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A Greenville courthouse has the makings of a “Dateline” episode, involving an accused hitman, a local attorney shot and a mysterious, fatal car wreck.On April 18, 2023, attorney JP Baum was shot beside a car outside the Law Offices of Truluck Thomason. In a statement he released, he said, “My right lung collapsed. As I started to take what I believed was my last breaths in this world, I called my wife to tell her I was dying and that I loved her.”Nearly a month later, investigators arrested Travis Douglass, a Hilton Head man with no criminal record.The state says Douglass agreed to shoot and kill an attorney for his friend David Smith, an architect. The Law Offices of Truluck Thomason was suing him for more than a million dollars for construction issues.On April 18, 2023, video shows a man driving a recreational vehicle past the law offices, getting out, casing an attorney’s car and then waiting in the RV for three hours. Just before 7 p.m., Baum was shot while loading his car. His attorneys say he wasn’t the intended target. Detective Thomas Bixby with the Greenville Police Department said they found Douglass and the RV with the same distinct scratch on the side nearly a month later, about a quarter of a mile away from Baum’s home. In body camera footage, Douglass admitted to police that he was the only person to have driven the RV in the last couple of months. Police found a 22-caliber bullet casing that had been fired under the driver’s seat.Detectives say cell tower signals and receipts put Douglass at the scene of the crime and discovered the connection to Smith. They requested Smith’s Google searches. “March 6, searched for silencer design, 22 bullet dimensions,” said Bixby.That was along with searches for a different attorney and his home address. Baum’s attorneys say he’s similar in height and build.Douglass’ searches after the shooting caught law enforcement’s attention. “Can a thief steal a 2019 dodge ram without the keys, how to hotwire a Promaster van, where is ignition wire,” Bixby read.Soon after Douglass was arrested, the state says Smith’s Google searches, some of which were deleted and recovered, tell the rest of the story. “Maximum sentence for accessory after the fact. Travis Douglass. Fatal car accident Columbia. How long can you be detained without charges,” said Bixby as he read Smith’s search history.Detectives say Smith willed the house to his wife the same day Douglass was arrested. The next day, he died in a car crash, driving 105 miles per hour into a telephone pole. The defense says this is a coincidence. They questioned each witness, poking holes in testimony and tools used in the investigation to make a case there is reasonable doubt.