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Cops: Hit man hired to kill ex-girlfriend
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Minnesota police thwart deadly plot
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- Date May 2, 2012
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He is in eagle media Pike County sheriff Robin Cole has plenty of adjectives to describe Jesse Ericsson.
None of -- good he's a creepy cat that's the best way to describe this guard investigators say it all began -- -- casino parking lot last week with a terrible gamble.
Ericsson asking a -- to kill -- ex girlfriend.
That friend told police who then laid a trap on three occasions last week Erickson came to this parking lot of this liquor store here -- Hinckley.
-- met with the alleged hit man.
Who was really an undercover agent for the BCA.
Those conversations recorded on audio and video.
And in -- Ericsson allegedly waivers between whether he wants to have his ex girlfriend killed.
-- kept in his basement.
As a sex life.
He had it detailed plan of exactly what he wanted -- to this woman and it was its its its its perversion.
Is the best way to describe it and he rolled all the stuff -- -- you remember giving him a down payment of a hundred.
-- stores surprise -- was actually willing to talk to us from jail in a very noisy visiting room -- Erickson says he remembers meeting the hit man but not giving them a hundred bucks down payment.
We're telling the hit man he was planning -- selling his ex girlfriend's house and cashing out her IRA and 401K.
You seem to have a selective memory capacity.
Something if you seem to remember and some things you doubtful yeah.
-- Do you think you're okay and I had just seen in the last night.
Her or -- Erickson said he was on -- it in a drinking a case of beer a day a clerk at the liquor store tells us he's a regular all right.
Old -- didn't look at the -- the sheriff says Erickson has other ex girlfriends and the relationships all in the same.
In restraining orders and threats but this acts may have been his last -- nothing.