The Man with Two Names | Full Episode | Forensic Files

♪♪ -Jon Green does what Jon Green does, right? He's a charmer. He's a smooth talker.
I think he could talk his way into anyone's life. Beneath the surface, there's something really dark.
-Is this a man who just happens to have really bad luck? Or is he a bad guy? -He's a bad guy.
-We had good times together. I never felt like I'm with a bad person. -I think he's unlucky. I think he's unlucky.
-We were so happy when he met Kim Lark, his wife. They went skiing together. They loved dogs together.
I had not seen him so happy in all these years that we've known him. -I think Jon Green saw Dr. Kim and saw dollar signs.
-You think he targeted her? -Yeah, I do. -It all turned sour really quick. They were not only separating, but he took the dogs.
-She loves her dogs. Those are her babies. It's like if he had taken her children.
-He's stealing your dogs. He's kidnapping your dogs? -Oh, I was scared to death that he would get rid of them.
-Now it became just one thing after another. He's on the road. On the road and on the run.
-With the dogs. -He's actually arrested in San Antonio. -He's a thief. He's a liar. A con artist.
-At Eddy County Detention Center, I met Jon, and he kept asking me if I knew somebody
that could kill his wife. -So, here's my husband in jail, talking with somebody about the various different ways
to kill me and take care of the body. -Do you believe that this was a real plan?
-Yes. -This isn't the first time he's been in question of a heinous crime. If he did it once, he can do it again.
-Who was this man, really? -He wasn't Jon Green. His real name was Ted Maher. And he had been convicted of an arson
resulting in the death of a billionaire. -So much of it still remains a mystery.
I mean, this guy's story is just crazy. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -Carlsbad, New Mexico,
a small city dwarfed by a vast, dirt-red desert, was home to Jon Green in 2017. That was the year a routine medical exam
would become a turning point for him and his new doctor, Kim Lark. The very first day when he walks in,
how would you have described him? -Smiling. Happy. Wanted to talk. Just kind of made you feel comfortable.
-Months later, they began texting, then dating. -He liked everything that I liked.
We started skiing together. We started riding bikes together. -Early in their relationship, Kim says,
Green told her about his troubled past -- that he had been falsely accused of arson more than 20 years ago,
causing the deaths of two people, including a billionaire banker in Monte Carlo.
-I believed him at first. I kind of believed his side of the story. -She says she wanted to believe the best
about the new man in her life. -He said all the right things. He did all the things that I needed my best friend to be.
-By the time they married on Valentine's Day 2020, they'd already settled into a comfortable life.
Kim had a lucrative medical practice, an $800,000 retirement account tucked away,
and a home on four acres outside of town. At that time, did you realize what he was capable of?
-No, I had no idea. -I think he's motivated by money, motivated by power. -Molly Forster, a documentary filmmaker
and CBS news consultant, has spent years reporting Green's story for a new series streaming on the EPIS online platform.
-He likes skiing. It's just like he was a chameleon. -She says the man who calls himself Jon Green
has led a life of deception. -He's been able to fool a lot of people and caused a lot of trauma.
-Trauma that would eventually crumble their marriage in just a few years, says Kim.
-Just because he's so willing to lie, cheat, steal. -In April 2022, Kim noticed her checkbook was missing.
-That's when the bank called me and said, "Hey, did you write this check?" -She learned that her husband,
seen here on bank security footage, was trying to cash thousands of dollars in checks
by forging her name at banks all over town. Kim filed for divorce and changed the locks on her house.
About a month later, he stole something else from her that mattered a lot more than money.
He's kidnapping your dogs? -My dogs and my vehicle. Yeah. -Storm, Zero, and Felony are not only precious pets,
they're extremely valuable, highly trained search-and-rescue dogs, says Kim. And she is their trainer.
-We have a really special bond. My dogs are with me 24/7. -For years, Kim and her canine companions
have assisted FEMA during national disasters and law enforcement at crime scenes.
-He could have taken anything except my dogs. -And Zero was pregnant at the time.
-I really was scared to death. -Kim believed her estranged husband might have taken the dogs to Texas,
and she found someone there who could help. Abel Peña had 26 years with the FBI before he retired and founded a nonprofit
called Project Absentis to help find missing people. What is the difference between looking for missing people
and missing dogs? -Dogs don't maintain a pawprint online. It's more challenging to try and find dogs.
