March 11th, 2020, Eric received a call on his landline.

The call was from an unknown number and the voice on the other end demanded his payment of $25,000 by 8 p.m.

that night or else he'd tell Sherry everything.

This sent Eric into full-blown panic mode.

At that point, Gilad was back in Austin after their failed surveillance attempt.

Eric decided that night to meet up with Gilad where they discussed their next steps.

According to investigators, it was this night when Gilad brought up the idea of killing both Will and Holly and Eric jumped at the idea.

Without hesitation, he agreed to it.

Gilad discussed a price of $750,000 total for the hit, which Eric agreed to.

I do want to note that as I said earlier, Gilad determined that Holly was not involved in the blackmail, yet he ultimately decided that both of them needed to be taken out.

We don't exactly know why, but it was that night when this decision was made.

From there, Brian, who again was the man who connected Gilad with Adam, decided to get out there and join in on the mission.

By the evening of March 11th, Brian flew out to Austin from Nashville, picked up a rental car and then met up with Adam.

By the evening of March 12th, the security cameras at Holly's apartment capture her and Will leaving her unit for the last time.

Earlier in that surveillance stint, the men had actually moved the camera so that it wouldn't be facing the parking lot