by three other real estate brokers she'd enlisted to help with the search.

The Canadians arrived in a silver Toyota Innova van. Bill was around six-foot-one, with a beard and a prominent belly. Tony was clean-shaven and wore a baseball cap. Lee took them to a gated community called Ponderosa, forty miles south of Manila, where they examined a lush lot available for residential develop- ment. For lunch they stopped at a nearby spot popular with the locals called Mushroomburger, where they were joined by two property owners Lee knew at around 3:30 P.M.

They then traveled to another piece of land eight miles away, in Cavite. They arrived at 4:30 and wandered around for an hour. When it was time to leave, the three brokers and the property own- ers departed in one car; Lee joined Bill and Tony in the Innova van.

Sometime in the next few hours, Adam Samia turned and leaned into the backseat, pulled out a .22-caliber handgun, and shot Lee twice in the head at close range. Then he and Stillwell rolled her up in a blanket, and deposited it in a pile of garbage.

Hunter, when he heard how they'd carried it out, was astonished that Samia and Stillwell had botched the killing so thoroughly. "What these guys did, they didn't listen to me," Hunter said later, captured on surveillance tapes. "They went to all these different houses with her, where there was people living in the houses. So every house they went to, people saw them together. They saw their faces. They saw the real estate agent. . . . They did this for like three different days. So like one hundred people saw them."

Le Roux had more targets lined up for the pair, including an- other former employee and a ship captain he believed had tipped off the authorities to the M/V Ufuk weapons shipment. But as Hunter later recounted it, their covers were already blown.

HUNTER: So I got them on the plane. They were Americans, so I got them back to America and then ah, I, I never . . . I didn't give them