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Sometimes all it takes is one video, one reckless moment, one tap on post. In early July 2025, a Facebook video involving Allison Selenus began spreading online. What looked like a relationship drama was something far more serious. A public accusation that she had asked a former partner to help her husband. He didn't go to the police. He went live. And once it hit Facebook, it wasn't private anymore. Screenshots spread. Authorities took notice because once something like that is online, there's no taking it back. >> She lives in Pein. I live in Dallas, Texas. >> Okay. So, what happened? >> So, uh, this lady is pressuring me to find a hit man for her to cross. >> Okay. Do you know her address by chance? Um, not off the top of my head. I think I might have it in my phone, maybe. >> Okay. >> In the video released by her former partner, he said that >> every day since my call to the Peakin Police Department, I expected to get a call from a detective or maybe the FBI since her for hire scheme was across state lines. The days grew into weeks as I watched to see some news report about her being arrested. Instead, I saw a news segment about her cheating her bakery employees and lying about having cancer again. I can't help but notice some similarities between my situation and the murder of Patricia Mills in Victoria, Texas. She wanted me to do the dirty work and get rid of a human obstacle so she could be with me and get access to my money. I believe that Del was talked into getting rid of Patricia so Allison could be with him and get access to the life insurance policy he had on Patricia. Allison insisted that she had to be squeaky clean. There is a clear parallel. Allison is insane. She poses a continued danger to society. As the video spread, the internet reacted the way it always does. Shock, outrage, speculation. But behind the screens, investigators were watching. This wasn't just gossip. It was a public allegation of murder. While the shares climbed, the FBI began preserving and tracing what the public saw as viral. And that's when online noise turned into a federal investigation. >> Here's the thing about that. She was very, very careful not to send text messages to outline any of that. >> Yeah. >> There were two text messages that I included in that video that were vague. >> Yep. I saw those. Those were the only text messages that she ever sent on the subject. >> Okay. >> But the point was there, especially when combined with recording. >> Absolutely. And to me, this is just going to be um I mean, I'm still going to obviously try to get the full confession, but if I'm not able to get it, it's painting a picture and piecing all of it together. Like, yeah, one text message isn't going to send somebody to prison, but when you piece all of it together, it's very clear what her what she was looking to get to. >> Yeah, I [snorts] use I use Bluetooth earbuds with her almost all the time. Like, she would call me if I was driving or if I was working. And it took a while before I could get a recording that you could actually hear her voice on. Yeah, >> that one that that one that I put in the video is the best one. I have a couple of other recordings where you can only hear me and she's super super super faint. >> Okay. >> Um, so like if you turn it up loud enough to hear her, then my voice is kind of deafening and it's not pleasant to listen to. Allison was over at their house one day and was going through old photo albums and Allison found a picture of me said we still keep in touch with him >> and Alison said I want his number. So, I got a text from her 28 years later and this was several years ago and she was like, "Do you remember me?" And the I was like, "Yes, of course I do." And you know, we started talking. She told me she was going to be running for US Senate. Kind of thought, "Wow, that's ambitious." But >> yeah, >> um at any rate, she in the course of our conversations, she told me that she had been fighting cancer and that um she had cured it with uh her and that which to me doesn't sound real at all. >> No. And I know that there's been a long history of um like scams and fraudulent things that she's done in the past. Yeah. So, um, she called me up one day and she told me that her cancer had come back, that she had to have surgery to remove it to her, elsewise, she would die. So, she made the situation seem very dire. And she said that in order to have the surgery, she had to take a specific medication beforehand and that it was $600 to get this medication because she didn't have insurance. She said that she needed help with the money and I said, "Why not talk to your parents?" I saw that stuff and it just I I was floored. I was like, "My god, I can't believe she done all this stuff." Like all these people like all the