[narrator] Ramon Sosa is a boxer
and a mentor with a heart of gold.
[Ramon] Parents would tell m that I was the best thing
that ever happened to their kid.
Their grades went up, their self-esteem went up.
[narrator] Outside of the ring, he meets his match.
[Ramon] Lulu was very attractive, long black hair...
She was a knockout.
She was always dressed to the max with her high heels.
Her pretty dresses that caught his eye.
[narrator] But this brunette beauty
can really pack a punch.
Her mother whispered in my ear,
"She's your trouble now."
[narrator] Ramon is forced into the fight of his life.
[James] She was an attractive girl.
She was pure evil inside.
[Maria] She's putting our family at risk.
You know, I have children.
What kind of a monster is this?
[Ramon] Started boxing at about the age of seven in Puerto Rico
and then finally moved to Texas.
And I continue to box as a teenager.
I competed over 100 amateur fights,
turned pro at the age of 17
when I was still in high school as a senior.
It was something that I loved.
As a fighter I didn't look for fights,
in the streets, you know, if I saw trouble,
I'll walk the other way.
[narrator] In his 20s, Ramon marries
and has three kids, but the union deteriorates over time.
[Ramon] I used to travel, a lot
I had to go to a lot of tournaments,
boxing tournaments around the nation.
It puts a lot of, uh, stress on a relationship.
[narrator] In 2000, after nine years together,
Ramon's wife files for divorce.
[Ramon] When I first got divorced,
I was really, really hurt.
I didn't want to get divorced. I love my kids.
I wanted to keep my family together.
I grew up with, my parents separated.
Spent a lot of time with my dad on the weekends.
For a long time, I was his only little girl.
[Maria] His children are his life.
They're gonna come first.
But I think he was ready to enjoy himself.
[narrator] On a beautiful summer evening in 2007,
Ramon heads to Mi Luna nightclub.
[Ramon] This guy had told m about this restaurant,
The Woodlands, which is a neighborhood north of, uh, Houston.
In the evening, they... they played live music.
I pulled out a little Versace sweater
that I had, you know, thought it was like, cool, you know, looking nice.
And I went up there. The place was packed.
And I noticed this beautiful lady on the dance floor.
She had long black hair, beautiful skin, gee,
I remember her wearing a tight black mini dress and high heels.
She was a knockout.
Next thing I know, I see her coming towards me
and she steps on my toe.
I just went down in pain.
She started to tell me, I'm sorry.
It was in Spanish, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to, you know, step on you and all that.
And all I could do is look up at her
and just say, "Would you dance with me?"
So she kind of ask me what I did.
And I told her that I work with kids
and use boxing as a tool to keep kids on the right path.
And she loved it.
She said, "Oh, wow, that's... that's excellent.
Well, you're helping kids. And I love boxing."
[narrator] Maria Dorantes, nicknamed Lulu, tells Ramon
that she came from Mexico with her two children, Louis and Carla.
She cleans houses to support her family.
[Ramon] She knew how to work hard
so that she could make a living
to better her life
and her kids' life in this country.
And I was very impressed by that.
[Maria] He seemed happy.
He's got this big ol' smile on his face all the time when she's around.
I liked her a lot. I wanted to have her body.
You know, what do I have to do to look like that?
And we got along fine.
[Ramon] As a man, you know, you want to be treated right you know,
and I treated her right, too
Which is go way above and beyond for me.
When I get up in the morning,
she had a full breakfast set on the... on the table.
I was a king.
My mother loved it.
Someone's taking care of her son.
It progressed pretty quick
because she started, uh, supporting me a lot in boxing.
We dated for about a year and a half.
And I was, uh, beginning to think,
you know, this is the right person for me.
The day that I asked her to marry me,
I went down to one knee,
pulled the ring out of my back pocket,
and she just started crying and crying.
And I ask her to marry me.
Of course, she said yes.
And she was so happy, so hap that I asked her to marry me
I proposed to her, uh, that weekend
and the following week she was already making arrangements
for our... our marriage.
