"The Secret Life of G.I. Joe".
BERMAN: Coming up at the top of the hour, a truly mind- bending CNN special report, "The Secret Life of G.I. Joe." Last September, investigators north of Chicago were trying to figure out who killed the police officer known likely as G.I. Joe Gliniewicz. By October, they say they discovered thousands of erased texts revealing disturbing information about the man everyone had considered a hero.</s>PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: The messages that interest investigators the most are the ones that suggest Fox Lake's hero law enforcement officer may have tried to arrange a hit on the new Village Administrator, a woman named Anne Marrin. When you read the text, you saw he wanted to put a hit on the Village Administrator, what was your reaction to that?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Holy crap.</s>BROWN: Commander Filenko is talking about a Facebook message from early April of 2015. In it, Gliniewicz writes to a woman, "Being forced to retire by new village administrator. Work life has been a living hell the last two months. Close to entertaining a meeting with a mutual acquaintance of ours with the word white in their nickname." Investigators claim "White" is code for a high ranking gang member. Authorities say, when they interview the woman, Gliniewicz was messaging, she says that lieutenant told her, he wanted a gang member to make a hit on Marrin.</s>BERMAN: Pamela Brown joins me now. So Pamela, when did investigators start suspecting the Gliniewicz's death might actually be a suicide?</s>BROWN: The very first week, John. FBI, investigators, others, started having doubts but he was actually murdered by these three men that he radioed in about because of some inconsistencies at the crime scene. There were signs of a struggle because his equipment had been dropped, but yet his uniform was in perfect condition. His body didn't show signs of a struggle. In addition, phone records show that he was at the scene of where he died nearly 30 minutes before he actually radioed in to dispatchers. And so they were wondering, what was he doing in that time? Then they looked through his personnel file and there was a several accusations where he had drinking problems, there was a sex assault lawsuit, but really the game changer here, John, for them to reach this decision of suicide, was when they looked at those deleted texts. They saw that he wanted to put a hit out on the Village Administrator, that he was stealing money from the explorer account, this is a group of teens that he was training to be law enforcement officials. And that he'd set up a sham marriage for his son. Clearly this is not the man that they thought he was.</s>BERMAN: Yeah, I guess not. And clearly the investigation not over yet. Pamela Brown, thanks so much. Cannot wait to see this special. Such a fascinating story. I know we covered it here on "360." That does it for us. A lot going on tonight. Thank you so much for watching. We'll see you again at 11 p.m. Eastern for another edition of "360." And CNN's special report "THE SECRET LIFE OF G.I. JOE.'' Starts right now.