-It was more than a month before he got a good tip, and it wasn't about the dogs,
but about Green himself. On June 13th, 2022, Peña called law enforcement for help staking out a parking lot in San Antonio.
Shortly after Green arrived in a BMW, authorities arrested and charged him with forgery and larceny.
He had changed his appearance, shaving his head. -I ran over to the vehicle, looked in the back windows to see if the dogs were there.
The dogs were not there. -But Peña had another lead and headed to a nearby house
belonging to the aunt of one of Green's friends. -I knock on the door, and I'm greeted by an older woman.
She was like, "I know why you're here. Come on in." -He found Kim's dogs in a back bedroom,
and by then, Zero had multiplied. There were now eight puppies in a box. And how did you feel?
-I was ecstatic. -Abel Peña took all 11 dogs to his house and waited for Kim to arrive.
-Look at what we have here. -Oh, my goodness! Come on. My girls were so happy to see me.
I was so relieved. -And it was a fantastic ending. -Good boy. -Kim was so thankful she named one of the puppies Abel,
after the man who had found them. -Bye. -Bye. Thank you. -See you later. -Did you think at that point you had it all behind you?
-Yes. -The forgery and larceny charges landed Jon Green here, locked up in the Eddy County Detention Center in Carlsbad,
where he met this man, Greg Markham, detained on drug charges. Was he angry with Kim?
-Oh, he was furious with her. -Markham says they bonded over a chess board. -I played chess with him every day.
Got to know the guy. He kept asking me if I knew somebody that could kill his wife.
-Greg Markham says he saw an opportunity to make Jon Green his pawn. -And I was like, "You know what, man?
I can't find anybody. I'll do it. How do you want it done?" -So, you promised to kill his wife?
-I said, "Oh, yeah, man, I'll do it. I'll do it for you." -Were you going to? -No! No!
-Markham says he's a con man, not a hit man, and was never serious about killing Kim Lark.
-I've been living on my own. It's me and my dog. -He desperately needed bail money, he says,
to save his dog, Atlas, from being euthanized. -I got to convince this guy to bond me out
so I can go take care of my dog, make sure he's okay. -He says Green paid for the bail.
-Once he was convinced that I was going to do it, he wouldn't stop talking about it.
He says, "Let's talk about it again. What are you gonna do?" -Markham says Green had a specific way
he wanted his wife to die. He concocted a lethal plot to poison Kim, forcing her to drink water laced with fentanyl
to look like an overdose. -Yeah, I was supposed to mix up fentanyl pills and make sure she drank the whole water bottle.
-If she refused, says Markham, Green's grisly plan was to aim a gun, not at Kim,
but at her beloved dogs. -And she'll do whatever you want done. -Jon Green fiercely denies all of it
and was determined to fight the charges against him, as he had before in another courtroom
on another continent. 26 years earlier, a roaring inferno engulfed a Monte Carlo penthouse,
killing the billionaire and his private nurse. At the fiery center of that mystery
was the very same man with a very different name. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -Sun-drenched, laid-back Carlsbad, New Mexico,
isn't the only place where this man made headlines. -One of the world's richest bankers died today.
-And it isn't the first time he was accused of a major crime. -An American male nurse...
-And Kim Lark is not the only woman who loved him. ♪♪ ♪♪ -I've saved every rose he gave me.
-Every rose he's given you since you've known him? -Yeah. [ Chuckles ] -It was 2002 when I first met Heidi Wustrau.
She was married to the man who would one day become Jon Green. His name then -- Ted Maher.
That name would become known around the world. The couple lived in New York and had two children together,
meeting in nursing school. -What kind of nurse is he? -He's a neonatal intensive care nurse.
Some pictures with kids, just some of the infants that he took care of. -Ted told her about his time serving
as a Special Forces Green Beret. He seemed defined by intensity and compassion. -He always put others first.
He was just so loving, so caring, you know? And I wanted someone like that. -His compassion was on display in the summer of 1999
in the neonatal unit where Ted worked, when two grateful new parents connected him
to the job of a lifetime. -To take care of a rich banker who we never heard of, to be his private nurse.