[Mia] We had no idea he was getting married.
We didn't even know he was gonna propose to her
I... I knew nothing about it
So that was like a gut punch.
And I remember crying and I was like,
"You know, what the...
Like what?"
[Ramon] We got married at the courthouse in Montgomery County.
And then after that, we had a get together at my sister's house.
My older sister, Mari,
she opened up her house for, uh, celebration of our wedding.
It was great having everybody over.
Our mother had cooked, uh, Puerto Rican food.
We danced and she danced with everybody.
And... and her kids were there.
Her mother, her brother-in-law, her sister.
It was... it was a great nig of partying and celebration
[narrator] But not for everyone.
We all decided not to go.
We were not interested.
Nobody was happy about it.
So, my brothers and I stayed behind.
[Ramon] No, my kids did not come to my wedding.
That was... that, that was very difficult for me.
I can't blame them for anything.
It was all my fault.
At that time, Lulu was trying to put a wedge between me and my kids.
[narrator] It was a warning sign, but not the only one.
[Ramon] One red flag,
you know, I said that bothers me
it was the day of our marria at the courthouse,
her mother came up to me
and gave me a hug and just whispered in my ear,
"Now she's your trouble," and walked away.
And I didn't think much of i
but she was trying to tell me something from the beginning.
[narrator] In 2010, Ramon and Lulu opened a gym together.
Woodlands Boxing and Fitness
-Hi, my name is Ramon Sosa. -I am Lulu Sosa.
Welcome to Woodlands Boxing and Fitness.
I was running my own gym
and I had a vision on how to run it,
where it could be prosperous,
she wanted our business to be successful.
And... and she would tell me you know,
I'm not stopping until we make this thing work smoothly
and we're making money.
It was all 100%.
Uh, let's do this and support each other.
He put a lot of energy, blood, sweat and tears into that place.
[Ramon] Well, I had a day job, too,
but then I always had time for the gym
'cause that was my biggest thing.
You know, I had to work during the day
and then training people till 8:00, 9:00 in the evening.
[Mia] He was also, you know living out his dream.
He had this so called beautiful wife,
he always would say.
And, you know, he had... he had it all.
[Ramon] We bought a big hous two storey home.
We have nice toys
and financially everything was great.
And it was also the happy times.
When... when she saw the money.
She was very, very mindful of everything that was spent
I mean, every receipt had to be accounted for, everything.
When it came to spending money on her and her kids,
there was never an issue.
But when it came to me spending anything on my kids,
I don't know what it was that bothered her so much about Mia
that... that she just hated that every time I brought her into conversation.
Mia was competing in a pageant.
Miss Teen San Antonio.
When I told Lulu that I was gonna buy a dres for her
and I told her how much it was gonna cost.
Oh, my gosh, she just went through the roof.
She said, "why... why you are spending all that money on her for?
She's not gonna win anyway."
I mean, who would say something like that, you know?
After our third year of marriage,
she applied for her American citizenship.
And I remember going to the immigration office
and signing a bunch of papers
so that she can become an American citizen, her kid
and she even applied for her mother.
So, they were all becoming American citizens because of me.
One afternoon I get home
and I see all these American flags
and, you know, looks like there was a little party at the house.
And she says, "Say hello to your new American citizen wife."
And I was so upset. I said, "Wait, wait, wait.
You mean to tell me that you guys had the celebration
and you didn't invite me?"
I would ask her very bluntly "So, let me get this straigh
You came to this country for one reason and one reason only,
to become an American citizen...
and become prosperous.
Get money.
And now that you have it, you know, you don't need me.
She says, "Look at me, look at me.
I'm beautiful. I can get any man I want.
But I picked you.
I picked you because I love you.
I love everything about you.
I could have had any man I want."
Now that I think about it they were probably having issues.
And he said, "Let me just take her on a trip to make her happy."
[narrator] Ramon takes Lulu on a vacation to Puerto Ric
to show her the island.
