Didn't pay attention until....
I didn't pay much attention to the Chandra Levy case. Just a bunch of normal events, turned into a story by cable TV.
Powerful asshole has affair and kills lover: Normal.
Powerful asshole gets away with murder because he's Democrat: Normal.
Non-powerful asshole ends up convicted because a jailhouse informant lies: Normal.
The latest twist is NOT NORMAL and requires major explanation. The explanation is not provided in the story.
Jailhouse informant gets out after long sentence; meets a "part-time actress" and gets to know her. Normal. Girls like tough dudes.
What happens next is the STRANGE part. Part-time actress has long conversations with jailhouse informant and RECORDS THE CONVERSATIONS.
WHY? The given reason is false. She wasn't recording the conversations because Morales "wanted to kill her ex-husband." He wouldn't "want" to do that unless she was paying him to do it. If he spontaneously "wanted" to do it, she would have simply called the cops and let them handle it.