events she sold tickets to, >> you know, hundreds of people bought tickets to and then the event didn't happen. She had like I think like a lawsuit some of her previous Senate employees sued her and I think they talked about the amount of money um in those four documents that she made from some of her dollars or alleged charities that never happened. >> But it was somewhere in the neighborhood of about $30,000 for one event. >> Wow. >> And I was just and I was just reading lists of these and what for me when I did the math that comes up with hundreds of people This is the she kept going on about it and that recording um that you've heard that was probably maybe the sixth or seventh time she had talked to me about it. So I knew that this was not a joke that it wasn't just a it wasn't just an I'm mad at let me theoretically talk about hypothetically coughing him. No, this was real. Did she ever talk about um means or how she would want to go about it? >> Yeah. So, she wanted me specifically to find a hitman. And at one point, I wanted her to just leave me alone about it. I did actually tell her maybe maybe one of my dad's friends knows someone. I don't know. I'll ask, you know. Um, >> did she ever after you said that, did she ever ask you like did she ever come back to you and be like, "Hey, did your dad get back to you yet or do do you know anybody?" >> Well, my dad my dad was deceased so >> and I don't even keep in touch with his friends. Um, but because they all live in Houston or San Antonio, I live in Dallas. >> Okay. >> Just basically say, "Look, I passed this on to somebody else. The ball is in somebody else's court. stopped asking me about it. That was kind of what I wanted to apply, but she didn't seem to get that and she kept asking me, "Okay, you hurt back on your dad's skin." >> Yep. And that was when I was wondering if she took that and, you know, saw it as a viable option. >> Yeah, certainly. [clears throat] And I told her flat out in that recording, I said, "I'm not going to have anything to do with it." And and she just did not get it. >> Oh, yeah. No, she definitely um even when you flat out say, you know, I'm not going to have anything to do with with this guy's murder, she pretty well just dances around that and just continues the conversation like, "Oh, well, I've got other, you know, I've got people that could help me pay for it, and I just need you to help me find somebody to do it." Yeah, she she did definitely did not take your uh >> This story didn't begin in 2025. It began 3 years earlier. In 2022, Allison Selenus, a married woman with growing political ambitions, reconnected with an ex, a man she had known in the past. What started as casual conversations slowly became more personal. Phone calls, text messages, late night exchanges. She was building a public image at the time, presenting herself as a future leader, someone seeking community trust. And somewhere in those private conversations, the tone shifted. According to investigators, it was during 2022 that Selenus began expressing a desire to have her husband killed. What may have sounded like emotional venting at first gradually took on the shape of something darker. Today, I break that silence. I have a significant piece of the puzzle to share with you. Many of you know she has filed for divorce twice. What you don't know is this. Both times it was because of me. No, I didn't tell her to do it. She filed for divorce both times because she wants my money. She has been trying to manipulate me for several years now, lying about practically everything. I'm no fool, though. I've been aware of her evils the entire time. Trying to scam me into marrying her so she could get my money isn't a crime. But there's a darker side. In the spring of 2024, Allison said about putting pressure on me to hire someone to end life. This was not a joke. She kept on about it for months. I called the Peacin police and filed a report with them on February 26th, 2024. I eventually downloaded a call recording app and recorded a call from her. I'll play some excerpts from that conversation. Now, >> that's why I asked you serious about this because I am. And if we we have to do this, right? >> This Yeah. So, I'm [clears throat] not going to be up there if anything happens, you know? I'm I'm going to be in Texas, you know, and this this isn't something that I need to be the one to organize, you know what I mean? >> Yeah. Okay. >> I mean, I don't want you to be coordinating it, but I I need your help finding someone. >> Well, that's not guaranteed. I don't know if that's a thing or not. I don't know. Are you sure you're going to be able to pay for something like that? >> I'm going to have to find it. I've got someone willing to help me with money, but they want to wait because we have to do it a certain way because it can't