[Ramon] We having a good tim this particular evening,
we were on the bed at the hotel.
We're having drinks.
She was going through the social media
and she sees a picture of my daughter, Mia,
and she made a comment of, you know,
"look at your daughter looking like a prostitute."
I was like, "What did you just say?"
And she kept saying, "Well, look at her.
She looks like a little prostitute the way she's dressed."
[Maria] They get into an argument,
but to the point where, you know, I'm gonna call your mother.
Nothing she says to my mothe is gonna upset her.
But it upset Ramon that, you know,
why are you bothering my mother with this?
And she calls my mother
and I grabbed the phone awa from her saying,
you know, hang up the phone.
I hang up the phone.
And what does she do? She runs out of the room.
[narrator] A few minutes later,
there's a knock on the door.
[Ramon] So, security comes u and ask what's going on?
And then I see Lulu outside our door, the room door.
I look at her and I see tha
she has scratches on her hands and stuff, and I'm like...
"What happened to you?"
And I see that look in her face,
that she's up to something.
There's something going on.
[narrator] Lulu has made her first move
in a high stakes battle with Ramon
that will put his life on the line.
She had a plan.
From the very beginning I believe she had a plan.
He wasn't gonna give up easy
[Ramon] She just knew how to manipulate people so easily.
And I fell for it.
[narrator] On vacation in Puerto Rico,
Ramon Sosa is reeling.
His wife, Lulu, complains to hotel security
that he physically abused he during an argument.
[Ramon] The guard stayed with me inside the room,
he wanted to hear my version of the story
while Lulu was outside with the other security guar
And the security guard that was with me in the roo
said one of you guys is gonna have to sleep in a separate room tonight.
And I'll never forget him telling me,
"Watch out for that lady."
The next morning after we ha that incident in Puerto Rico
I was in the lobby
and then Lulu walked up to m and she had her luggage.
And I noticed that she had some kind of paper, an envelope.
And she showed me that it was a, uh...
a report that she had written out
of what happened the previous night.
And I looked at it and I was very, very, very upset
because it was all a lie.
She was just trying to get me into trouble.
In the plane we were sitting next to each other.
And I'll never forget she fell asleep with her hea on my shoulder
and she had her hand crossed on her lap.
I was just staring at her hands with those scratches.
And I'm like, "This is one crazy lady, you know."
[Maria] I think Ramon is one that always,
uh, puts a good face to everything.
And he wanted to make this work.
He tried his best.
I could see him putting a lot of effort into,
you know, things working out.
I just saw more tension,
less smiling, less getting together with everybody.
And you could tell, you can see her facial expression
that there was higher tension.
Ramon, too.
You could see that they were trying to avoid each other.
[narrator] Holding on to hop for his relationship,
Ramon books a second vacatio
This time to Mexico.
So, he and Lulu can visit her family.
[Ramon] She had detailed every location
that we were supposed to go to,
and she has specific places that she wanted...
she wanted to take me.
There was one particular location
that she had on the itinerary, a place called Tepito.
[narrator] Ramon has never heard of Tepito,
but he gets a gut instinct that it's a place he shouldn't visit.
[man] Tepito in Mexico City
Arguably the most dangerous black market in the world.
[Ramon] She told me that it was a location
where there's a lot of poor people that live there,
but you can find anything you want to slot knock offs
that people make there and they're very cheap.
And I was like, "Why do you want to take me there?"
And thank God that we never went.
And later on, I understand why.
[narrator] Back in Texas, things go from bad to worse as the fighting continues.
[Ramon] I was at home with her son
and we got into a back and forth, we had issues.
We had a lot of issues with school,
uh, misbehaving and getting in trouble,
hanging out with the wrong kind of peopl
So, I was very, very tired of his shenanigans.
I never put a hand on him,
but I always got very, very close to him
and it was on his face and he just broke down,
started crying and went upstairs to his room.
Later on, that afternoon, Lulu walked into the house.
I was just watching my boxing match and out of nowhere...
she throws a right hand.