He had Parkinson's disease. -Edmond Safra was that rich banker. And he wasn't just regular rich.
He was one of the richest men on earth. The bank? Safra owned it, living with his elegant wife, Lily,
in this penthouse above this bank branch... ...here in the Monte Carlo district of glittering, diamond-sized Monaco...
...tucked along the exclusive French Riviera. -Obviously, we've never seen the world, you know, like that.
-So, when Safra made the offer, Ted couldn't refuse, says Heidi, despite having to leave his family.
-We thought, this is just temporary and we have the rest of our lives to get together afterwards.
-It was that October when Maher's fascinating new job brought him to Monaco. -It was just a different world, he kept saying.
He liked it. He liked Mr. Safra very much. They got along well. -Maher sometimes worked the night shift,
at times with nurse Vivian Torrente. Along with his private-duty nurses, Safra also kept a personal security force for protection.
-We didn't know who this man was. It was all new to us. -December 3rd, 1999. -I was getting the kids off to school in the morning as usual,
and I got a phone call, and it was Ted's sister, who sounded upset and crying. She asked me to turn on the news.
-Two masked men armed with knives invaded the Riviera penthouse of Edmond Safra.
-It was a startling report about intruders and a fire in the Safra penthouse. Just five weeks after her husband left for Monaco,
the billionaire who brought him there and nurse Vivian Torrente, were dead. Autopsies would determine they had both died
from smoke poisoning, and Ted was wounded and bloody. Ted would tell authorities a story
that would be discussed and debated for years. He said that intruders broke into the penthouse,
attacked and stabbed him, that he scrambled to get help while his boss took shelter in a bathroom.
Ted says he lit a small fire with a candle and paper towels in a trash basket, thinking the fire department would respond quickly.
-He knew the smoke detectors were direct access to the fire department, so he wanted to set that off.
-Back in New York, Heidi was worried, and she contacted Safra's office. She wasn't surprised at what she heard.
-They said that Ted was indeed a hero that night. I said, "That's Ted." -And within hours, Heidi headed to Monaco.
-I was to go straight to the hospital to see Ted. -Did you? -No. -Instead, soon after arriving,
Heidi says she was intercepted by police. She had been told that Ted acted like a hero.
That was about to change. As police questioned her, Heidi says it became clear they thought her husband might be a killer.
She alleges they took her passport and used it as a weapon against Ted. -When my passport was taken, they brought it to Ted
to get him to confess for this, and he was told then that I was strip-searched and tortured,
and I would not be allowed to leave the state of Monaco back to our family. -She said that threat caused Ted to falsely confess.
He would now say there were no intruders, that he had taken a knife and that he had stabbed himself
to make it look like he had tried to save his powerful boss from attackers. -They're saying he gave himself a lidocaine injection
prior to stabbing himself. -And lidocaine, what, deadens -- -Would numb it. -And Heidi says the confession he signed was written in French,
which Ted did not understand. -I feel they want a nice, clean ending to this, quick.
It would be good for the state of Monaco to have their citizens feel safe. -Ted was locked up,
charged with arson -- an intentional act -- leading to the deaths of Safra and Torrente.
He faced life in prison if convicted at trial. -This is someone I know, and I know he didn't do this.
♪♪ -Tonight's "48 Hours" will continue. -A family patriarch disappears. The blame game goes round and round.
-It's a homicide. -Absolutely. -Follow and listen to "Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel"
on the free Audacy app or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪♪ -With the strike of a match,
Ted Maher's dream job went up in smoke. Two people were dead, and Ted was now being blamed.
-I've known him now 13 years. He would never hurt anyone. -Monaco's chief prosecutor says an American male nurse
confessed to starting the fire that killed Safra and another nurse. -The death of Edmond Safra
exploded into a sensational story that would fascinate authors Jennifer Thomas and her husband Bill Hayes.
-If you saw this on the screen, you'd be going, "This doesn't -- none of this makes sense.
This doesn't happen." -There were allegations, none of them substantiated, that might have supported Ted's original claim about intruders --
talk that Safra had enemies, that he had been the victim of a Russian mob hit. -Safra had an awful lot of connections to Russia.
-And rumors were inflamed by a suspicious discovery. Heidi told us that the night of the fire,
Safra's private force of security guards were oddly not on site. -Was that usual? -It was unheard of.
