Le Roux ordered the weapons delivered from the Red White & Blue Arms warehouse. Hunter then set his charges up with more money, along with the weapons and a laptop bag "modified to hold the tool for concealment."

He also gave them detailed instructions on how to carry the murder out. They were to act as real estate buyers looking for property, and arrange to meet Lee in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant. "Get her into your car and take off so nobody saw you guys together," he told them. "As soon as she gets in the car, drive down the road maybe a quarter mile, about a half kilometer. Turn around and shoot her. It's done. Nobody saw anything. Take a blanket with you and wrap her up."

In early February 2012, Catherine Lee received an email from a Canadian man named Bill Maxwell. Maxwell said that he and his colleague, Tony, were looking to invest in real estate. They had searched online for a broker and found Lee, a well-known agent whose territory ranged throughout the southern part of the Philip- pines' main island, Luzon. A few years prior, she had served as president of her local chapter of the Real Estate Brokers of the Philippines. Lee was forty-three but looked younger, with a pixie haircut and a welcoming smile. She worked from her home in a house she and her husband had purchased not long before, with the help of a particularly large commission she'd earned. Much of her business came to her over the Internet—enough, at least, that she would be unlikely to think twice about scheduling a meeting with a client by email.

Bill and Tony didn't specify what type of property they were looking for; it could be commercial or residential, a vacation prop- erty or a ready-to-build lot, as long as it was a solid investment. For two days, she drove them from property to property, but the men weren't ready to commit. For their third outing, on the morn- ing of February 12, Lee met Bill and Tony on the outdoor patio of a Starbucks in Las Piñas, not far from her house. They were joined