see that's the thing is it can't come out of anyone's I know's bank account like the money can't the exact amount of whatever it would be like you can't be involved at all. >> Yeah, I'm I'm not going to be involved. >> None of my friends can be directly involved. one one figured out how they can be indirectly involved, but cuz I should I'm watching know that they they're going to they're going to talk to everybody know. >> Yeah. >> And people get scared and people don't want to go to prison, so they spoil. So, you have to be careful. >> The next person investigators bring in is the woman who had been posting publicly against Allison Selenus, sharing allegations online and amplifying the controversy. According to investigators, she later became friends with Selenus's ex and helped him post the video through her account, pushing it further into the public spotlight. Now, police want to understand her role in how the video was shared, who had access to it, and what happened behind the scenes before it went viral. >> How did you first find out or even um anybody come to you with information that Allison might be looking to do something like that? got a hold of me for three through about the time. It's about 3 years ago. >> Um he had found my post on Facebook. He doesn't have Facebook, but a buddy of his was helping him look for things on Alice. she had gotten back in touch with him and he already knew about the murder in Texas [music] and >> um then he found my post of Oliver scams and he had his message me and um I waited about 3 months to call until I got a message saying you know he lives in Texas and if Alison's going to leave Illinois and go anywhere it's going to be Texas and I said oh god like I don't know if he knows exactly how bad she is so I called him and then we became instant friends like just not on Alison he's just a person. >> Yeah. >> So, um we've never met, but we've talked, you know, on and off for years. And then the day that she started asking him to do that, he called me and he was like, "What do I do?" Like, uh she's literally trying to have me kill and um she she's serious about it >> and uh I mean, on that tape, she has a plan. Did he tell you about the whole shellfish thing? >> Yep. uh he sent me both of the recordings that he had that were um that he still had that were good quality. Um and yeah, they she talks extensively about, you know, >> how she has to warm and different ways of, you know, and getting him away from the house to like a contracting job and all of that. Yeah. >> Um, how long ago was it that he got a hold of you the first time saying like, uh, she just brought this up and I don't know what to do. It >> was February of last year. >> Okay. >> Um, I think it was February. She was right around my birthday. >> Yeah. >> And, um, he just said, I have no idea what to do. And I said, look, he said, I know that in Illinois it's illegal to record a phone call. I said, you're in Texas. Yeah. >> I said, that's a one party state. They said, "Besides, there's a loophole in that law that states if somebody is trying to actively get you to commit a felony, >> you can go ahead and report it." >> And um he was like, "Well, let me figure out some apps and see if she ever talks back." He said, "I'm not going to lead her into that conversation." >> Yeah. But just if she ever >> and she didn't stop. And I'm sure you've seen the text messages. >> After you posted that video, did Allison reach out to you at all? >> No. Oh, no. I figured that's what I figured that she probably did not send anything to you, but >> and he's messaging me going, "Hey, call me. We need to talk." And I'm like, >> like, "I have other things going on." >> Yeah, I'm kind of busy, >> but what do you want? >> Mhm. >> And at that time, I didn't know that he was the one that made the recording. >> Okay. >> And he told me, and I said, "Why?" >> I was That's what I was just going to ask, like, why? >> Well, he told me why. >> Why? cuz he was mad and I wouldn't leave my husband. >> Okay. >> Like literally that was an Of course I erased the text, but I'm like I was so pissed that I'm like, "You know what? I've seen TV." >> Yeah. >> Let me give my phone to the police and let them pull that message back cuz I know y'all can do it. >> Mhm. >> And I'm like, "Dude, that better not." Cuz he said he was going to lie about it. I said, "I can erase all the messages I want, but they're still there." >> What was he like when you guys had that conversation? >> When we had that conversation and I said, "So, you recording me now?" And he goes, "Well, uh, do I need to?" And I'm like, "No, but what do you want?" >> Yeah. >> Like at that point, my middle daughter called me and said I couldn't see my grandkids. So by that time, I'm furious >> because of >> because of the Yes. Because of that. Yes. >> And I'm