You know, in boxing, we have this saying
that the punch that hurts the most is the punch that you don't see.
She busted my lip.
I believe she was looking for me to retaliate,
to find a way to have me arrested
or some kind of way have me taken out of the home.
But I wasn't gonna hit her.
So, I just went to the bathroom
and just stared at myself,
looking at the blood, you know,
coming down the side of my mouth,
asking myself...
what kind of relationship have I gotten myself into.
And I believe that
she just was using me,
and there's no other way of putting it.
And once she found a way to get, you know,
everything she wanted from m and as quick as she did.
See, I don't need you anymore.
[narrator] From here things escalate quickly.
[Ramon] You know, she starte to spread false rumors about me
to members around the gym,
telling them that I was abusive,
physically, mentally abusing her kids,
that I was a drunk.
And then she's telling parents of kids from a nonprofit,
don't believe everything that I say.
I'm embezzling money. I'm not what they think.
It was... it was just enough
you know, for me to say, you know what,
this is not gonna work out.
So finally, February 2015,
I get served with divorce papers.
[narrator] What's worse.
Lulu still shows up at the gym every day.
Even though we were working in the same gym and...
it was like oil and water.
[narrator] Just when Ramon hits his lowest point,
he reconnects with an old friend from the gym.
His name is Mundo.
[Ramon] He wanted to be a boxer
when he was young or be involved with boxing,
but he never had the opportunity.
He lived in the east side of Houston at the time.
When he was young growing up
he... he got involved with gangs.
Then later on, he was in prison.
But he's a very, very tough guy, you know, but...
when he came out of prison, he wanted to change his life.
And when he became part of my team
with the kids at the gym, the kids loved him.
He changed his whole life around.
My dad, he would pick us up from school
and then take us to the gym.
That's how I met Mundo.
He was just one of the guys my dad trained.
I mean, all right, he would talk to us.
He was nice.
I think Mundo is, uh,
someone that's real grateful
to what Ramon, you know, did for him in the time
that he was having difficulties.
He appreciates the help Ramon gave him and the guidance.
[narrator] But Lulu is about to test the limits of Mundo's loyalty.
[Ramon] He started helping u on the weekend.
When she found out how beneficial he was to us
she started liking Mundo.
Lulu starts having a lot mor conversations with Mundo.
It got his ears perked up
when he starts hearing Lulu making fun of Ramon
and, you know, saying all kinds of ugly things about Ramon.
[Ramon] I was driving home this particular morning
and I get a phone call from Mundo.
I answered and said, "Hey, what's going on, Mundo
And Mundo says...
"Hey, Pops, I got some hard news for you.
Lulu wants you dead."
Mundo overheard Lulu's daughter telling Lulu that
there was a kid in the gym that has a family member
in Mexico that kills people for money.
And Lulu responded by, you know,
maybe we can use him.
Mundo walked up to Lulu,
uh, and asked her, "You mean, you want him to go away like this?"
He made the pistol sign.
"You know, you want him to go away like this?"
And she said, "Yeah."
Then he said, "Well, I'll tell you what,
I got the people that can do the job."
And she said, "Okay, let's talk."
[narrator] But Mundo has a plan.
And after they talk, he calls Ramon.
[Ramon] He said, all I want to do is just have conversations with her,
meet with her and record everything
and see how far she's willing to go with it
Ramon and his wife have been having difficulties.
She called the police out there several times
alleging domestic violence.
And he called me one morning and said,
"Lulu is trying to find somebody to kill me."
I had seen enough of this la by that point to take this very seriously.
My advice was hang up right now
and call the sheriff, which he did.
[Ramon] I made an appointmen with the sheriff's departmen
and talked to the deputy, and he basically said to me that,
"Look, that's not enough evidence, you know.
You guys are going through a divorce.
She could be saying that just out of being upset you know, with you."
But if he's recording her
and bringing all those recordings in and then the D.A.
can make a case out of it or find some kind of cause.
But right now, it's just your word against hers.
[Maria] Mundo starts recording.