-There were also whispers about Safra's stylish wife, Lily. -The rumors about her and her previous husbands.
-Lily had been married four times, with one other husband also deceased, prompting more conjecture.
-She is rumored to be a black widow who has inherited a lot of money from her husbands.
-But police believe Ted was responsible for two deaths. ♪♪ It would take three long years to bring Ted to trial.
[ Telephone rings ] -Hello? -Hi. Okay. -And in that time, Heidi was only occasionally able to speak to Ted
from his prison on the Mediterranean Sea. -I try to be strong because I know he needs my strength. too.
I love you. I just wish this wasn't my life. ♪♪ -We're going to the prison, the Maison d'Arrêt.
-New York lawyer Michael Griffith joined Ted's defense team. Griffith had made a name for himself
defending Americans abroad. Ted Maher became a client -- and a tough one. Let me go through some of the odd things
about this case. Is there any evidence -- other than what Ted said initially -- any evidence of two intruders?
-There was no evidence that I know of of any intruders. -Instead, Griffith would argue
that Ted did what authorities said -- he stabbed himself and set the fire, but that he never intended for anyone to die.
He was just trying to make himself look like a hero. -Ted is the fireman who started the fire.
Fireman who start fires do it not to hurt people, but to save people. -Are you saying that you believe Ted
actually did start the fire? Cut himself to make himself look like a hero? -I believe that's what Ted did.
-Did he actually tell you he did this himself? -Well, yeah, he told me that he did this to himself.
And that's the basis of our defense. -Griffith contends that no one would have died that night
if police and firefighters had gotten to the victims faster. It took them about two and a half hours
to reach Safra and Torrente, but authorities say they got to the scene in minutes,
but had to be careful and slow their response because Ted told them there were violent intruders inside.
-He's totally liable of the circumstances that he created. -In 2002, attorney Marc Bonnant spoke to "48 Hours."
He represented Safra's widow, Lily. He says the rumors about her are false. -Not only it's not true, obviously.
It is scandalous. Lily is devastated by what happened. ♪♪ -November 2002. Heidi traveled to Monaco as the trial began.
Ted was facing possible life in prison. -Do you think your husband will get a fair trial in Monaco?
-Not at all. -Why not? -They have the reputation of Monaco on the line, and they would never risk that.
-She wasn't happy when Ted testified that there had been no intruders and that he had, in fact, stabbed himself.
And she was furious that Griffith allowed Ted to take the blame for something she believes he didn't do.
Heidi believes with all her heart that Ted didn't do this, that he's being forced to say he did it.
I mean, what's the truth here? -Well, all I know is that Ted is my client. I know what Ted has told me.
-He was told this is the best way to go. -Heidi, I don't know what to tell you. All I know is I'm doing my job,
based upon what my client's told me. And I guess you're going to have to -- -And this is our life. This is --
-This is your life. -This is Ted's life. -Right. -Ted Maher was convicted of arson,
leading to the death of two people. -We have a reaction to the verdict. -Yeah, we were disappointed.
-He was sentenced to 10 years. -Heidi? -To Heidi, it was the end of life as she had known it.
-Yeah, she's -- she's upset. ♪♪ -And then in January, just seven weeks after the trial,
Ted called Heidi... from outside the prison. -Ted said, "It's me. I'm out." -He had cut the metal bars,
scaled down the prison walls, and escaped. -I said, "You're joking." And he says, "No, I'm out."
He asked for money, and I said no, and he got angry at me. -Ted's freedom was short-lived.
The next day, he was back in custody. Heidi was furious that he would risk so much,
including having his sentence extended. She says her faith in Ted had run out. -I don't need him and I don't want him.
I did the best I could to bring him home, but now it seems like he's doing his own job of screwing up.
-Heidi filed for divorce. As for Ted, he was released in 2007. When he landed at JFK,
the woman who had believed in him was nowhere to be found, but Ted would eventually find others in his corner --
those authors, Jennifer Thomas and Bill Hayes. Together with Ted, they would write "Framed in Monte Carlo."
Ted was back to insisting that while caring for Edmond Safra, he was attacked by violent intruders.
-What they had accused him of doing didn't make any sense why anybody would do that in the first place.