like, "That's my grandkids." >> Yeah. >> You don't screw with my grandkids. >> Like, no, they're off limits. >> Okay. >> So, I'm like, well, at first I thought Kate got on Facebook and said she reported was the one that posted it. >> She posted it, right? >> She posted it and um but I didn't know that he had sent it to her >> until I called him and I said, "So, what the hell were you thinking?" >> Yeah. >> And he said, >> "Do he know?" >> No. Like, >> he knew of her name. He knew of her name because of all the crap talking because me and him have had that conversation. He knows that. I said, "You cannot trust Kenually harassing me." >> And and I told him that >> and I said, "So your motive was what then?" >> Yeah. >> And he goes, "Well, I'm not going down for anything." I said, "So, you're not answering my question." >> Yeah. >> And he said, "Well, I'm pissed because you're still in." I said, "I told you I'm still married to I told you he's still in the house." Yeah. >> And I told you why. because originally he was in the house because well, he was there and we're fixing the house up to sell it because we wanted I don't want stairs anymore. >> Well, and I know that it's it's not just an easy like I'm married now, I'm not married. >> Right. And and I still didn't know what I was going to do. >> Yeah. >> Because I got my husband trying hard to make his marriage work, doing everything he can. The man I mean, you can't ask for any better, you know? I mean, yeah, we had our issues and yeah, there was some really close calls because I'm not going to be treated like that. >> Yeah. >> But it pissed me off that he did it out of vengeance. >> Yeah. >> And I'm like, so you did this only because you think I'm not going to leave him? >> And he said yes. >> Like he was questioning whether or not you actually care about him. >> And I'm like, dude, I was 17, you were 15. We've always had like a connection. >> Yeah. >> That's a long time. Like >> Yeah. If you're still I mean I get it. If you guys are still thinking that there's a thing there that >> and for a while there was he was going to move up here and we were going to be that was the whole point. Like that was it. >> Yeah. >> Here Allison Selenus is referring to her ex, the man she reconnected with in 2022, the same person who later contacted police and helped bring the video into the public spotlight, setting the investigation in motion. >> My husband had res factory reset it. He told me why, but I don't remember. Guy was in the hospital. Okay. And he had my phone the whole time. Like I because when And I'm glad because the hospital lost a lot of people's stuff. >> But I gave my husband my purse, my phone, everything. >> Yeah. >> And I said, "Here in the ER, >> just take it." >> Yeah. So just take it. I took my wedding ring off, my mother's ring, cuz I didn't want anything get lost up in the floor. And I'm like, I just keep it all. And kept it all. But I told him on the 10th, I said, cuz he said, "What do you want me to tell them?" And I said the truth. Like to me there was only one thing to tell them. >> Yeah. >> Which was I guess you was the other one that was calling him. >> Yeah. >> And I had to at least ask him. >> I'm like well at this point I'm like just tell the truth. That's all you have to do. >> And he goes so what is the truth? And I I'm like I'm confused cuz I know the truth and like you said he obviously saw it a different way. That's what I think. So that's why >> I think he thought that you were trying to tell him >> that I'm crazy and just >> Yeah. that like, oh well, just tell them that like, you know, I was just crazy and like, you know, just >> I don't know what I was doing. And >> yeah, like I think that's how he was interpreted. >> He might have interpreted that way. That's that's probably you're probably 100% right. >> I could see it too at first. >> Yeah. You looked at me funny and I'm like, what are you looking at? >> That's what that was the way that I had interpreted it. >> Like I almost got offended. I was like, did you just offend like someone that says they mentally checked out? But then I realized what you were saying. That's what I thought. I thought that you were just taking like zero accountability just like God no. God know I'm not that's not me. I don't care what people say on Facebook about me. That is not me. >> And that's see that's my biggest thing is through all the harassment and all the BS that they have even before this. It's been relentless. >> And but nobody's ever just sat down and talked to me. >> Yeah. And I'm like, all you got to do is sit down and talk to me. I'm going to open. Obviously, I'm going to open I haven't held back anything. >> No. >> And regardless of what my husband said I need to do, I think that's [ __ ] because then you're trying to hide something if you don't do that. Like, what