You know, she was making pla about life insurance.
It's all greed. It's all greed.
When I heard those tapes, I'm like, I...
I can't believe it.
I... I... I'm in shock.
[Ramon] There was one recording where she's laughi with Mundo.
-And giggling. -[Lulu giggling]
[Ramon] Telling Mundo like, "Hey, this is how I'm gonna cry."
When the police comes and tells me that he's dead.
[Lulu speaking in foreign language]
[Mundo speaking in foreign language]
And she started giggling.
So, she's already practicing how she's gonna cry.
And another one that really bothered me
was about the trip that we took to Mexico.
She tells Mundo that the plan was
that we were supposed to get abducted...
and they were gonna let Lulu go
and they were gonna hold me for ransom and then take me away.
The place, everything was gonna happen
was gonna be in Tepito,
place that I didn't want to go to.
You know, I've seen the pictures.
Uh, they seem very happy.
But when I heard one of the recordings
she mentions that
she just didn't have the hea to disappear him while they were in Mexico.
[Ramon] And here I wasn't having a great time with her family.
And in her head, she was trying to find a way to have me killed.
-[Lulu giggling] -[Mundo] Yeah.
[Ramon] This lady was very, very, very evil.
Mundo came to the point where he had to ask her for money.
He said, "I'm gonna ask you for money,
for a gun to commit the crim
And I'm also gonna let her know
that I have the people that are gonna do the job."
-[Lulu speaking] -[Mundo speaking]
[Lulu speaking]
-[Mundo] Yeah. -[Lulu speaking]
-[Mundo] Uh-huh. -[Lulu speaking]
-[Mundo] Yeah. -[Lulu speaking]
[narrator] Now Ramon has pulled into Mundo's plan
[Ramon] Mundo's told me, "Look, you know,
I need you to go buy a burner phone."
And we're gonna text back and forth,
and Lulu's gonna think that you're the hit man.
He told me, you know how to talk gang, you know.
You know, that... that language that they talk.
And, uh, and that's what we did back and forth.
I texted to her, "Are you ready? I need the money.
I need at least $200 to... to buy the toy."
And she said, "yes." It was intense.
And the whole time she had no idea that it was me.
And once Mundo got the $200
we thought that that was enough evidence
to take to the local police
When I told them the story, they separated us.
Me and Mundo, they heard his side of the story, they heard my side.
[narrator] The Houston polic bring Ramon and Mundo's
evidence to the prosecutor' office.
[Kelly] I first heard about this case was
when the Precinct 3 Constable's Office came,
um, to set up a meeting with me to talk about it.
um, Ramon had come to them
and reported that that his wife,
Maria Sosa, Lulu, was trying to kill him,
that they felt that Ramon was credible.
Ramon had some audio recordings between Mundo and Lulu.
Anything that Ramon or Mundo brought us,
a jury or a judge is gonna look at it with an eye of suspicion,
because it's not coming from law enforcement, it's coming from the person
who's actually involved in the case,
who has every reason to be lying or has...
who has every reason to set Lulu up.
[narrator] Prosecutor Blackburn decides to reach out to the FBI.
[Kelly] They assigned an FBI agent to...
to work on the case with us
Um, they have an officer that they want to use
to do the undercover work that has experience doing it
He's a Spanish speaker.
He looks the part, he plays the part.
But not only that, they have all the equipment
They have the undercover equipment,
the cameras, the microphone that you need,
the vehicles and the surveillance teams
that you need when you run one of these operations.
Until we can actually have Mundo
introduce our hitman to Lul
and see what she does and see if she actually even participates.
We really don't know, um, what we have at this point.
Once that did happen, it was a very quick meeting
in the... the parking lot of an academy.
Um, Mundo and our undercove officer drove to the academy
There was about a ten perso surveillance team that was..
that was surrounding them, um, set up all over the... the parking lot.
Mundo gets out and goes and speaks with Lulu.
Everything's being recorded
Everything's being videotape
It is a very fluid situation
Once they make contact with the target
and they're speaking with them.