And so, everything he said made perfect sense when he told us the story. -What Thomas and Hayes found intriguing
was a report in a French newspaper. According to Le Figaro, at an unrelated hearing,
a judge who served on Ted Maher's case had claimed Ted's sentence had been predetermined
before the trial even began. And in your mind, the real story is this guy was set up.
-100%. -Back in the States, Ted was alone. Steady work, tough to find. Especially if your name was Ted Maher.
And that new name? -Jon Green. ♪♪ -Tonight's "48 Hours" will continue. -"48 Hours" is back. -I'm with "48 Hours."
-And so is the official after-show podcast, "Post Mortem"... -Great to be with you again.
-...where we bring you a closer look at each case. -This was one of the most emotional interviews.
-Follow and listen wherever you get your podcasts. ♪♪ -In his first 10 years back in the United States,
Jon Green tried to shed his alter ego, Ted Maher of Monaco. He found a new job driving trucks
and began a new romance with Dr. Kim Lark, who he went on to marry in 2020. But the marriage crumbled, and in 2023,
Green found himself facing a new charge -- solicitation to commit first-degree murder.
-Dr. Lark is a big name in this town. She's well known by a lot of people. -Green was still behind bars for forging those checks
and stealing the dogs when Detective Garrett Silva of the Eddy County Sheriff's Office
began investigating the alleged plot that Green made with his jail-mate, Greg Markham, to murder Kim.
-Greg Markham was hired by Jon Green to kill his wife. -It was a charge that Green vigorously denied
when investigators interviewed him in September of 2023. But authorities weren't persuaded.
Jon Green's trial began on March 3rd, 2025. Prosecutor Martin Wolfson called his star witness,
Greg Markham, to the stand. Kim Lark took us through the house where it was supposed to happen.
What's he supposed to do? -Turn off the power to the house. -I've been an electrician for 19 years.
I knew how to do that. -And where was he going to be? -He was supposed to be hiding in the carport.
-Now, this used to be a carport here. -Well, he said, "She's kind of pretty frail.
You're a big guy." -Markham says the plan was for him to overpower Kim and grab the gun she kept in the center console of her car.
-Apparently, he was going to bring me into the house. He told him how to control my dogs.
-Show it to me. Show me exactly. -Yeah, so you're raising your hands up as high as you can get,
and you yell, "Down!" as loud as you can, and slam your hands down, and then dogs stop,
and they won't move until given another command. -According to Markham, Green also told him
where he could find Kim Lark's safe. -And you would only know that if somebody told you that, right?
There's no way you would. -Yeah. -But defense attorney Blake Dugger told the jury
Greg Markham is no angel and that they shouldn't believe a word he says. -Greg Markham is an individual with a checkered past
who really tried to take advantage and did take advantage of Jon Green. -But the state presented evidence
they say proves Greg Markham was telling the truth -- a diagram Markham made with similarities
to the interior of Kim's house. He testified Jon Green had detailed it to him as part of the murder plot.
And prosecutors had evidence that Green was in a hurry to get money to pay Markham for the hit --
jail calls between Green and author Jennifer Thomas, who was managing his finances while he was behind bars.
Green called her multiple times, asking her to wire $2,500 to an intermediary. First, he said he wanted the money to buy a trailer,
but his story kept changing. Thomas eventually did what Green asked, but she was stunned
when she learned the prosecutors believed the money was really partial payment in a murder-for-hire.
You had gotten the money for him. -I was freaked out. -She said she and Hayes were relieved
when the D.A. decided they had not knowingly done anything wrong. Blake Dugger insisted his client didn't, either,
arguing even Greg Markham's diagram wasn't damning because it could have been cooked up
after a casual conversation with Green. Jon Green didn't testify, and Dugger didn't call any witnesses,
believing that prosecutors had failed to prove their case. After just two days, it was in the jury's hands.
-I was feeling good. I was feeling good. ♪♪ ♪♪ -The jury deliberated for only about an hour.
They convicted him of solicitation to commit first-degree murder. -His lying has finally caught up with him.
-Judge David Finger sentenced Jon Green, aka Ted Maher, to nine years in prison.
With time served, he'll be out in less than three. For nearly 25 years, we've had questions for Ted Maher.
