Rachel Shannon
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But as things progressed with their surveillance and after multiple failed attempts at communicating with Will and Holly, the group turned to murder.
Eric and Gilad agreed to the terms initially, then sent Adam and Brian out to get it done.
The prosecutions brought forward the cell phone data, which showed all the encrypted text exchanges between the men in the days leading to the murders
as well as location data which showed all four of them together before the three ultimately went to Nashville to do their surveillance.
They found that intelligence report that was written up on the couple.
They pointed to bank transactions which showed Eric paying all three men a total of $1 million over the course of this whole thing.
They showed the security cameras from Holly's apartment which showed the previous times these men went to her place as well as the day of the murder.
where you hear Will being shot and Holly screaming as she's being taken away.
The prosecution was arguing that on the day of the murders, it was Brian who shot Will in the apartment parking lot before he drove the Acura with Will's body in it.
Adam then put Holly into that rental car before driving them both to the construction site.
There, Adam killed Holly, then put her body into her own car and staged the scene to make it look like a crash.
Then at the trial, Gilad testified and told the courts everything that happened.
He spoke about everything that I've told you up to this point from how he got connected with Eric, to how they got the team together, to how they ended up deciding on killing Will and Holly.
His testimony was crucial in putting all of this together.
and painting a clear picture of the timeline and everything that happened.
On the other hand, the defense for Adam and Brian basically pointed the finger at each other as being responsible for the murders.
Meanwhile, Eric's defense basically said that he didn't know there was a plan to kill them.
He never agreed to killing Holly and Will.
The people he hired to do the surveillance went rogue.
His defense said that Eric never intended for anybody to be hurt or killed.