are you doing? Like, just tell the truth. >> Yeah. I would have been concerned. >> Well, you'd have been like, "Okay, you're not going home today. Um, I think I might arrest you cuz you're weird. Um, and you're not answering things right." If you understand the background of it, then it makes sense. Or well, kind of. >> Explain it to me. >> Well, it just did. It is. I thought he just wanted a picture of him and I'm like confused. I'm like, why do you need like Okay. >> But that doesn't make sense with like what you said right afterward. >> Well, I was lost. I mean, not crazy, not insane. >> I just I can just see I can see perspective. But he already knew what he looked like. That's what I don't get. >> I know. But what I'm saying is I can see perspective of feeling like these were real conversations. >> Yeah. I I can I can I I'm not saying I can't. When I talked to him on the 10th, I'm like, "Okay, well, you as you you don't understand. This is where my head was." >> Yeah. >> And he's like, "Well, I don't buy that." And I'm like, "Well, I'm sorry that you don't think I was lost. You don't know everything. >> Yeah. >> That was going on. >> And that's it's just you were you were playing a very dangerous game. >> I I get it. >> That could have resulted in >> I get it. >> I mean, it could have resulted in the murder of your husband. Like that's the >> And I'm very glad that it didn't. I'm I'm very glad. But I It it still bothers me that he doesn't include the rest of the puzzle. Like there's so much of a bigger picture that I've already explained everything to you. The before and after divorce and and me sending where where ask him where where's the screenshot of her sending you the divorce papers. >> No. And I'm not saying that you didn't do that. >> No, I No. Well, I know I did. And and that's one thing. He's not going to lie. Like I've never really known him to lie. Ask him, "Did she send you a picture of her divorce papers?" He's going to tell you. >> I'll say, "Yeah, he was pretty like >> he's pretty straightforward." >> Straightforward. >> Yeah, he's pretty straightforward. He just and I mean I I probably don't even need to show you like cuz these were the like this is a transcript of the conversations that like he did send us in or he did send in and like I can see from his perspective like how he thought that that was where things were headed like them not having to basically test fire incriminate each other. Like, what is >> Okay, wait. I'm confused. Is this my phone or his? >> He took the screenshot and you sent that. >> I sent this. Okay. I just need to know who it was coming from. >> Yep. Sorry. >> Because it I didn't know if this was separate from that. >> Nope. Uh cuz just >> So, what were you what are you asking me? like why did you send that or like what was the context behind like why were you guys even talking about that like was >> I know this is a stupid answer but I don't know >> like I'm not saying I if if this is here and this is my this is me >> so obviously I sent it I'm not saying I didn't I just I don't remember I don't know why >> um >> so the only because obviously I had to look into just your whole past and stuff I know about like the Texas thing with with uh Patricia and all of that. I know you were never >> I did not show anything. >> I know. Don't get ahead of me. >> I get accused a lot of that on Facebook and it pisses me off. Sorry. I'm just I'm just not what he did was horrible. >> And don't like I said, don't get ahead of me. >> I'm not. >> Is with everything that went down with and Patricia, is that how like you even knew about this? Like just >> Yeah, because said one time a long time, you know what? Now I do remember it's cuz you sparked someone when you said that a long time ago. He said that's why he pushed to marry me. Except I didn't get it then. Like I didn't first of all I didn't know anything. I didn't have anything to do with they interviewed me 14 times and said the last time detective said the lead detective said if I thought you had anything to do with this you would not be going home today. Texas Rangers were down there. And I said, "Well, I didn't." >> And he said, "I believe you. You're going home." >> Yeah. >> I said, "Just because it's because it made me sick to my stomach." >> Yeah. >> The guy there was the main detective and it was I think it was his partner. >> I don't remember his name. >> I just know he had the coolest shades in the world. [laughter] I called him shades. And then there was it was the lead detective him shades >> shades >> and two well he had these >> there's going to be other things that stick out >> like it was it was cool shades I wanted his shades care about him I wanted his shades >> and tech two Texas Rangers >> in one room and they were all interviewing me was the last time they interviewed