New Mexico authorities barred our cameras from the prison. But in March of 2026, Ted's attorney, Blake Dugger,
arranged a video visit with him, and Ted allowed us to interview him. Did you try to hire someone to kill your wife?
Once again, Ted says he was framed. He would never instruct someone to hold a gun
to a dog's head, he says. And he claimed that he only gave Greg Markham the $2,500
to help rescue Markham's dog, not to murder Kim. But how, then, did Markham seem to know so much
about the layout of Kim Lark's house? -But this was the basic layout. -Markham made us a diagram, too...
-I knew where the keys were. -...and we compared it to the house itself. It wasn't exactly a match,
but there were disturbing similarities. It shows where the power source is. -Right. -And where the safe was.
Is that right? -Yes. -He did a drawing of her house. How would he have those details if you didn't give it to him?
-Then you had, like, a dining room. -Ted echoed what his lawyer argued in the trial.
Whatever Markham knew about the home's layout came from innocent conversations. In fact, he told us he was a doting husband,
devoted to making life easier for Kim. You said you loved Kim Lark. He admitted he forged her signature on a check,
but said as the marriage crumbled, he had no income and needed money. And he said he had a right to the dogs,
since his divorce settlement with Kim hadn't been finalized yet. Just like he once claimed in Monaco,
he told us he's an innocent and fundamentally good man, taken advantage of by others.
As you sit here today, do you feel responsible for Edmond Safra's death? But the couple who once believed
Ted Maher's proclamations of innocence... ...now wonder what really happened on the December night in Monte Carlo
that ended with the deaths of a billionaire and his nurse. -There is a chance in my mind now
that he did orchestrate that. -Bill Hayes still believes Ted told the truth about intruders attacking him that night,
but Hayes and Thomas agree that when it comes to Ted's plot to kill Kim Lark -- the plot they say he sucked them into --
he is guilty as charged. -I feel betrayed. -I would want to know why -- why you lied.
-And while we may never know the whole truth for sure, we found evidence that Ted had hedged
one of his most basic claims, which he repeatedly made over the years. Were you, in fact, Special Forces
and a Green Beret? You're saying you went through the training? Come on, Ted, don't double talk here.
So, you never served as a Green Beret? -If Ted Maher didn't give us a straight answer,
the Army certainly did, telling us, "There is no evidence that Theodore Maher served in the special forces."
-He's a thief. He's a liar, a con artist. -And Kim Lark says she's worried she hasn't seen the last of him.
-When he gets out, I'll be in trouble. -Does Kim Lark have a reason to be scared of you?
-There's no telling what he may do. -Detective Garrett Silva, who helped piece the murder solicitation case together,
was promoted to sergeant with a K9 unit. He told us that if he were in Kim's position,
he would keep a dog by his side for protection. And that's exactly what Kim Lark is doing.
-I don't trust anybody. I'm always on alert. -She told us Ted has demanded money as part of their divorce,
and she's infuriated. Kim admits that anger can be lonely. -Come on, Fel-bel. -But anyone who knows Kim knows...
-We're just going for a ride. -...she's never really alone. Kim, do they follow you everywhere?
-Yes. -Oh my God, that makes me laugh. -Dogs just want to be with you all the time.
-And you can trust them. -Yes. -Yes. -Okay. ♪♪ ♪♪

After a conviction in the arson death of a billionaire in Monaco, Ted Maher changes his name and puts out a hit on his estranged wife in New Mexico. He denies it all. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports. This episode aired on May 16, 2026. Watch more full episodes of "48 Hours" on Pluto TV.

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Brief Summary

Jon Green, aka Ted Maher, faces murder solicitation charges after a troubled marriage and a history of deception and crime.

Key points

Jon Green's Dark Side. Jon Green, charming on the surface, hides a darker truth beneath.
The Dog Kidnapping. In a shocking turn, Jon Green kidnaps his wife's dogs during their separation.
The Plot to Kill. Jon Green allegedly concocts a plan to poison his wife, Kim Lark.
Ted Maher's Escape. After being convicted of arson, Ted Maher escapes from prison but is quickly recaptured.
The Aftermath of Escape. Ted's escape leads to a fallout with Heidi, culminating in divorce.
Jon Green's Conviction. Jon Green, formerly Ted Maher, was convicted of solicitation to commit first-degree murder.

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