You don't know how it's gonna go.
You don't want to entrap the person.
So, you have to be able to determine,
is this someone that really wants this done
or is this just a scared lady who doesn't know what to do
and is at her wits end because law enforcement hasn't helped her in the past.
Does she really want him killed
or does she just want him beaten up?
Does she just want him scared?
Our undercover was a big... a big guy, long...
long black hair, tattoos.
She loved talking to him.
She... you could tell she was flirting with him.
Um, it wasn't something that she was uncomfortable with at all.
He asked her straight out.
"Do you want us to just beat him up?
Do you want us just to scare him?
'Cause we can do that."
Her automatic response was,
"No, he's making my life miserable."
[man speaking]
-No. -[man speaking]
No. [Lulu speaking]
Once we heard that, we knew
that we were dealing with someone
who really wanted her husband dead.
Well, what makes this
a solicitation of capital murder
versus a solicitation of just murder
is that you're willing to pay someone to kill Ramon.
So, we had to have what's called remuneration,
something of value that
that Lulu was willing to giv
in order to, um, have Ramon killed.
In this case, um, the CI asked what she had.
She was able to give us watches, key-chains,
um, a diamond studded boxin glove of Ramon's.
She offered to let us have Ramon's truck
after we killed him,
and then she even went to the ATM and got out,
I believe it was $1,000 out of the ATM and gave it to us
So, at that point, she'd committed the offense
[Ramon] Lulu wanted me dead as soon as possible.
Her intentions were that
I was murdered before the divorce was finalized,
or else my kids would get everything.
So, she wanted me dead soon.
[Lulu speaking]
[man] Ah-huh.
-[Lulu speaking] -[man speaking]
[narrator] Lulu Sosa has just crossed a line by offering money
for a hit on her husband.
But the prosecution wants an airtight case.
So, one of the big hurdles that you always have in these type of cases,
once you get them into court,
is the defendant now saying
look, I never meant for this to happen.
I was scared. Once I got myself involved, I didn't know what to do.
And in this case, you don't have your defendants,
not a 6'5", 250 pounds man.
It's a small, petite, attractive female
who's going to look good in front of a jury.
[Ramon] They told me, here's the deal, Ramon.
You know, right now we have enough information,
enough evidence to arrest Lulu.
Uh, but the thing is that, you know,
she's a beautiful lady, she's a mother.
She has never been in any trouble.
And we don't want to take any chances of going to a jury trial
and have one of the jurors feel sorry for her.
We need this to be a slam dunk case.
[narrator] Prosecutors tell Ramon
that they need him to do one more thing to secure their case.
[Kelly] Depending on who your victim is
and who your target is, you can stage their murder.
I always want to try to put a photo,
um, that's a staged photo of their loved one
in front of them to see what their reaction is.
I was... I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
I said, repeat that again.
You want to take a picture of me dead.
You know, how is that going to work?
And he said, "We want... put some makeup on.
Take a picture and then we're gonna show it to her and record it.
And that's gonna be the evidence
that we're gonna show the jury her reactions."
They told me I need you to go home
and get clothes for three days because we are gonna hide you.
We don't want to take any chances of anybody knowing where you're at.
[narrator] Reluctantly, Ramon Sosa agrees to stage his own death.
[Ramon] I find out that these guys have looked up
how to make bullet wounds from a YouTube video
they had watched the night before.
And I couldn't believe it, you know,
but they made it look right.
I remember traveling to the actual grave-site
that authorities had alread dug up to take the picture of me dead,
thinking in the back of that SUV about my kids,
my mother, my father, my family.
How upset they were gonna b
when once they found out that I had to fake my death
so Lulu can get arrested.
When they put me inside the grave, they...
they told me to put my hand behind my back, close my eye
you know, put my head at an angle
where they can take picture and even threw dirt on top of my head.
I thought that was demeaning too,
you know, but, uh,
that's what they had to do to look as real as possible.