me and Texas Rangers were relentless on trying to like catch me up in something or whatever and I'm like >> but my story was the same because it was the truth and shades cuz I don't remember his name >> said told the man detective he said let me talk to her >> cuz I think he felt like he had a better connection like I was talking to everybody that would talk you know I didn't have a problem >> but shades it was just me and him after everybody left Texas R they were not happy they had to leave they just were not happy about that And I I didn't do it. He asked him to leave. >> Yeah. >> And he said, "Okay, look, Alison." He said, "I don't think you're seeing this the way we see it." >> And I said, "Okay, what does that mean?" >> And I don't always, you can ask my Please don't ask my husband. You My husband would tell you that I don't always see things for the way they are. like it's just my I grew up special needs too. >> I was in special ed classes. >> Not >> Hold on. That might be my husband. >> I'm just surprised that like you would even have those conversations with knowing >> like I said I became a shell of a person >> and mentally I was checked out. >> Yeah. If that hadn't happened, that wouldn't have happened. >> Yeah. It wouldn't have went down that way. >> It wouldn't It wouldn't have even been close to anything of the realm of that that if I wouldn't have been so checked out. And it wasn't even just That's the thing. It was I've held things in since I was 15 years old. >> I know. And I'm I'm sorry. >> My adoption, you know. >> Yeah. And I'm not saying that it doesn't stem from other stuff. It just was something that surprised me. >> No, but that's what doesn't understand >> is it's >> all this other stuff. >> Yeah, cuz he I mean he thought that it was >> and then he thought it was >> Yes. very much so. >> Sorry. That's my boss. I just want to make sure that >> it's like one of the TV shows. They step out and then they >> By the time this interrogation was underway, investigators already had what they needed. The Facebook video, the recorded phone call, and her own statements. What began as questioning quickly shifted once probable cause was clear. And in the middle of that interview, Allison Selenus was placed under arrest. >> Could have led to the murder of your husband. And that I mean it could have played out that way, >> right? >> And I know I can tell now just talking with you that's not where you're at today. >> No, I don't even talk now. >> I know. >> Like I don't have any reason to. >> I mean, part of me is pissed at him because he almost cost me my grandkids, but at the same time, I'm not pissed at him. Does that make sense? Like, I don't really care, I guess. >> Yeah. It's I'm out of space. Number one, I'm on medication, >> which I should have been a long time ago. I was a teenager and I took myself off of medication when I was 16 years old. But I guess what I'm trying to say is like there are there's still there's still consequences for having like those conversations. So, the seriousness behind how you were in the context at this point, you're under arrest. Is it too tight? >> Well, it it hurts my hands to be like this. >> Okay. I can get another pair of handcuffs if you think it would be more comfortable. >> Can I call my husband, please? >> Not at the moment. When Allison reconnected with her ex in 2022, she was still married. The old feelings resurfacing slowly turned into conversations that should have never happened. Over time, those words crossed a line from frustration to fantasy to something prosecutors would later call solicitation of murder. 3 years later, in July 2025, those private conversations exploded into public view. A Facebook video brought the allegations to light. A recorded phone call captured her admitting she had said she wanted her husband, even as she insisted she hadn't meant it. Selenus was charged with solicitation of murder. She ultimately pleaded guilty in court. For that decision, she was sentenced to 16 years in state prison, followed by 3 years of mandatory supervised release. She now claims her mental health was not properly evaluated before she entered her plea, arguing that vital information was never fully considered. But for now, the conviction stands. But in a motion filed in January, Selenus argues she was not examined for psychiatric illness, which she says she has a severe history of. She also claims her she could not give her mental health history when making her guilty plea. As of now, there is no date to hear those motions. >> No murder was carried out. No life was physically taken. Yet, the consequences were real. A marriage collapsed. A political future vanished. And a woman who once sought public office will spend the next decade and a half behind bars.

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