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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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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.