[narrator] Two weeks after first meeting,
the undercover agent again meets up with Lulu,
this time to provide proof of Ramon's death
and record her reactions.
[Kelly] So, it's just our undercover driving
to the same location, we pull up,
she jumps into his car.
She's not scared, she's not upset.
And he tells her that
they were able to do it successfully.
She asked him specifically, did he fight back?
Was it painful? Was he scared?
Um, so they talk a little bit about the murder itself,
and then he shows her the picture,
um, on his cell phone and she starts smiling.
[man speaking]
[Kelly] And as she's about to leave,
she says he's really dead.
He's not getting out of that hole?
[Lulu speaking]
[both laughing]
[Kelly] And our undercover told him, "No, he's not."
And that's when she basicall raised the roof with her hands.
I've never seen someone that joyous.
When Lulu realized to believ
that Ramon was finally dead, the expression that she had
and then what she did and how she acted, I've never seen that before.
[telephone ringing]
[Noris] I just happened to answer the phone at the office at the time
that she called
and she said, uh, Noris."
And I was like, "Who is this?"
She goes, "This is Lulu."
And she says, "Um, I'm calling
because a coworker of your brother's
called me and told me that they haven't seen him.
He has not been at work.
And that's just not like him
And I'm like, "What are you talking about?
And then, um, you know, I started texting my brothe
and texting him and calling him.
He would not answer. He would not text me back.
Kind of started getting worried, like, okay, what's going on?
And then finally I told one of my manager,
I said, "Hey, look, I need to... I need to go home.
I have an emergency."
And by the time I got over there,
the police, the ambulance and everybody was there.
We're like, "Okay, what happened?"
[Ramon] That afternoon, detectives go into the boxing gym.
They were investigating a missing person's report,
and if she had any informati
about where he might be
just to see what her reaction would be and how she would act.
-[man speaking] -[Lulu] Hi.
-[man speaking] -Yes. Sorry.
-Good. -Okay.
[man speaking]
-Uh-huh. -[man speaking]
[Lulu speaking]
[Kelly] The evidence that we're getting
is so we can show a judge and a jury
how manipulative she is,
how cunning she is,
how cold she is, and how good of a liar she is.
[man speaking]
[Lulu speaking]
[man speaking]
-[Lulu speaking] -[man] Okay.
[man speaking]
[Kelly] She now knows that she's standing in front of two detectives.
They're questioning her abou her husband's disappearance
That's the first time you see her getting rattled
getting nervous, shuffling through papers.
[Lulu speaking]
-[man speaking] -[Lulu speaking]
[man speaking]
-[Lulu speaking] -[man speaking]
[Lulu speaking]
[Kelly] She's still playing the part.
[man speaking]
[woman speaking]
-[man speaking] -[woman speaking]
[man speaking]
[man speaking in foreign language]
[woman speaking in foreign language]
[beeping]
[man] Get inside, ma'am.
[woman speaking in foreign language]
[narrator] Ramon Sosa is still in hiding
when he gets the news from the police.
[Ramon] Then I got the call they had arrested her.
And when I got that call, it was...
it was a mixture of emotions.
I sat on the edge of the bed
and tears started coming down my eyes.
And I can never explain why
I don't know if they were tears of happiness
or tears of anger.
[narrator] Ramon's family is still in the dark
and has no idea where he is
[Maria] Ramon never told me what the plan was.
So, I'm like,
"Why is she looking for Ramon?"
I started calling Ramon, paging Ramon.
He's not calling me back.
I'm starting to really worry.
They brought me back to the police station.
My story was headline news in Houston.
...hitman to kill her husban
...the investigators he was working with.
Sosa met with the undercove agent again.
[Ramon] As soon as I got, you know, my phone back,
I tried to call my mother.
[Noris] It was a breaking news on TV
with Lulu's face on it saying,
"hired to kill in Montgomery County."
[woman] 41 year old Maria Sosa is behind bars after deputies say
she tried to hire a hitman to kill her husband.
[Noris] My mom was hysterica
[Ramon] And my father answer the phone
and then in the background..
I could hear...
I could hear this, my mother crying.
Just, you know, the kind of cry you hear at funerals.
And, uh, it was very difficult to hear my mother,
the way... she was just crying and crying.
She thought that Lulu had killed me.
[Noris] And then everybody started coming
and my brother got there and he started crying.
And then Mundo got there.
And when my mom saw Mundo come in the door,
she just ran to him, hugged him and thanked him.
And she was saying to him, like,
thank you, thank you so much Mundo for saving my son's life.
[narrator] The Sosa family rejoices in the moment,
but is Ramon truly out of danger?
No one knows if Lulu will se someone else after him.
[Ramon] For the next few weeks,
I will sleep in my own bed with a loaded shotgun.
And I had a nine millimeter gun loaded in my vehicle.
I was like a ticking bomb at all times.
I didn't know what to expect.
I was very, very upset and anything can set me off.
I was afraid of myself, be honest with you.
[narrator] The next ordeal for the Sosa family is facing Lulu in court.
[Kelly] So, once she's been taken into custody
and charged with solicitatio of capital murder,
now the prosecution of her happens,
her case gets filed into court.
Is she gonna plead guilty?
Is she gonna want a trial?
And how much time she's gonna spend in prison?
[Ramon] I remember going to her first court hearing.
It brought me back to how she used to dress all the time
when we went out and how she loved wearing nice clothes,
nice heels all the time.
She looks always spectacular
She loved people to notice h when she walks in the room.
[Maria] Sad to see this beautiful woman in this jumpsuit.
I mean, it breaks my heart.
I don't wish that on anybod
to see somebody all chained up like that.
So, after the defense came
and was able to review all of the evidence against her,
they came asking for an offer.
And we were eventually able to agree to allow her to plead
to solicitation of murder
and receive a sentence of 20 years in prison.
[Ramon] There's so much evidence against her
that if she would have trie to go...
to go to a jury trial,
I think she would have received life in prison.
She never looked at me once
In all the hearings that I went to,
she never looked at me once
Her last hearing when she was sentenced,
uh, the judge, uh, let me speak.
And I remember saying to the people
that were there, you know, nobody in here is perfect.
We have all made mistakes.
We've all made mistakes.
And I told Lulu, I forgive y I told her, I forgive you.
[Mia] You know, I just couldn't believe
that he was saying that,
that he could forgive her
and that he was gonna be okay
and that he's gonna move on.
And, you know, how do you... how do you say that to somebody
who just planned to have you murdered?
But that was his way of moving forward
and that helped me move forward as well.
[Ramon] Once I forgave her,
I was able to walk out of the courtroom in peace.
The last thing I remember was the sound of the chains after that she walked away.
[Kelly] Ramon's done a really good job of workin
with the pro board and with the Texas Departmen of Corrections
and protesting her parole on multiple occasions.
She has not received parole and she's still in prison.
Hopefully she's learned her lesson
and the likelihood that she'll do it again or try to do it again is...
is very minimal.
But you never want to say never.
[Ramon] After Lulu was arrested,
people were scared to come back to the gym.
So, the memberships dropped tremendously.
[narrator] In 2017,
Ramon closes the gym and files for bankruptcy.
But even losing his dream doesn't dim his enthusiasm for his new life.
[Ramon] I was able to write a book,
I Walked On My Own Grave.
It has also helped me a lot
Writing that book, it's been great
to use my story for something positive.
And that means a lot to me now.
My relationship with my kid is a lot better now.
With Mitchell, with Cris, and with Mia.
I try to talk to them in just about every day.
That wedge that Lulu created between us was very difficult.
And again, I can't blame nobody but myself.
It hasn't been easy, but it has gotten a lot better.
I have three grandkids now.
They're my life.
[Maria] He's doing so, so much better.
And he's so, so happy.
Best is yet to come.
[Ramon] I am wonderfully in love with someone now.
I'm engaged.
Life is great for me now.
And I will forever ever be indebted to Mundo.